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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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!

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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