JEKYLL & HYDE THE MUSICAL

posted on April 19th, 2024 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley


Justin Meyer’s spectacularly sung and acted Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, Cassandra Caruso and Rachel Franke’s breakout star turns as the women in their lives, and a look inspired by such Hollywood monster movie classics as Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man make The Nocturne Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Jekyll & Hyde The Musical a song-and-thrill-packed treat.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

HIGH MAINTENANCE

posted on April 16th, 2024 at 9:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Christian Prentice dazzles as a state-of-the-art robot about to star as Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opposite TV diva Ivy Khan’s Nora in Peter Ritt’s High Maintenance, an initially captivating Road Theatre World Premiere that fails to live up to expectations in its romance-derailing, credibility-straining final scenes.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

posted on April 14th, 2024 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Dear Abby and Ann Landers could learn a thing or two from Sugar, the advice columnist whose empathetic, profound, deeply moving responses to folks in dire need of counsel make Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things the most heartstrings-tugging show in town.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

OPHELIA

posted on April 13th, 2024 at 12:04 PM by Steven Stanley


Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

KAIROS

posted on April 8th, 2024 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley


What starts off a meet-cute romcom ends up something a good deal more thought-provoking and profound in Kairos, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s intriguing examination of love, life, and the search for eternal youth, now getting a terrifically acted East West Players’ World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA

posted on April 7th, 2024 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley


What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Two-Hander, WOW!

FAT HAM

posted on April 7th, 2024 at 11:04 AM by Steven Stanley


Risk-taking, rule-breaking, exuberant joie de playwriting won James Ijames the Pulitzer Prize for his contemporary comedic queer African-American take on Hamlet, Fat Ham, now blowing audiences’ minds at the Geffen Playhouse.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, Visiting Production, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

FUNNY GIRL

posted on April 4th, 2024 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley


Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

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