GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

posted on May 17th, 2024 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


A quintessentially Irish playwright and a quintessentially American music legend recall the bleakest days of the Great Depression in the most transcendent of new musicals, Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan’s Tony-winning Girl From The North Country, now touring the U.S. with a three-week stop at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

posted on May 13th, 2024 at 10:20 AM by Steven Stanley

Musical theater star Kelley Dorney captivates without singing a note in What The Constitution Means To Me, Heidi Schreck’s initially entertaining but ultimately long-winded lecture on the U.S. Constitution’s failure to protect the rights of women, people of color, immigrants, Native Americans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

AMERICAN MARIACHI

posted on May 13th, 2024 at 10:12 AM by Steven Stanley


A half-dozen years after its Old Globe world premiere, José Cruz González’s American Mariachi makes an endlessly entertaining Latino Theater Co. L.A. debut under under José Luis Valenzuela’s incisive direction at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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posted in Los Angeles, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on May 11th, 2024 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley


The Nocturne Theatre makes it four hits in a row with a terrifically crowd-pleasing, family-friendly in-the-round staging of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ‘EM

posted on May 6th, 2024 at 3:34 PM by Steven Stanley

How would you like to be trapped in a room with your first wife, your current wife, and the girlfriend neither of them knows about? That’s the dilemma faced by a comatose Thomas Axelrod in Lee Redmond’s Can’t Live Without ‘Em, an amusing World Premiere two-hour sitcom now playing upstairs at the Group Rep that I just might have enjoyed even more without its central conceit.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

DISTRACTIONS AT THE CRASH SITE: SHORT PLAYS BY STEVE YOCKEY

posted on May 3rd, 2024 at 4:56 PM by Steven Stanley

The seven one-acts that comprise Theatre of NOTE’s Distractions At The Crash Site: Short Plays by Steve Yockey are a mixed bag, and even at an intermissionless ninety minutes the West Coast Premiere runs about ten minutes too long, but Yockey fans will enjoy seeing the Wolves/Mercury playwright (and The Flight Attendant showrunner) in short-form mode.
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THE BALD SOPRANO

posted on April 29th, 2024 at 5:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco invented a whole new genre of comedy back in 1950 with his théâtre de l’absurde ground-breaker The Bald Soprano, and if its 2024 City Garage revival is still rough around the edges as of opening weekend, there remains plenty to entertain an audience.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

H*TLER’S TASTERS

posted on April 28th, 2024 at 11:49 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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