ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE

posted on February 4th, 2018 at 7:16 PM by Steven Stanley

Three generations of Marines serving in three different wars have their stories told in four distinct voices in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, the first in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” now making a lyrically told, gorgeously staged, superbly acted Kirk Douglas Theatre debut.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

DESSA ROSE

posted on February 4th, 2018 at 6:47 PM by Steven Stanley

A black slave and her white mistress become the unlikeliest of allies in the pre-Civil War South in Chromolume Theatre’s impressively sung Los Angeles premiere of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s gorgeously scored, problematically scripted Dessa Rose.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review

PIRATES OF PENZANCE

posted on February 1st, 2018 at 6:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Pasadena Playhouse is throwing a beach party and you’re invited to share the stage with the players as the audaciously talented young Chicago troupe known as The Hypocrites treat L.A. audiences to the fun-in-the-sun extravaganza that is their take on Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

RAGTIME

posted on January 30th, 2018 at 8:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Immigrants told to leave the U.S. and return to the “cesspools” from which they came. Blacks denied their basic civil rights. Wealthy whites still imagining an America in which neither of the aforementioned groups existed. If this sounds more like the stuff of today’s headlines than a twenty-year-old Broadway musical set over a hundred years in the past, all the more reason to celebrate the stirring big-stage revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Ragtime now earning standing ovations at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

NOTHING IS THE SAME

posted on January 30th, 2018 at 12:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Nothing Is The Same from the moment four 1941 Hawaiian preteens witness the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor one sunny December morning in the latest audience-pleasing entry in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s annual Field Trip Series, staged on school days to local kids and on weekends to general audiences of all ages.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HOTHOUSE

posted on January 27th, 2018 at 2:36 PM by Steven Stanley

The nuts are running the nuthouse in the darkly comedic, rarely performed Harold Pinter gem that is the latest from Antaeus Theatre Company, written when Pinter was a mere twenty-seven but shelved till he turned fifty, and perhaps more than any other partner-cast Antaeus gem before it, one that truly merits a second visit.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

posted on January 25th, 2018 at 5:11 PM by Steven Stanley

Shakespeare’s got the hots for Viola, only this time round it’s not on the silver screen but live and on stage as South Coast Repertory enchants audiences with Billy Elliot screenwriter Lee Hall’s theatrical adaptation of Marc Norman and legendary playwright Tom Stoppard’s 1998 seven-Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

A DELICATE SHIP

posted on January 23rd, 2018 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Questions of “What if…” haunt the memories of the trio of 30somethings who propel Anna Ziegler’s A Delicate Ship, the latest dramatic sensation from North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company and a play that will stick with you long after its final fade to black.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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