CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ‘EM

posted on May 6th, 2024 at 3:34 PM by Steven Stanley

How would you like to be trapped in a room with your first wife, your current wife, and the girlfriend neither of them knows about? That’s the dilemma faced by a comatose Thomas Axelrod in Lee Redmond’s Can’t Live Without ‘Em, an amusing World Premiere two-hour sitcom now playing upstairs at the Group Rep that I just might have enjoyed even more without its central conceit.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

DISTRACTIONS AT THE CRASH SITE: SHORT PLAYS BY STEVE YOCKEY

posted on May 3rd, 2024 at 4:56 PM by Steven Stanley

The seven one-acts that comprise Theatre of NOTE’s Distractions At The Crash Site: Short Plays by Steve Yockey are a mixed bag, and even at an intermissionless ninety minutes the West Coast Premiere runs about ten minutes too long, but Yockey fans will enjoy seeing the Wolves/Mercury playwright (and The Flight Attendant showrunner) in short-form mode.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Short One-Act, Theater Review

THE BALD SOPRANO

posted on April 29th, 2024 at 5:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco invented a whole new genre of comedy back in 1950 with his théâtre de l’absurde ground-breaker The Bald Soprano, and if its 2024 City Garage revival is still rough around the edges as of opening weekend, there remains plenty to entertain an audience.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

H*TLER’S TASTERS

posted on April 28th, 2024 at 11:49 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

NORA

posted on April 27th, 2024 at 12:54 PM by Steven Stanley


Housewives don’t get any more desperate than Nora, the up-against-the-wall protagonist of Antaeus Theatre Company’s enthralling, entertaining latest, Ingmar Bergman’s smartly streamlined take on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

PRELUDE TO A KISS THE MUSICAL

posted on April 23rd, 2024 at 9:18 AM by Steven Stanley


A gorgeous score, appealing performances, and a book that will have you reflecting on the very meaning of love are just three reasons to fall for South Coast Repertory’s World Premiere musical adaptation of Craig Lucas’s Prelude To A Kiss.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

JERSEY BOYS

posted on April 21st, 2024 at 7:48 PM by Steven Stanley


The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

TWELFTH NIGHT

posted on April 20th, 2024 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Actors Co-op gives L.A.’s top-of-the-line classical theater companies some stiff competition with their irresistibly entertaining, tunefully tropical take on Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools.
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posted in Classic Play, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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