A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

posted on March 26th, 2018 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

Actors Co-op brings 16th-century English history to vibrant life with their 21st-century revival of the 1962 Best Play Tony winner A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s thought-provoking if overlong look at Sir Thomas More, torn between moral conscience and political expediency during Henry VIII’s reign as King.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR

posted on March 24th, 2018 at 11:47 AM by Steven Stanley

Neil Simon takes us back to 1953 when Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows ruled the airwaves in Laughter On The 23rd Floor, his 1993 Broadway valentine to TV’s early years now getting a sensationally directed and performed Toluca Lake revival at The Garry Marshall Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

CABARET

posted on March 23rd, 2018 at 2:29 PM by Steven Stanley

USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory once again rivals the finest intimate professional theater in town with its all-around smashing student-performed, student-directed, student-designed revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb classic Cabaret.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BOOK OF MORMON

posted on March 22nd, 2018 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Six years into touring the U.S. and still going strong, The Book Of Mormon pays its third visit to the Segerstrom Center For Arts with an absolutely fabulous, almost entirely new cast, the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner continuing to entertain and delight audiences with its distinctive mix of raunch and romance, hilarity and heart.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

HENRY V

posted on March 20th, 2018 at 4:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Those who insist on three-plus hours of Shakespeare may well get their knickers in a twist over the sixty-some minutes chopped from Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott’s excitement-packed Henry V now on show at Pasadena’s A Noise Within. Not this reviewer, who welcomes not just its refreshingly brief two-hours-and-change running time but its multitude of action movie-ready thrills.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL

posted on March 19th, 2018 at 4:51 PM by Steven Stanley

Santa Monica’s venerable Morgan-Wixson Theatre once again blurs the lines between community and professional theater with the best performed of the more than half-dozen big-and-small-stage Little Women, The Musicals I’ve seen.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

AN UNDIVIDED HEART

posted on March 18th, 2018 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley

Pedophile Catholic priests and toxic waste-dumping chemical plants form the backdrop of Yusuf Toropov’s An Undivided Heart, a Circle X. Theatre Co./Echo Theater Company World Premiere that despite occasional tonal inconsistency and lack of clarity proves a powerful indictment of church-and-corporation-sanctioned abuse.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, World Premiere, WOW!

BINGO HALL

posted on March 17th, 2018 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

A high school boy navigating unrequited feelings for a female best friend while making college plans either to stay close to home or to travel thousands of miles away is a tale, if not as old as time, at least as ancient as the John Hughes 1980s, but it feels fresh and new when the high schooler in question has only ever known life on a New Mexico Indian reservation in Dillon Chitto’s World Premiere comedy Bingo Hall.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

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