NEXT THING YOU KNOW

posted on April 16th, 2016 at 12:20 PM by Steven Stanley

No one writes contemporary musical romcoms better than Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham, proof positive of which can be savored in Next Thing You Know, the duo’s charming, infectiously tuneful follow-up to their off-Broadway hit I Love You Because, now being given a terrific West Coast Premiere by Chromolume Theatre Company.
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DRY LAND

posted on April 12th, 2016 at 5:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Fearless only begins to describe the performances being given by Teagan Rose and Connor Kelly-Eiding, the two extraordinary young stars of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing Dry Land, now getting a riveting West Coast Premiere by The Echo Theater Company.
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INTO THE WOODS

posted on April 11th, 2016 at 11:34 AM by Steven Stanley

Cal State Fullerton’s musical theater majors once again prove themselves some of American’s Most Promising triple-threats in CSUF’s splendid big-stage revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

SISTER ACT

posted on April 11th, 2016 at 9:32 AM by Steven Stanley

The convent is alive with the sound of disco as on-the-lam nightclub chantoozie Deloris Van Cartier teaches the nuns of The Holy Order of the Little Sisters of Our Mother of Perpetual Faith a lesson in Booty-Shaking For The Lord in Sister Act, the most all-around entertaining Musical Theatre West premiere in years.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

CHILDREN OF EDEN

posted on April 9th, 2016 at 11:39 AM by Steven Stanley

An onstage cast of fifty multitalented musical theater performers, an absolutely exquisite production design, and above all what may well be Stephen Schwartz’s most gorgeous score (Wicked included) add up to a glorious Children Of Eden, now being given the kind of Grade-A professional staging you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere other than Cabrillo Music Theater.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

FUTURE THINKING

posted on April 7th, 2016 at 4:56 PM by Steven Stanley

An obsessed fan is no laughing matter (remember Kathy Bates in Misery?), that is unless the obsessed fan in question is the one under hotel arrest in Eliza Clark’s delightful, surprising, and ultimately quite touching new dramedy Future Thinking, now World Premiering at South Coast Repertory.
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TEMPEST REDUX

posted on April 5th, 2016 at 10:58 PM by Steven Stanley

You don’t have to be a Shakespeare lover to fall under the spell of John Farmanesh-Bocca’s magically reimagined ninety-minute take on The Tempest, the Bard’s classic tale of treachery, revenge, and transformative forgiveness, fittingly retitled Tempest Redux and mesmerizing audiences at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

posted on April 5th, 2016 at 12:19 AM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within revives Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist classic Six Characters In Search Of An Author with enough exciting theatricality to largely overcome the dated melodrama of the play-within-a-play that its sextet of author-seeking Characters are hoping to see performed.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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