OTHER DESERT CITIES

posted on September 4th, 2017 at 10:06 AM by Steven Stanley

Real-life sisters Ellen Geer and Melora Marshall and Geer’s daughter Willow play characters with matching family ties in Theatricum Botanicum’s superb outdoor revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities.
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SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE (OR GUESS WHO’S COMING FOR PASSOVER)

posted on September 3rd, 2017 at 2:57 PM by Steven Stanley

A Catholic mom, her Jewish husband and mother-in-law, and a couple of kids raised somewhere in the middle. Meet the protagonists of Gary Lamb’s Somewhere in the Middle (or guess who’s coming for Passover), a World Premiere Crown City Theatre Company dramedy that transcends its “Very Special Episode” premise to make for a discussion-prompting, terrifically acted look at the religious ties that rarely bind in today’s polarized world.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

posted on September 2nd, 2017 at 12:51 PM by Steven Stanley

The Brewster Sisters are at it again, bumping off their elderly male lodgers in the name of human kindness, in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s delectably performed, gorgeously designed intimate revival of Joseph Kesselring’s 1941 Broadway hit Arsenic And Old Lace.
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AMERICAN HOME

posted on September 1st, 2017 at 7:13 PM by Steven Stanley

Homeownership dreams come true, then fall apart in Stephanie Alison Walker’s overly ambitious American Home, whose intriguing premise and promising opening scenes soon develop into an excessively populated, tonally uneven, insufficiently involving World Premiere dramedy.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review

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!

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