IF I NEEDED SOMEONE

posted on August 6th, 2024 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Drunken hookups aren’t what they used to be, at least according to Neil LaBute in his undeniably provocative, bitingly funny, and potentially button-pushing World Premiere two-hander If I Needed Someone at Santa Monica’s City Garage Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on August 5th, 2024 at 4:51 PM by Steven Stanley


The volunteer performers lighting up the James Armstrong Theatre stage give the pros a run for their money in Torrance Theatre Company’s dazzlingly designed, imaginatively directed, and delightfully performed big-stage, live-orchestra production of Disney The Little Mermaid.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, WOW!

COMPANY

posted on August 3rd, 2024 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley


Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

CLUE

posted on August 1st, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

posted on July 30th, 2024 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre is back with an entertaining mid-sized revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the University of La Verne.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

THE PITCH

posted on July 29th, 2024 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley

A widowed single father finds himself in hot water with the IRS soon after embarking on a phone sales job he seems woefully ill suited for in Tom Alper’s overly padded but mostly entertaining The Pitch, an Odyssey Theatre visiting production.
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CREVASSE

posted on July 27th, 2024 at 3:51 PM by Steven Stanley


Adolph Hitler’s favorite filmmaker meets the man who made animated movie stars of Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi in Tom Jacobson‘s Crevasse, a fascinating, stunningly staged co-production of Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

INTO THE WOODS

posted on July 22nd, 2024 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley


There’s something particularly magical about Knot Free Productions’ intimate revival of Into The Woods at the Greenway Court Theatre, and as someone who’s seen 22 different live productions of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, I know what I’m talking about.
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