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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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!

THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF BRIDESMAIDS

posted on August 14th, 2017 at 1:54 PM by Steven Stanley

UMPO at Rockwell does it again, taking a contemporary movie favorite and giving it Unauthorized Musical Parody treatment in a cabaret setting, and like UMPOs before it, The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of [the 2011 romcom smash] Bridesmaids proves a comedy-and-song-packed treat.
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HONKY TONK LAUNDRY

posted on August 12th, 2017 at 5:09 PM by Steven Stanley

SoCal musical theater stars Bets Malone and Misty Cotton bring their considerable comedic gifts and some of the best pipes in town to Honky Tonk Laundry, the latest jukebox-musical treat from Roger Bean, the Marvelous Wonderettes creator in down-home country music mode this time round.
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LAS GARCÍA

posted on August 11th, 2017 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley

A radiant, mesmerizing Gabriela Ortega tells two tales, one her own, the other that of her Dominican grandmother Cristina in Civil War-torn Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic circa 1965 in her captivating 50-minute solo show Las García, though Ortega makes it clear early on that she won’t be letting the truth “get in the way of a good story.”
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THE LOST CHILD

posted on August 8th, 2017 at 12:49 PM by Steven Stanley

An long-estranged couple, a mysterious waif looking at least half-a-decade younger than her eighteen years, and a Grimm’s Fairy Tale-style cabin in the woods add up to an unsatisfying mix of Unsolved Mysteries and The Twilight Zone in Skylight Theatre Company’s World Premiere production of Jennifer W. Rowland’s The Lost Child.
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