THE SUPER VARIETY MATCH BONUS ROUND!

posted on November 13th, 2016 at 1:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Deb Hiett pokes gentle fun at the Red State-Blue State divide in her undeniably hilarious, unexpectedly moving, and utterly unique World Premiere comedy The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!, the latest from Rogue Machine Theatre.
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MilkMilkLemonade

posted on November 12th, 2016 at 6:59 PM by Steven Stanley

An eleven-year-old girly boy named Emory, the barnyard chicken who’s his best friend, his caring but Leviticus-spouting granny, and the self-loathing, Emory-loving bad-boy-next-door add up to an hour-and-a-quarter of delightful, insightful, ultimately quite touching adult storybook fun in Joshua Conkel’s MilkMilkLemonade, the latest from Santa Ana’s Theatre Out.
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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES

posted on November 11th, 2016 at 6:34 PM by Steven Stanley

There may indeed be “no place like home for the holidays,” but there’s surely never been a holiday home quite like the Wemblys’ in Kate Benson’s A Beautiful Day In November On The Banks Of The Greatest Of The Great Lakes, now getting a weird, wacky, wonderful West Coast Premiere at Hollywood’s Theatre Of NOTE.
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THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

posted on November 8th, 2016 at 12:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Ten of L.A.’s finest actresses (and a couple of equally talented guys) deliver superb performances, and the production they are starring in proves one of the year’s most stunningly designed. Still, as was the case when I saw Lily Tomlin perform it as a one-woman showcase back in 1987, I found The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe, Jane Wagner’s collection of (mostly women’s) monologs and occasional multi-character scenes only intermittently engaging in its Los Angeles LGBT Center intimate-stage “revisitation.”
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URINETOWN

posted on November 6th, 2016 at 5:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Annie, Cabaret, Dreamgirls, Grease, Hair, Mame, Pippin, Rent. One-word-titled Broadway smashes go all the way back to the birth of the modern American musical. (Showboat or Oklahoma!, you take your pick.) Still, there’s never quite been a modern American musical like Urinetown, proof positive of which can be marveled at in director Kari Hayter’s exhilarating intimate-stage revival, the latest from L.A.’s “Pay What You Want” Coeurage Theatre Company.
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A TIME TO KILL

posted on November 5th, 2016 at 5:08 PM by Steven Stanley

Theatre 68 inaugurates its new, spiffily remodeled Lankershim digs with Rupert Holmes’ skillful 2013 Broadway stage adaptation of John Grisham’s A Time To Kill, an edge-of-your-seat West Coast Premiere likely to prove right up any courtroom-drama lover’s alley.
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A TASTE OF HONEY

posted on November 5th, 2016 at 11:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Teenage Jo comes of age once again in A Taste Of Honey, Shelagh Delaney’s groundbreaking slice of mid-20th-century Manchester life made must-see at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre by its native Mancunian star’s haunting lead performance.
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LEND ME A TENOR

posted on November 3rd, 2016 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley

A sensational cast performing under Art Manke’s inspired direction make McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s pitch-perfect revival of Ken Ludwig’s 1986 smash Lend Me A Tenor a crowd-pleaser if there ever was one, and the best possible reason to brave L.A. traffic for an evening of farce at its most fabulous at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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