9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL

posted on October 29th, 2017 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley

A trio of resourceful secretaries put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs in the Broadway musical adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the terrifically entertaining latest from Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

posted on October 28th, 2017 at 3:25 PM by Steven Stanley

Decadence and deception prove downright delicious in The Antaeus Theatre Company’s pitch-perfectly partner-cast Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton’s 1985 stage adaptation of the 18th-century French literary classic directed with supreme flair by Robin Larsen.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

GEM OF THE OCEAN

posted on October 26th, 2017 at 8:06 AM by Steven Stanley

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson sheds informative, compelling light on early twentieth-century African-American life in Gem Of The Ocean, now being given an absolutely spectacular production at South Coast Repertory.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

HOME

posted on October 24th, 2017 at 12:40 AM by Steven Stanley

Onetime Vietnam draft dodger Cephus Miles has an epic story to tell, and told in a more realistic, straightforward manner, I might have enjoyed it a good deal more than the hour-and-forty-minute theatrical poetry slam that is Samm-Art Williams’s Home, a play whose flowery language seldom engaged me despite impeccable staging and performances at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

IN THE HEIGHTS

posted on October 22nd, 2017 at 6:24 PM by Steven Stanley

Musical Theatre West gives In The Heights, the thrilling, entertaining, emotionally powerful Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008, not only its first major L.A. County staging since its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda played the Pantages, its MTW debut proves the most brilliant of the eight productions I’ve now seen since that 2010 First National Tour.
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BRIGHT STAR

posted on October 21st, 2017 at 5:47 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s no brighter star lighting up L.A. stages this month and next than the dazzling Carmen Cusack, reprising her Tony-nominated star turn as Alice Murphy in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, a musical so stunningly staged and gorgeous to the ear that it’s easy to go easy on its Stella Dallas/Imitation Of Life-style soap.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

posted on October 20th, 2017 at 11:33 PM by Steven Stanley

Forget every A Tale Of Two Cities you’ve seen before, and that includes the 1935 MGM classic. A Noise Within’s United States Premiere of Mike Poulton’s thrillingly reconceived 2014 stage adaptation is in a class by itself, Dickens retold for a 21-century audience, instantly compelling, gorgeous to look at, profoundly moving, and as directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliot, the absolute must-see production of ANW’s all-around smashing Fall 2017 season.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

WICKED LIT 2017

posted on October 19th, 2017 at 5:33 PM by Steven Stanley

The Mountain View Mausoleum And Cemetery is once again the undisputed star of this year’s ninth-annual Wicked Lit, a venue so mysterious and spooky that audiences keep coming back year after year for the three-and-a-half-hour indoor-outdoor Halloween-season extravaganza.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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