DIAL “M” FOR MURDER

posted on July 1st, 2017 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley

The Group Rep starts the summer off with a stylishly directed, classily designed, mostly quite well-cast revival of Frederick Knott’s classic 1952 thriller Dial “M” For Murder.
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LETTERS FROM A NUT BY TED L. NANCY

posted on June 30th, 2017 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Despite its inventive multimedia staging and Beth Kennedy’s kaleidoscopic supporting turn, the Geffen Playhouse’s wacky, wispy Letters From A Nut By Ted L. Nancy, even at a mere sixty-eight minutes, runs about half-an-hour too long, and with full-price tickets going for as much as $85 a pop, anyone minus money/time to burn would do better to order a copy of Nancy’s book from Amazon where used copies start at fifteen cents.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

THE WIZARD OF OZ

posted on June 26th, 2017 at 3:06 PM by Steven Stanley

The yellow brick road leads to Claremont this month as Candlelight Pavilion delights children of all ages (and that means parents and grandparents too) with the 1987 stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard Of Oz, a faithful scene-by-scene recreation of the 1939 MGM movie classic.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SEUSSICAL

posted on June 25th, 2017 at 1:54 PM by Steven Stanley

Theodor Seuss Geisel probably never imagined the day that so many of his creations—including an elephant who hatches an egg, a boy with a head full of “thinks,” and a cat (in a hat)—would end up sharing a stage together, but these are just some of the Dr. Seuss icons who light up the Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s absolutely splendid Seussical (The Musical).
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I AM NOT A COMEDIAN … I’M LENNY BRUCE

posted on June 25th, 2017 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley

Ronnie Marmo brings the ground-breaking standup comic legend Lenny Bruce back to scabrously funny, heartbreakingly poignant life in I Am Not A Comedian … I’m Lenny Bruce, the latest from Theatre 68.
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posted in North Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

LOVE IS A DIRTY WORD

posted on June 23rd, 2017 at 12:39 PM by Steven Stanley

Plenty of actors have stories to tell, and plenty of those may be as solo-show-ready as Giovanni Adams’ tale of growing up black and “sissy” in Jackson, Mississippi, but few end up as exquisitely written, stunningly performed, and strikingly designed as the Yale University grad’s World Premiere Love Is A Dirty Word.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

AIDA

posted on June 19th, 2017 at 4:23 PM by Steven Stanley

For a 1,852-performance Broadway musical smash, Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida: The Timeless Love Story has had few if any major SoCal stagings in the years since its 2000 Broadway debut, just one reason to catch Moonlight Stage Productions’ sensational big-stage revival under Vista skies.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

OKLAHOMA!

posted on June 18th, 2017 at 1:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Director T.J. Dawson takes a little-known bit of early 20th-century Oklahoma Territory history (its U.S. government-encouraged racial diversity) and reinvents the granddaddy of all contemporary musicals in 3-D Theatricals’ stunning 21-century revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

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