DRIVING MISS DAISY

posted on November 25th, 2017 at 2:05 AM by Steven Stanley

A revelatory Donna Mills lights up the Colony Theatre stage as the title character in Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning look back in time at an aging Southern Jewish widow and the African-American driver foisted upon her by her adult son in the years just preceding the Civil Rights Movement.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

posted on November 23rd, 2017 at 11:04 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s a new kid on the Garry Marshall Theatre block from now through December 10 as stage-screen-recording star Joey McIntyre takes on the lead in the Marshall’s deliciously entertaining, ingeniously streamlined staging of the farcical delight that is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.
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SOMETHING ROTTEN!

posted on November 22nd, 2017 at 8:47 AM by Steven Stanley

Something may have been rotten in the state of Denmark back when The Bard ruled London, but there’s nothing at all rotten going on at the Ahmanson Theatre as Center Theatre Group welcomes the Broadway National Tour of 2015 Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!, a musical theater buff’s dream come true and just as much fun for those who couldn’t put a last name to Chita, Patti, or Bernadette if their lives depended on it.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

ROTTERDAM

posted on November 21st, 2017 at 2:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Imagine that your husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend suddenly announced that they were no longer the person you believed them to be, could you still remain coupled, or would this be a deal-breaker? It is precisely this question that lies at the heart of Jon Brittain’s Olivier Award-winning Rotterdam, now getting a riveting, thrillingly staged West Coast Premiere at Skylight Theatre on Vermont.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

posted on November 20th, 2017 at 1:35 PM by Steven Stanley

A book and lyrics every bit as captivating in 2017 as they were when Broadway audiences first discovered them back in 1959. Tunes that make it clear that Richard was not the only Rodgers with a gift for infectious melody. A director/choreographer and cast more than up to the task of bringing said book, music, and lyrics to crowd-pleasing life. Mix all of the above and you’ve got Musical Theatre West’s one-performance-only concert staged reading of Once Upon A Mattress, one of MTW’s Reiner Reading Series’ very best.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

THE WILD PARTY

posted on November 19th, 2017 at 11:55 AM by Steven Stanley

Musicals don’t get much wilder, nor university productions much finer than the USC School Of Dramatic Arts’ sensational staging of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, concluding its sold-out five-performance run this afternoon at USC’s intimate McClintock Theatre.
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CHASING MEM’RIES: A DIFFERENT KIND OF MUSICAL

posted on November 17th, 2017 at 3:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Tyne Daly rises above the material she’s been given in Chasing Mem’ries: A Different Kind Musical, though if by “different,” book writer Josh Ravetch means clichéd, maudlin, sitcommy, and song-deficient, then this Geffen Playhouse World Premiere “musical” is indeed quite different from the rest.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

KING CHARLES III

posted on November 17th, 2017 at 12:00 AM by Steven Stanley

William Shakespeare is dead. Long live Mike Bartlett, author of Charles III, a “future history” The Bard himself might have written had he been looking back, not at Kings crowned Richard or Henry but at a 21-century monarch facing the crisis of his or any sovereign’s reign. Now getting a spectacular Southern California Premiere at a newly revitalized Pasadena Playhouse, King Charles III is the best play William Shakespeare never wrote.
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