MY MAÑANA COMES

posted on May 10th, 2016 at 6:05 PM by Steven Stanley

The subsistence-wage busboy protagonists of My Mañana Comes are young men the average theatergoer would normally pay not much attention to, which is just one reason why Elizabeth Irwin’s 2014 dramedy proves such an engrossing, eye-opening treat in its Los Angeles Premiere at The Fountain Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE GOLDEN DRAGON

posted on May 9th, 2016 at 10:50 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
Five exceptional performances, Michael Michetti’s highly imaginative direction, and a breathtaking Theatre @ Boston Court production design add up to reason enough to check out Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon despite a script more pretentious than profound.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Recommended, Theater Review

CAROUSEL

posted on May 8th, 2016 at 8:36 PM by Steven Stanley

The students of the Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program show off their triple-threat talents in the UCLA Department Of Theater’s gorgeously sung-and-danced revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Carousel.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

posted on May 8th, 2016 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

The wordless five-minute sequence that introduces us, heartstoppingly, to a Tom Wingfield haunted by memories that even years of distance have been unable to extinguish is but the first indication that Christian Lebano’s vision for Tennessee Williams’ most enduring classic is one we have not yet seen, and one that we will be talking and thinking about long after the light dims on the last of Tom’s sister’s precious Glass Menagerie.
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posted in Drama, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

A WALK IN THE WOODS

posted on May 7th, 2016 at 9:50 AM by Steven Stanley

The Cold War arms race provides a provocative backdrop for the Pulitzer Prize finalist A Walk In The Woods, Lee Blessing’s dramedic look at the odd-couple friendship that develops in the late 1980s between a veteran Soviet arms negotiator and his younger American counterpart, now getting a crowd-pleasing revival at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

THE BIG MEAL

posted on May 5th, 2016 at 11:03 PM by Steven Stanley

The meet-cute sequence that introduces us to 20somethings Sam and Nicole is but the preamble to The Big Meal, Dan LeFranc’s remarkable meditation on birth, death, life, love, and the whole damn thing, now getting a laughter-and-tear-filled Southern California Premiere that is one of Chance Theater’s finest intimate productions ever.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on May 1st, 2016 at 12:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Generation Y-ers have set up shop for the next couple weeks at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts in the very best of the five incarnations I’ve seen so far of Green Day’s addictive rock musical American Idiot.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BOY FROM OZ

posted on April 30th, 2016 at 12:19 PM by Steven Stanley

Australian entertainment legend Peter Allen lives again as Celebration Theatre treats SoCal audiences to the long-awaited West Coast Premiere of the 2003 Broadway smash The Boy From Oz, the most all-around sensational L.A. intimate-theater musical I’ve seen since the Celebration’s award-sweeping The Color Purple four years back.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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