SWEENEY TODD

posted on July 21st, 2024 at 8:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Late 18th-century London is a living nightmare in Chance Theater’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and while the scaled-down revival’s pitch-black tone and bare-minimum number of players do not make it the best introduction to this Stephen Sondheim classic, there’s still a lot for Sondheim aficionados to applaud.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BAUHAUS PROJECT: BAUHAUS WEIMER

posted on July 20th, 2024 at 3:54 PM by Steven Stanley

Over the past two decades, Tom Jacobson has established himself as one of L.A.’s most adventurous and original playwrights, creating such risk-taking winners as Bunbury, Ouroboros, The Twentieth Century Way, and his extraordinary Bimini Baths Trilogy. I can’t, unfortunately, add Bauhaus Weimer, Part One of his World Premiere triptych The Bauhaus Project, to that list.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

PETER PAN

posted on July 18th, 2024 at 3:02 PM by Steven Stanley


You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

posted on July 16th, 2024 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Whether you’ve seen The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee umpteen times or it’s your first time at the Bee, I guarantee you will fall head over heels for the dazzlingly fresh reinterpretation it’s being given at Santa Ana’s The Wayward Artist.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

NEWSIES

posted on July 15th, 2024 at 5:57 PM by Steven Stanley


With Dillon Klena reprising his signature role to sensational effect and director-choreographer Jeffry Denman giving the production a fresh new look and feel, Musical Theatre West treats audiences to one of the best Newsies ever.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE

posted on July 14th, 2024 at 12:32 PM by Steven Stanley

Five years after his acclaimed star turn as Willy Loman, Rob Morrow returns to the Ruskin Group Theatre in another powerhouse role, that of Holocaust survivor-turned-New York publisher Isaac Geldhart in Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance Of Fire, a family drama unfortunately not in the same league as Death Of A Salesman.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB

posted on July 9th, 2024 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


A debonair British secret agent faces his evilest and most nefarious foe, i.e., his own alcohol, nicotine, gambling, and sex addictions (with anger issues thrown in for good measure), in Gregg Ostrin’s deliciously clever, fiendishly funny The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DESIGN FOR LIVING

posted on July 7th, 2024 at 6:17 PM by Steven Stanley

An Americanized trio of romantic protagonists and a gay subtext made explicit are two reasons Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s provocative but problematic staging of Noël Coward’s Design For Living is a far cry from the one Broadway audiences first discovered back in 1933.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

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