SHOUT SISTER SHOUT

posted on August 1st, 2017 at 3:30 PM by Steven Stanley

The cast is sensational as all get-out and the life story they have to tell, that of Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), is well worth a stage or screen bio, but the late great gospel/R&B pioneer deserves far better than the ill-conceived World Premiere musical Shout Sister Shout.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

NEWSIES

posted on July 31st, 2017 at 4:26 PM by Steven Stanley


The great big Broadway smash that is Disney’s Newsies is getting its first major Southern California regional production up at PCPA Solvang and what a sensational SoCal debut it is!
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posted in Musical, Santa Barbara County, Theater Review, WOW!

AS YOU LIKE IT

posted on July 30th, 2017 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley

The Antaeus Company transports lovers, philosophers, fools, royals, and audiences into the woods as Antaeus likes it, that is to say with two equally terrific casts bringing William Shakespeare’s As You Like It to magical, mystical, mesmerizing life.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on July 25th, 2017 at 11:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Moonlight Stage Productions treats audiences of all ages to its most kids-and-grownups-friendly Summer Of 2017 treat, a crowd-pleasing, big-stage, cartoon-turned-live-action production of Disney The Little Mermaid
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

DEAD BOYS

posted on July 24th, 2017 at 5:41 PM by Steven Stanley

An über-macho 20something and his not-nearly-so-manly former schoolmate find themselves possibly the only two people left alive on earth in Dead Boys, Matthew Scott Montgomery’s funny, touching, romantic, edge-of-your-seat hour-long look at racism, homophobia, and the apocalypse now.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

SEQUENCE

posted on July 23rd, 2017 at 9:48 AM by Steven Stanley

Lightning from up north strikes Beverly Hills for the second time this year as Theatre 40 follows January’s challenging-but-rewarding Late Company with another thrilling Canadian import, the West Coast Premiere of Arun Lakra’s brain-teasing, mind-blowing Sequence.
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BORN FOR THIS: THE MUSICAL

posted on July 22nd, 2017 at 10:09 AM by Steven Stanley

Gospel/R&B Grammy winner BeBe Winans tells his story, and his sister and recording partner CeCe’s as well, in Born For This: The Musical, a Broadway-scale crowd-pleaser now earning exuberant audience cheers at Santa Monica’s The Broad Stage as it did last year in Atlanta and DC.
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KING OF THE YEES

posted on July 18th, 2017 at 7:51 PM by Steven Stanley

Chinese-American playwright Lauren Yee pays affectionate, rib-tickling, ultimately quite touching tribute to her dad Larry in King Of The Yees, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere now both delighting and illuminating audiences of all racial-ethnic-cultural persuasions at Culver City’s Kirk Douglas Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

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