LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on June 17th, 2017 at 1:39 PM by Steven Stanley

Elle Woods wins cases and hearts once again as Cupcake Theater entertains SoCal audiences with a dynamically performed Legally Blonde, marred on opening night by some serious technical glitches but worth a standing ovation for Arri Leigh’s star-making performance as the most bodaciously brainy blonde beauty Harvard University has ever seen.
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CONSTELLATIONS

posted on June 16th, 2017 at 4:29 PM by Steven Stanley

Ginnifer Goodwin and Allen Leech lend their considerable movie/TV star power, charisma, and talent to the Geffen Playhouse Los Angeles Premiere of Constellations, Nick Payne’s brain-teasing look at the multitude of possibilities inherent in a single romantic relationship.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, Two-Hander, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE PRIDE

posted on June 15th, 2017 at 2:30 PM by Steven Stanley

The Pride, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s provocative, daringly constructed look at the changes wrought over five decades of Contemporary Gay History, has at long last arrived in L.A., masterfully directed at the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts by its brilliant Artist-In-Residence Michael Arden.
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IT’S ONLY LIFE

posted on June 12th, 2017 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley

The dreams and searching and loneliness and blessings that make up this thing called life are highlighted in song in Art-In-Relation’s superbly performed, imaginatively directed intimate staging of John Bucchino’s aptly-titled It’s Only Life.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SPITFIRE GRILL

posted on June 11th, 2017 at 10:18 AM by Steven Stanley

A young woman fresh out of prison seeks a second chance at life in James Valcq and Fred Alley’s powerhouse chamber musical The Spitfire Grill, the gorgeously directed-and-performed latest from Solana Beach’s North Coast Repertory Theatre.
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CRIMES OF THE HEART

posted on June 10th, 2017 at 11:02 AM by Steven Stanley

The Mississippi Magrath sisters have set up housekeeping at Long Beach’s International City Theatre with all their quirks and charms and ups and downs intact in the best of the seven productions I’ve now seen of Beth Henley’s crowd-pleasing down-home comedy gem Crimes Of The Heart.
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NICKY

posted on June 9th, 2017 at 2:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Chekhov’s melancholy antihero Nikolai Ivanov is alive and well and living unhappily ever after in today’s Palm Springs as Nicky, the titular protagonist of Boni B. Alvarez’s rewardingly adventurous reinvention of a late-19th-century Russian classic.
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AVENUE Q

posted on June 8th, 2017 at 12:40 PM by Steven Stanley

A beefed-up cast of fourteen terrifically talented student performers and some inspired directorial tweaks make UC Irvine’s Avenue Q the best of the five productions I’ve seen since first discovering it on Broadway a baker’s-dozen years ago.
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