NORA

posted on April 27th, 2024 at 12:54 PM by Steven Stanley


Housewives don’t get any more desperate than Nora, the up-against-the-wall protagonist of Antaeus Theatre Company’s enthralling, entertaining latest, Ingmar Bergman’s smartly streamlined take on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

PRELUDE TO A KISS THE MUSICAL

posted on April 23rd, 2024 at 9:18 AM by Steven Stanley


A gorgeous score, appealing performances, and a book that will have you reflecting on the very meaning of love are just three reasons to fall for South Coast Repertory’s World Premiere musical adaptation of Craig Lucas’s Prelude To A Kiss.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

JERSEY BOYS

posted on April 21st, 2024 at 7:48 PM by Steven Stanley


The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

TWELFTH NIGHT

posted on April 20th, 2024 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Actors Co-op gives L.A.’s top-of-the-line classical theater companies some stiff competition with their irresistibly entertaining, tunefully tropical take on Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools.
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posted in Classic Play, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

JEKYLL & HYDE THE MUSICAL

posted on April 19th, 2024 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley


Justin Meyer’s spectacularly sung and acted Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, Cassandra Caruso and Rachel Franke’s breakout star turns as the women in their lives, and a look inspired by such Hollywood monster movie classics as Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man make The Nocturne Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Jekyll & Hyde The Musical a song-and-thrill-packed treat.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

HIGH MAINTENANCE

posted on April 16th, 2024 at 9:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Christian Prentice dazzles as a state-of-the-art robot about to star as Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opposite TV diva Ivy Khan’s Nora in Peter Ritt’s High Maintenance, an initially captivating Road Theatre World Premiere that fails to live up to expectations in its romance-derailing, credibility-straining final scenes.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

posted on April 14th, 2024 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Dear Abby and Ann Landers could learn a thing or two from Sugar, the advice columnist whose empathetic, profound, deeply moving responses to folks in dire need of counsel make Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things the most heartstrings-tugging show in town.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

OPHELIA

posted on April 13th, 2024 at 12:04 PM by Steven Stanley


Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

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