TORUK – The First Flight

posted on January 13th, 2017 at 11:21 AM by Steven Stanley

 

Spectacle there is in abundance and performers are as spectacularly multitalented as you’d expect from Cirque Du Soleil, but the stadium-scale TORUK – The First Flight, now making a four-day stop at The Forum, is likely to prove a letdown to both Cirque fans and those expecting see James Cameron’s Avatar live on stage.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Special Event, Theater Review

THE ROOMMATE

posted on January 11th, 2017 at 5:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Jen Silverman reinvigorates the surefire (if overly familiar) odd-couple comedy in The Roommate, a South Coast Repertory West Coast Premiere that may well defy credibility in its final scenes but never fails to entertain, particularly as performed by a crackerjack couple of SoCal stage treasures.
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BLOODLETTING

posted on January 10th, 2017 at 5:27 PM by Steven Stanley

A Filipino-American brother and sister’s pilgrimage to their recently deceased father’s birthplace takes a supernatural turn in Boni B. Alvarez’s Bloodletting, a Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere that could appeal to fans of the occult who don’t mind spending seventy-five minutes with a couple of rather obnoxious siblings.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

BLACK COMEDY

posted on January 9th, 2017 at 12:49 PM by Steven Stanley

An inspired concept and some virtuoso physical comedy make the first two-thirds of Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy a one-of-a-kind Glendale Centre Theatre treat before the laughter gets derailed by a jarring second-act tonal shift and some unexpected (and decidedly unpleasant) character twists.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review

THE LION

posted on January 8th, 2017 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley

One man, six guitars, fifteen songs, and Benjamin Scheuer’s extraordinary true-life tale add up to twenty-two reasons not to miss the Geffen Playhouse L.A. Premiere of the award-winning international sensation The Lion.
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posted in Solo Performance, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

RENT

posted on January 7th, 2017 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley

Jonathan Larson’s Rent has arrived at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts in an energetically performed 20th-Anniversary non-Equity tour that recreates Michael Greif’s original 1996 vision, one that revolutionized Broadway with its now iconic tale of impoverished young artists and musicians just barely holding it together in New York’s Lower East Side during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic.
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LITTLE WOMEN – THE BROADWAY MUSICAL

posted on December 25th, 2016 at 11:33 AM by Steven Stanley

An almost entirely new cast breathes fresh new life into Little Women – The Broadway Musical in its Chance Theater return, one that audiences can consider themselves lucky to have caught during its just concluded five-week run.
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ELF THE MUSICAL

posted on December 21st, 2016 at 1:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Get ready to fall in love with Elf, both 6’2” Buddy and the Broadway adaptation of the Will Ferrell holiday gem. Elf The Musical is spending a week at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts and some despite stiff competition from White Christmas and The Grinch, it now takes first place as this reviewer’s heart as best holiday musical ever.
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