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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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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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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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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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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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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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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13 THINGS ABOUT ED CARPOLOTTI

posted on January 25th, 2017 at 5:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Septuagenarian widow Virginia Carpolotti hums whenever she’s got reason to worry, and she’s got plenty of reason to whistle—and with Emmy-winner Penny Fuller playing her, audiences have plenty of reason to cheer—in the delightful, tuneful 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti, 70-minutes of one-woman musical theater showmanship at The Broad Stage.
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