APRIL, MAY, & JUNE

posted on April 8th, 2017 at 11:42 AM by Steven Stanley

April, May, & June may be more Lifetime Channel sitcom than Chekhov, but once the play gets past its expository-dialog crash course in four decades of family dysfunction, Gary Goldstein’s entertaining World Premiere look at three sisters so close in age they could almost be triplets yields its fair share of both laughter and emotional rewards.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

EVITA

posted on April 7th, 2017 at 9:53 AM by Steven Stanley

Just when you thought the life and loves of Eva Peron had been done to death, along comes director Tim Dang and choreographer Cindera Che’s thrillingly reimagined Evita, this year’s USC School Of Dramatic Arts spring musical, a big-stage production that differs from regional theater’s finest only in the youth of its sensationally talented cast.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

INTO THE WOODS

posted on April 6th, 2017 at 11:22 AM by Steven Stanley

Revivals don’t come any more thrillingly imaginative than Fiasco Theater’s brilliantly re-imagined Into The Woods, now paying a visit to the Ahmanson Theatre in a production no musical theater lover will want to miss.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SIEGEL

posted on April 5th, 2017 at 5:07 PM by Steven Stanley

An out-of-the-blue wedding proposal a full two years after a couple’s breakup is hardly a conventional way to start off a romantic comedy, but the originality of this opening salvo is just one reason why Michael Mitnick’s The Siegel is such a South Coast Repertory treat.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THIS IS OUR YOUTH

posted on April 4th, 2017 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Two decades before Manchester By The Sea won him a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, Kenneth Lonergan burst upon the theatrical scene with This Is Our Youth, the then 30something playwright’s funny, biting, perceptive look at three privileged but disaffected 20ish New Yorkers in the early Reagan ‘80s, a coming-of-age tale that now provides three 20ish L.A. acting up-and-comers with a terrific vehicle to strut their comedic-dramatic stuff.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review

MAN OF LA MANCHA

posted on April 2nd, 2017 at 11:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Stunningly staged and strikingly redesigned, A Noise Within’s Man Of La Mancha takes a half-century-old musical theater classic and gives it 21st-century relevance while reminding audiences why the 1965 Best Musical Tony winner has stood the test of time in a way the same year’s Skyscraper, Pickwick, and It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane…It’s Superman have not.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF COMEDY (ABRIDGED)

posted on April 2nd, 2017 at 8:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor’s The Complete History Of Comedy (abridged) has arrived in beautiful downtown Toluca Lake, the latest from Garry Marshall’s Falcon Theatre, and if there aren’t nearly as many chuckles, giggles, titters, and guffaws as audiences might wish, more of its jokes hit the mark than fizzle.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review

RULES OF SECONDS

posted on March 31st, 2017 at 5:08 PM by Steven Stanley

With Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr dueling it out eight times a week on Broadway, the timing could not be more auspicious for John Pollono’s audacious, irreverent, wholly original Rules Of Seconds, now playing at DTLA’s Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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