FUGU

posted on March 6th, 2017 at 9:23 AM by Steven Stanley

The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale of Eastern-European Jews finding refuge from the Nazis in 1941 Japan merits more nuanced treatment than it gets in West Coast Jewish Theatre’s credibility-defying World Premiere historical melodrama Fugu.
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COMPANY

posted on March 5th, 2017 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Director Kristin Towers-Rowles makes Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 Broadway classic Company seem fresh and new in the terrifically performed and choreographed revival it’s now being given at Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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33 VARIATIONS

posted on March 4th, 2017 at 3:21 PM by Steven Stanley

Actors Co-op’s intimate revival of Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations is not only one of the year’s finest 99-seat productions, it is among the all-time best I’ve seen at the Co-op since first discovering the Hollywood theatrical gem over two decades ago.
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COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN FIVE BOOPS

posted on March 3rd, 2017 at 5:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Five very different Bettys learn to love their pussies, and each other, in Collective Rage: A Play In Five Boops, a tangy new Jen Silverman comedy that may not be to everyone’s taste, but offers enough delicious dialog and tasty performances to keep adventurous Boston Court audiences entertained and ultimately maybe even quite moved.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER

posted on March 1st, 2017 at 1:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Homicide has rarely been as hilarious as it is in A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, the murderously mirthful quadruple-Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014, now paying a crowd-delighting weeklong visit to the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

42nd STREET

posted on February 27th, 2017 at 3:16 PM by Steven Stanley

There may be only a third as many hoofers onstage as in the original Broadway production and painted scrims may take the place of a more three-dimensional scenic design, but with one Harry Warren-Al Dubin song smash after another, a book as cleverly written as Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble’s, direction as sharp and choreography as imaginatively tweaked as DJ Gray’s, and above all a cast as all-around terrific as the twenty-two on stage at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre and 42nd Street makes for yet another crowd-pleasing Candlelight hit.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

posted on February 26th, 2017 at 6:21 PM by Steven Stanley

The sights, the sounds, and the colors of the Caribbean fill the Cerritos Performing Arts Center as 3-D Theatricals treats its audiences to Lynn Ahrens’ and Stephen Flaherty’s tale of star-crossed island lovers, the magical musical Once On This Island.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

posted on February 25th, 2017 at 10:58 AM by Steven Stanley

A couple of miscast lead roles undermine credibility throughout what would otherwise be a satisfactory production of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at The Group Rep.
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