YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

posted on June 1st, 2024 at 9:55 AM by Steven Stanley


Few golden age Broadway comedies hold up anywhere near as marvelously as George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1936 classic You Can’t Take It With You, the playwriting duo’s laugh-packed look at a charmingly eccentric multi-generational family residing together in perfect, if oddball, harmony in a large New York City home in the mid-1930s.
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THE EXPLORERS CLUB

posted on May 28th, 2024 at 10:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Things get wild and wacky when a comely female anthropologist is proposed for membership in a heretofore all-male scientific society in Nell Benjamin’s madcap Victorian romp The Explorers Club, now getting a delectably acted West Coast Premiere at Theatre 40.
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MY WHITE HUSBAND

posted on May 27th, 2024 at 3:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Despite a promising setup, Leviticus Jelks’s My White Husband turns out to be an awkward mix of 1950s sitcom spoofery, marital discord dramatics, sex comedy raunch, network TV politics, and Black Lives Matter activism.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

MIX-MIX: THE FILIPINO ADVENTURES OF A GERMAN JEWISH BOY

posted on May 25th, 2024 at 11:58 AM by Steven Stanley


Prolific Filipino-American playwright Boni B. Alvarez takes audiences on the most thrilling and danger-packed of WWII escapes in Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy, a fact-based action-adventure epic as vividly cinematic as it is imaginatively theatrical.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

TWO STOP

posted on May 24th, 2024 at 11:40 AM by Steven Stanley


A Korean convenience store owner and a half-Black, half-Korean teen square off as the Los Angeles riots rage only blocks away in David Johann Kim’s you-are-there-on-the-edge-of-your-seat World Premiere drama Two Stop, the pulse-pounding latest from Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles.
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PANG SPA

posted on May 21st, 2024 at 5:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Chalk Repertory Theatre returns with its first fully-staged production since 2018’s Death And Cockroaches, an absolutely superb World Premiere staging of David Johann Kim’s mesmerizing Pang Spa.
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MISALLIANCE

posted on May 20th, 2024 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley


George Bernard Shaw fans won’t find a more sparklingly performed or exquisitely designed production of Misalliance than the one now playing at A Noise Within, and even if like me you find Shaw plays overly long and talky, this one’s suddenly zippy second act will have you singing its praises.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on May 19th, 2024 at 10:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Jayde Mitchell and Jackie Bonsignore and Bryan Mittelstadt and Margaret Berkowitz deliver four breakout star turns in the eighteenth production I’ve seen of Jason Robert Brown’s mesmerizing romantic musical two-hander The Last Five Years, Sierra Madre Playhouse’s first traditional stage production since its reimagining as a performing arts center and one I made it a point to see with two equally fabulous casts.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Two-Hander, WOW!

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