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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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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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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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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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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SEMINAR

posted on October 6th, 2016 at 11:08 PM by Steven Stanley

What Terrence Spencer was to his tyrannized music students in Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning Whiplash, so novelist-turned-magazine correspondent Leonard is to the equally intimidated writers attending his uber-pricey workshop in Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic, dramatically potent Seminar, now being given a terrific Chance Theater Orange County Premiere.
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BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

posted on October 5th, 2016 at 11:48 AM by Steven Stanley

A sensational lead performance by Broadway understudy-turned-National Tour star Julia Knitel and over two dozen ‘50s/‘60s hits (most of them written by a certain Carol Joan Klein and the man she married at seventeen and divorced ten rocky years later) make Beautiful: The Carole King Musical a must-see for pop music lovers and Broadway buffs alike.
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OUR TOWN

posted on October 3rd, 2016 at 2:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Inspired direction, refreshing diversity in casting, and striking production design breathe fresh new life into Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana that first astonished audiences in 1938 with its then revolutionary look at birth, life, love, and what comes after.
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