BLUEBERRY TOAST

posted on September 21st, 2016 at 10:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Ozzie And Harriet could take lessons from Walt and Barb in suburban perfection, or at least they could until Walt’s disdain for this morning’s breakfast entree turns things haywire in Mary Laws’ bizarre absurdist black comedy Blueberry Toast, an Echo Theater World Premiere highlighted by a pair of bravura performances by Jacqueline Wright and Albert Dayan.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE

posted on September 19th, 2016 at 11:26 AM by Steven Stanley

Inventive direction and refreshingly diverse casting are just two reasons to catch The Red Brick Road Theatre Company and Endeavor Theatre Ensemble’s terrifically performed intimate staging of Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman’s musical romcom charmer I Love You Because.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on September 18th, 2016 at 5:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Take a classic novel by Victor Hugo, half-a-dozen songs from a favorite Disney film, and the inspired casting of a deaf actor as Quasimodo and you’ve got three, though hardly the only reasons for The Hunchback Of Notre Dame to top any musical theater lover’s must-see list as summer turns to fall.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY

posted on September 18th, 2016 at 8:36 AM by Steven Stanley

The Road Theatre Company opens their 2016-2017 season with an imaginatively directed, beautifully acted, gorgeously designed Los Angeles Premiere of Edward Albee’s The Play About The Baby, though whether Albee’s play will speak to you or not will depend on how you feel about abandoning the realistic for the allegorical.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

BARBECUE

posted on September 16th, 2016 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Trailer trash knows no color in the sordid lives brought to booze-chugging, drug-snorting, profanity-spewing life in Barbecue, Robert O’Hara’s outrageously twisted, hysterically funny new comedy now making its West Coast debut at the Geffen Playhouse, and that’s just Act One.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

posted on September 15th, 2016 at 11:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge, this year’s Best Revival Tony winner, has arrived at the Ahmanson in a production likely to leave audience opinion split between “brilliantly innovative” and “pretentiously boring.” Though it took me a while to get there, I ended up veering towards the former point of view. Still, unless you’re lucky enough to be sitting either onstage (an option here) or up close (if you’ve got the bucks), the Ahmanson proves far too large a venue for a production as intimate as this one.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

ALL THE WAY

posted on September 14th, 2016 at 2:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Robert Schenkkan’s Best Play Tony-winner All The Way arrives at South Coast Repertory in what is sure to be one of the coming year’s finest productions, a locally-cast, locally-directed, locally-designed gem that sets the record straight on LBJ, our nation’s 36th President, brought to explosive, warts-and-all life by Hugo Armstrong in one of the year’s great star turns.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE FANTASTICKS

posted on September 13th, 2016 at 6:25 PM by Steven Stanley

The world’s longest-running musical (aka The Fantasticks) makes for a crowd-pleasing Pasadena Playhouse season opener thanks not only to its time-tested appeal but also to an excitingly contemporary director’s concept and cast choices that celebrate diversity in the most refreshing of ways.
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