PICK OF THE VINE 2018

posted on January 15th, 2018 at 1:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Little Fish Theatre opens its 2018 season with its 16th-annual Pick Of The Vine: This Year’s Best Short Plays, the top 1.78% of a whopping 505 submissions, 9 mini-plays adding up to 1 terrifically acted, directed, and designed evening of theater at its most entertainingly eclectic.
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SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS

posted on January 13th, 2018 at 8:00 PM by Steven Stanley

A half-dozen enlightenment seekers head off into the woods for a five-day spiritual retreat where talking is taboo in Bess Wohl’s entertaining, touching, emotionally observant Small Mouth Sounds, now playing at Santa Monica’s The Broad Stage.
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posted in Comedy, National Tour, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

BUGABOO & THE SILENT ONE

posted on January 9th, 2018 at 6:01 PM by Steven Stanley

Marja-Lewis Ryan puts her own distinctive stamp on Women Behind Bars in the powerful Bugaboo & The Silent One, the playwright-director’s fourth and latest World Premiere collaboration with the astonishing Heidi Sulzman.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL

posted on January 8th, 2018 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley

A cast and production team only just entering their 20s proves a particularly fine fit—and more than up to the task of bringing Heathers: The Musical to murderously crowd-pleasing life at Thousand Oaks’ Hillcrest Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

posted on January 8th, 2018 at 12:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Newlyweds Corrie and Paul Bratter may have moved into their sixth-floor New York City walkup some fifty-five years ago but their story remains as fresh and delightful as it was when Neil Simon first introduced Broadway audiences to Barefoot In The Park back in 1963 in Glendale Centre Theatre pitch-perfect New Year’s 2018 revival.
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HOW THE PRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

posted on December 27th, 2017 at 6:40 PM by Steven Stanley

A triple-threat-tastic cast give the holiday-season-musical-spoofing Troubies’ How The Princh Stole Christmas their multitalented all (and the Prince catalog gives them plenty of hits to rock to), but with only a handful of recognizable characters and the thinnest of plots to satirize, the latest from the Troubadour Theatre Company falls short of the brilliance of previous Troubies greats.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY

posted on December 22nd, 2017 at 1:44 PM by Steven Stanley

Sierra Madre Playhouse has one terrific Christmas gift in store for you this holiday season, Philip Grecian’s lovingly recreated stage adaptation of the MGM holiday classic A Christmas Story, directed with equal parts love, imagination, and care by Christian Lebano.
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posted in Comedy, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY

posted on December 21st, 2017 at 3:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 18th annual potpourri of wacky Benny Hill-like skits, SNL-ready videos, Broadway-parodying production numbers, nostalgic recollections of Christmases past, and a whole lot of drag, the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy rated R-for-language and H-for-heart.
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posted in Comedy, San Fernando Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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