RUNAWAY HOME

posted on October 17th, 2017 at 6:00 PM by Steven Stanley

A fourteen-year-old far too smart, self-assured, and resourceful for her own good takes to the streets of New Orleans three years after Hurricane Katrina lay waste to the city’s Lower Ninth Ward in Jeremy J. Kamps’ Runaway Home, a Fountain Theatre World Premiere that proves every bit as compelling a slice-of-post-Katrina-life as it is a bona fide crowd-pleaser.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

EXIT STRATEGY

posted on October 16th, 2017 at 10:54 PM by Steven Stanley

A longtime teacher’s unexpected reaction to the impending closure/demolition of the beleaguered Chicago inner city school she has for decades called home serves as catalyst to Exit Strategy, playwright Ike Holter and the L.A. LGBT Center’s gripping, gut-punching follow-up to their 2015 critical/box-office smash Hit The Wall, and one of Fall 2017’s must-see productions.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN

posted on October 16th, 2017 at 10:51 PM by Steven Stanley

Fans of Sarah Ruhl’s particular brand of whimsy, magical realism, and romance will fall especially hard for With Love And A Major Organ, Julia Lederer’s quirky, charming romcom now getting a playwright’s-dream West Coast Premiere at The Theatre @ Boston Court.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION

posted on October 15th, 2017 at 11:12 AM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within has once again done what it does best in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession. It has taken a theatrical classic of centuries past and staged it as if it had been written today, and with the always edgy Michael Michetti in the director’s chair, ANW’s slogan “Classic Theatre, Modern Magic” has rarely felt more apt.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, WOW!

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

posted on October 14th, 2017 at 5:32 PM by Steven Stanley

Ingenious direction and equally innovative choreography are just two reasons not to miss 5-Star Theatricals’ excitingly performed revival of Sirs Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 100 minutes of pure, unadulterated, family-friendly music and fun up Thousand Oaks way.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

VINO VERITAS

posted on October 13th, 2017 at 8:24 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s nothing like an exotic Peruvian wine to reveal long-hidden secrets when a couple of 30something married couples imbibe said intoxicant in full Halloween regalia at Theatre 40 in Vino Veritas, David MacGregor’s tantalizing look at two marriages for whom truth may be precisely what the doctor ordered, or the worst medicine of all.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

STUPID KID

posted on October 9th, 2017 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Folks are dumb where Chick Ford comes from, which is why you may be excused for assuming at first that Sharr White’s Stupid Kid has nothing but poor white trash jokes in store for audiences at The Road On Magnolia. But think again. Chick and his kinfolk are about to reveal far more about the Eastern Colorado Fords than initially meets the eye.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

posted on October 8th, 2017 at 6:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Inspired casting choices and Broadway-caliber production values make the latest from 3-D Theatricals the all-around best of the six Young Frankenstein’s I’ve seen in the seven years since its National Tour arrived first brought Transylvania to L.A.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

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