EVITA

posted on October 15th, 2016 at 1:44 PM by Steven Stanley

Phenomenal performances by Cassandra Murphy and Marc Ginsburg and some particularly exciting dance sequences highlight Cabrillo Music Theatre’s big-stage revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1979 smash Evita.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

WICKED LIT 2016

posted on October 14th, 2016 at 1:48 PM by Steven Stanley

It wouldn’t be October in L.A. without the annual return of the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky theatrical event that turns Altadena’s Mountain View Mausoleum And Cemetery into the chills-and-chuckles-packed trilogy of terror and suspense better known as Wicked Lit.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

DISTRICT MERCHANTS

posted on October 13th, 2016 at 2:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Aaron Posner offers theatergoers his 21st-century riff on Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice in District Merchants, a South Coast Repertory West Coast Premiere at once unabashedly romantic, cautiously cynical, and resolutely hopeful. I loved every minute of it.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE TRAGEDY OF JFK (AS TOLD BY WM. SHAKESPEARE)

posted on October 11th, 2016 at 6:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Jackie Kennedy believed Lyndon Johnson killed her husband, and so apparently does The Bard Of Avon in The Tragedy Of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare), Daniel Henning’s devilishly clever “Julius Caesar Redux,” now getting an exciting (and sure to be controversial) World Premiere at Henning’s The Blank Theatre.
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posted in Classic Play, Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

LIZARD BOY

posted on October 10th, 2016 at 12:39 PM by Steven Stanley

For everyone who’s ever felt excluded, rejected, or less than human for being “different” (and for anyone who simply goes gaga for thrillingly original musicals), Lizard Boy has made its way south from Seattle to San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre. Let the buzz begin!
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

OCTOBER SKY

posted on October 9th, 2016 at 6:09 PM by Steven Stanley

The sky’s the limit, and not just for the rocket boys of The Old Globe’s October Sky but so too for the tuneful, uplifting musical adaptation of the 1999 Universal Pictures family classic, a West Coast Premiere that could well prove to be Broadway-bound.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

ATLAS PIT, OR THE GARBAGE MAN’S SON

posted on October 8th, 2016 at 7:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Alex Burkart takes a grieving teenager, the girl he’s lost for eternity, his desperate parents, and a drug-dealing high school buddy, stirs in the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, and mixes these ingredients to often powerful effect in his World Premiere drama Atlas Pit, or The Garbage Man’s Son, the latest from The Los Angeles New Court Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

NEVERMORE

posted on October 8th, 2016 at 6:59 PM by Steven Stanley

Imagine an Edgar Allan Poe story with Poe himself as protagonist and you’ve got Nevermore, Matt Ritchey’s theatrical riff on The Fall of the House of Usher (with bits of The Pit And The Pendulum and The Tell Tale Heart thrown in for good measure), arriving at Theater Unleashed in time for Halloween in a production that could be better, but provides just enough laughs and thrills to make for ‘60s thriller movie-style fun.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review

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