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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DAMN YANKEES

posted on March 15th, 2018 at 11:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre serves up midweek musical entertainment at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion with its revival of the 1955 Broadway smash Damn Yankees.
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CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND

posted on March 15th, 2018 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley

The Cambodian genocide may seem the least likely of subject matters for a raucous rock-music comedy, but this is precisely what Lauren Yee has pulled off in Cambodian Rock Band, her most accomplished, fulfilling play to date.
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posted in Orange County, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

posted on March 14th, 2018 at 12:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion treats audiences to a crowd-pleasing revival of Irving Berlin’s 1948 classic Annie Get Your Gun, the song-and-dance tale of legendary 1880s “cham-peen” sharpshooter Annie Oakley as reimagined by Oscar-Emmy-Tony winner Peter Stone.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

STEEL PIER

posted on March 12th, 2018 at 7:33 PM by Steven Stanley

Few musicals have faded into obscurity more unjustly than John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Steel Pier, just one reason to celebrate its two-decade-awaited West Coast Premiere, and don’t let the term “student production” scare you away. Though its cast may be younger than many of the characters they are playing, in all other respects this UCLA Department Of Theater stunner is second to none.
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UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY

posted on March 11th, 2018 at 1:27 AM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Wendy Graf proves herself as adept at the romcom two-hander as she is at her dark, dramatic solo pieces in Unemployed Elephants – A Love Story, a Victory Theatre World Premiere sparked by Maria Gobetti’s deft direction and a couple of couldn’t-be-better leads.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

EL NIÑO

posted on March 6th, 2018 at 6:17 PM by Steven Stanley

No one mines more laughs from dysfunction than Justin Tanner, and if you don’t believe me, check out the latest from the playwright who gave the world Voice Lessons, Teen Girl, Oklahomo!, Space Therapy and more, and whose latest, El Niño, proves the perfect Rogue Machine follow-up to the darkness and depravity of Ruth Fowler’s bled for the household truth.
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THE GRADUATE

posted on March 5th, 2018 at 7:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Melanie Griffith delivers a superstar turn as befits a Best Actress Oscar nominee, director Michael Matthews once again proves himself an L.A. theater superstar, and newcomer Nick Tag reveals emerging-star power in Laguna Playhouse’s The Graduate, a production so stellar you might just think you’re seeing a Broadway show.
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