ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH

posted on December 15th, 2017 at 10:58 AM by Steven Stanley

Aladdin rubs his lamp and holiday magic gets made as Laguna Playhouse presents its third-annual Lythgoe Family Panto, the absolutely fabulous Aladdin And His Winter Wish.
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posted in Musical Spoof, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A CHRISTMAS ROSE

posted on December 15th, 2017 at 9:06 AM by Steven Stanley

Belle discovers the beauty beneath a monster’s fur and horns as never before in the family-friendly holiday treat that is Beauty And The Beast: A Christmas Rose, the sixth Lythgoe Family Panto to visit Pasadena and the first to play the historic 2,997-seat Pasadena Civic.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL

posted on December 11th, 2017 at 4:25 PM by Steven Stanley

Ralphie Parker sings … and dances … and wishes as much as ever to find a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle BB gun under the tree on December 25 in A Christmas Story: The Musical, the holiday season’s most tuneful treat for kids and adults of all ages up Simi Valley way.
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ASHES TO ASHES

posted on December 11th, 2017 at 2:02 AM by Steven Stanley

A divorced couple must spend 16 days, 21 hours, and 32 minutes in each other’s company or forfeit the $955,000,000 they’ve been bequeathed in Ashes To Ashes, Debby Bolsky’s entertaining, mostly successful screwball romcom, a World Premiere guest production at the Odyssey.
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DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on December 10th, 2017 at 1:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Some stellar lead performances and groundbreaking diversity in casting are the two best reasons to catch CASA 0101, TNY Productions, and El Centro Del Pueblo’s 99-seat staging of Disney Beauty And The Beast even without a key factor in the original Broadway production’s 5461-performance run, a production design sumptuous enough to inspire oohs and aahs.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE RADIO PLAY

posted on December 8th, 2017 at 6:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Both George Bailey and the actor playing him live across the land learn lessons about life, love, community, and Christmas in Jim Martyka’s doubly delightful, two-times touching It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, back for another December at Theatre Unleashed.
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A VERY DIE HARD CHRISTMAS

posted on December 7th, 2017 at 5:43 PM by Steven Stanley

A Very Die Hard Christmas, Josh Carson’s hit musical spoof of a certain Bruce Willis holiday classic, is back for 2017, sharper, funnier, and more outrageous than ever, and just what Santa ordered for those who like their year-end festivities to be naughty rather than nice.
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reasons to be pretty

posted on December 4th, 2017 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Neil LaBute dissects male-female relationships as only he can—savagely, but not without humor and maybe even a sliver of hope—in reasons to be pretty, his 2008 button-pusher now being given a dynamically directed, sensationally acted intimate revival at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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