A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

posted on March 4th, 2018 at 10:42 AM by Steven Stanley

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire undergoes a radical reinvention at The Theatre @ Boston Court where director Michael Michetti has transposed the seven-decade-old classic to 21st-century New Orleans to stunning effect.
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ALLEGIANCE

posted on March 2nd, 2018 at 5:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Allegiance has arrived at Little Tokyo’s Aritani Theatre, and if the feel-good Broadway musical about the forced internment of 70,000 American citizens and another 40,000 longtime U.S. residents tries too hard to be a crowd-pleaser in ways that the similarly fact-based Parade and The Scottsboro Boys did not, its East West Players debut is if nothing else a splendidly performed (and refreshingly homegrown) Los Angeles Premiere that scores bonus points for the light it sheds on a dark stain in American history.
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JACKIE UNVEILED

posted on March 1st, 2018 at 5:44 PM by Steven Stanley

Saffron Burrows grants Wallis Center For The Performing Arts an up-close-and-personal, warts-and-all tête-à-tête with one of the 20th century’s most famous, most speculated about, and most enigmatic of legends in Jackie Unveiled, Tom Dugan’s gripping, elucidating look at the woman who was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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THE KING AND I

posted on February 28th, 2018 at 6:22 PM by Steven Stanley

No matter how many The King And I’s you’ve seen, you have almost certainly never seen, nor will you likely ever see one more brilliant than the 2015 Bartlett Sher-directed Broadway revival whose First National Tour has arrived in Costa Mesa to thrill audiences this week and next at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A PLAY

posted on February 27th, 2018 at 6:42 PM by Steven Stanley

Del Shores, the man who introduced the world to Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies, and Daddy’s Dyin’: Who’s Got the Will?, now treats Celebration Theatre audiences to Six Characters In Search Of A Play brought to rib-tickling, side-splitting, occasionally tear-coaxing life by the playwright in one-man-showman mode.
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A WALK IN THE WOODS

posted on February 26th, 2018 at 5:46 PM by Steven Stanley

The Cold War arms race provides the heady backdrop for the latest Actors Co-op gem, Lee Blessing’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize finalist A Walk In The Woods.

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THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK

posted on February 25th, 2018 at 11:55 AM by Steven Stanley

Marc and Bella Chagall soar head over heels in love in Kneehigh Theatre and Bristol Old Vic’s magical chamber musical The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk, the latest bit of U.K. theatrical wizardry to pay a visit to Beverly Hills’ Wallis Center For The Performing Arts.
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THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST

posted on February 23rd, 2018 at 6:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes concludes her deservedly acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” with The Happiest Song Plays Last, its powerful Latino Theater Company California Premiere made momentous by the fact that Parts 1 at 2 are both currently playing in L.A.*
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