DISNEY’S ALADDIN DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION
posted on February 7th, 2017 at 6:18 PM by Steven Stanley
Rata callejera and hija del sultán fall madly enamorados with the help of a certain blue genio as Casa 0101 treats L.A. audiences to Disney’s Aladdin Dual Language Edition, a particular treat for those who hablan español, but you don’t have to be bilingual to find yourself falling under the spell of las noches de Arabia that have made the Disney animated feature a home video favorite these past twenty-five years.
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Tags: Alan Menken, Casa 0101, Howard Ashman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Tim Rice
posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!
CLAUDIO QUEST
posted on February 6th, 2017 at 6:44 PM by Steven Stanley
Innovative musical theater triple-threats Drew Fornarola and Marshall Pailet pay affectionate, nostalgic tribute to mid-1980s video games in Claudio Quest, a delightfully tuneful Chance Theater West Coast Premiere with particular appeal to Mario Bros. franchise fans.
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Tags: Chance Theater, Drew Fornarola, Marshall Pailet, Orange County Theater Review
posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!
THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF MEAN GURLZ
posted on February 5th, 2017 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley
Mean Gurlz rule from now through mid-April as Rockwell Table & Stage’s UMPO series returns with The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Mean Gurlz, a tasty musical treat whether you’re a die-hard fan of a certain Lindsay Lohan movie smash or simply show up at Los Feliz’s trendiest cabaret for a dozen-and-a-half pop hits performed by some of SoCal’s most exciting young vocal stars.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Mean Girls, Rockwell Table & Stage
posted in Los Angeles, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!
MOBY DICK
posted on February 2nd, 2017 at 6:42 PM by Steven Stanley
Ten brilliantly talented performers, an inspired director/adapter, and a dazzlingly ingenious production design team join talents on South Coast Repertory’s Segerstrom Stage as Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company’s acclaimed Moby Dick visits Costa Mesa, proof positive that you don’t need a hundred-million Hollywood bucks to turn a Herman Melville classic into two-and-a half hours of epic storytelling magic.
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Tags: David Catlin, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Orange County Theater Review, South Coast Repertory
posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!
PLASTICITY
posted on February 1st, 2017 at 5:42 PM by Steven Stanley
40something David Rosely lies comatose as his identical twin Grant and fiancée Kate find themselves in head-to-head combat over his right to live or die. If this sounds more like a Lifetime Original Movie than the year’s most spectacular one-man tour-de-force, think again. Solo-performance star Alex Lyras and his co-writing partner Robert McCaskill are back in Hollywood with their latest collaboration, the absolutely thrilling Plasticity, the very definition of must-see theater.
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Tags: Alex Lyras, Hudson Guild Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
posted on January 30th, 2017 at 11:12 PM by Steven Stanley
Vanya, Sonia, and Masha Hardwick, Christopher Durang’s hilariously squabbling siblings, are back (along with Masha’s sexy boy toy Spike), and hallelujah for that, as Santa Monica’s Edgemar Center For The Arts gives the 2013 Best Play Tony Award winner Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike a 99-seat staging well worth its back-for-2017 extension.
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Tags: Christopher Durang, Edgemar Center For The Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!
GULF VIEW DRIVE
posted on January 30th, 2017 at 5:38 PM by Steven Stanley
Rubicon Theatre Company treats Ventura audiences—and anyone else in search of a delightful, nostalgic, emotionally potent trip back to the Eisenhower ‘50s—to Gulf View Drive, the third and final installment of Arlene Hutton’s Ovation Award-winning Nibroc Trilogy.
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Tags: Arlene Hutton, Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County Theater Review
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!
WHITE GUY ON THE BUS
posted on January 29th, 2017 at 11:32 AM by Steven Stanley
With racism once again being given permission to rear its hideous head in today’s post-Obama America, the time could not be riper for Bruce Graham’s riveting, conversation-provoking White Guy On The Bus to make its Los Angeles debut at The Road On Magnolia.
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Tags: Bruce Graham, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Road Theatre Company
posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!
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