TROUBLE IN MIND

posted on August 28th, 2017 at 9:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress takes a surefire theatrical genre (the backstage comedy à la Moss Hart’s Light Up The Sky or Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo) and transforms it into an examination of mid-20th-century race relations in Trouble In Mind, every bit as relevant at Theatricum Botanicum in 2017 as it was in its 1955 off-Broadway debut … and every bit as hilarious as it is thought-provoking.
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FOOTLOOSE THE BROADWAY MUSICAL

posted on August 27th, 2017 at 4:24 PM by Steven Stanley

Glendale Centre Theatre once again proves itself best-in-town in musicals-in-the-round with Footloose The Broadway Musical and Chaz Feuerstine’s triple-threat star turn in the role that helped make Kevin Bacon a household name.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

SILENT SKY

posted on August 26th, 2017 at 1:01 PM by Steven Stanley

Jennifer Cannon lights up the International City Theatre stage as groundbreaking astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, a hidden figure at long last given the recognition she deserves in Lauren Gunderson’s captivating Silent Sky.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

SUNSET BOULEVARD

posted on August 21st, 2017 at 6:31 PM by Steven Stanley

Valerie Perri reprises her Scenie-winning Musical Theater Performance Of The Year as silent screen legend Norma Desmond in Moonlight Stage Production’s stunning revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, directed (and musically staged) to mesmerizing effect by Larry Raben.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

LEVI KREIS BROADWAY AT THE KEYS TOUR

posted on August 20th, 2017 at 10:32 AM by Steven Stanley

San Francisco, (Seattle-adjacent) Everett, Nashville, and Lexington, KY are about to be treated to the same musical thrills and emotional chills that local audiences experienced last night at L.A.’s Renberg Theatre when Levi Kreis’s Broadway At The Keys Tour came to town.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

CIGARETTES AND CHOCOLATE & HANG UP

posted on August 19th, 2017 at 12:34 PM by Steven Stanley

And now for something completely different, Pacific Resident Theatre treats L.A. audiences to the West Coast Premieres of Cigarettes & Chocolate and Hang Up, a couple of Anthony Mighella-penned BBC radio plays from the ‘80s that add up to considerably more than a staged reading, slightly less than the “fully designed/staged production” that’s been advertised, yet one that’s every bit as gorgeously acted as PRT’s compelling best.
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WELCOME TO THE WHITE ROOM

posted on August 19th, 2017 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Theatre Of NOTE welcomes a generation raised on virtual reality to Theater Of The Absurd with the West Coast Premiere of Trish Harnetiaux’s overly cryptic but still mostly quite engaging Welcome To The White Room.
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SOUTH PACIFIC

posted on August 15th, 2017 at 4:58 PM by Steven Stanley

Stellar lead performances by Katie Moya and Michael Scott Harris are among the best reasons to catch Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s tuneful revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1949 musical dramedy classic South Pacific.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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