SHIPWRECKED!: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT (AS TOLD BY HIMSELF)

posted on October 22nd, 2016 at 1:58 PM by Steven Stanley

Theatrical magic doesn’t get more magical—or more brilliantly theatrical—than Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked!: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself), now captivating audiences at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL

posted on October 21st, 2016 at 12:00 PM by Steven Stanley

USC’s entirely student-run Musical Theatre Repertory kicks off its twelfth season with Heathers: The Musical, a screen-to-stage adaptation that may not work as well as the similarly-themed Carrie: The Musical, but nonetheless provides plenty of tongue-in-cheek musical darkness for its talented Trojan performers and behind-the-scenes team.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review

BUYER & CELLAR

posted on October 20th, 2016 at 2:31 PM by Steven Stanley

“Mem’ries” may light the corners of Broadway/TV star Jai Rodriguez’s mind, but they are neither “misty” nor “water-colored” in Jonathan Tolins’ deliciously dishy Buyer & Cellar, a revelatory showcase for Queer Eye “Culture Vulture” Rodriguez under Dimitri Toscas’ truly inspired direction.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

FRIENDS IN TRANSIENT PLACES

posted on October 17th, 2016 at 7:00 PM by Steven Stanley

A planeload of passengers jetting from New York to L.A. transports playwright Jonathan Caren into Sarah Ruhl territory in Friends In Transient Places, Caren’s experiment in magic realism that, while it may not have you glued to the edge of your seat as did his The Recommendation and Need To Know, offers its own unique pleasures.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE IMAGINARY INVALID

posted on October 16th, 2016 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Whether you’re a Mel Brooks/Monty Python fan who would never even consider setting foot in “California’s Home For The Classics” or a diehard Molière aficionado who can’t possibly imagine passing up a fresh new adaptation of the 343-year-old Le Malade Imaginaire, Constance Congdon’s 21st-century take on The Imaginary Invalid treats A Noise Within audiences to a laughfest so delectably funny (and playfully raunchy), it would do Mel or Monty proud.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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!

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