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!

BUILDING THE WALL

posted on March 28th, 2017 at 12:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Donald Trump’s campaign promise to rid America of its millions upon millions of “illegal aliens” reaches extremes that would do a certain WWII dictator proud in Building The Wall, Robert Schenkkan’s ham-fisted “It darn well could happen here!” two-hander now getting the first of a series of rolling World Premieres at the usually laudable Fountain Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

LITTLE CHILDREN DREAM OF GOD

posted on March 28th, 2017 at 12:06 PM by Steven Stanley

Miami reality meets Haitian black magic in Jeff Augustin’s Little Children Dream Of God, a stunningly directed, designed, and performed Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

CAT’S PAW

posted on March 27th, 2017 at 9:57 AM by Steven Stanley

Suspense dramas don’t much more edge-of-your-seat nor subject matter more hot-button than William Mastrosimone’s 1986 eco-terrorism thriller Cat’s Paw, updated by the author in 2011, more relevant than ever in 2017, and the terrific latest from Actors Co-op.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

CAROUSEL

posted on March 26th, 2017 at 10:54 AM by Steven Stanley

Anyone curious about why Time Magazine named Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel the 20th Century’s Best Musical need look no further than Musical Theatre West’s superb 21st-Century revival. Director Joe Langworth, choreographer Daniel Smith, and an all-around brilliant cast give us a Carousel still “fresh and alive and gay and young,” even at seventy-two years of age.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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