DUTCH MASTERS

posted on September 6th, 2016 at 9:47 PM by Steven Stanley

A classic setup—Hitchcock called it Strangers On A Train—is given an excitingly edgy contemporary spin in Greg Keller’s edge-of-your-seat two-hander Dutch Masters, a Rogue Machine Theatre West Coast Premiere that will keep you guessing throughout its riveting seventy-five minutes, then have you talking about what you’ve seen long after its powerful final fadeout.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

posted on September 5th, 2016 at 2:23 PM by Steven Stanley

The Pride Of Saint Tropez, The Envy Of The Cabaret World, The Jewel Of The Riviera, in other words Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage Aux Folles, has opened its doors in beautiful downtown Claremont as Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre debuts its absolutely fabulous big-stage revival of the 1980s Broadway classic, directed and choreographed with abundant flair by Roger Castellano.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

MUTUAL PHILANTHROPY

posted on September 4th, 2016 at 5:42 PM by Steven Stanley

Copiously consumed whisky and wine fuel a dinner party for four as playwright Karen Rizzo puts a personal face on the social divide between the super-wealthy and the other 99% of us Angelinos in her explosive dark comedy Mutual Philanthropy, now getting an excitingly acted World Premiere by Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA.
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WTC VIEW

posted on September 3rd, 2016 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Late September 2001. Downtown NYC. Life goes on, but not like before, never like before, in Brian Sloan’s riveting WTC View, now getting a long-awaited West Coast Premiere at Santa Ana’s Theatre Out, and a particularly fine one at that.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

ANYTHING GOES

posted on September 2nd, 2016 at 12:12 PM by Steven Stanley

Reno Sweeney once again fires up the congregation with revivalist fervor (and some of the best tunes ever written) as Glendale Centre Theatre offers audiences its exhilarating revival of the 1930s Cole Porter classic Anything Goes, once again demonstrating GCT’s expertise at taking great big Broadway musicals and giving them intimate in-the-round pizzazz.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

PLEASE DON’T ASK ABOUT BECKET

posted on August 30th, 2016 at 4:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Wendy Graf puts a personal face on the question of nature vs. nurture in Please Don’t Ask About Becket, the playwright’s latest family drama now getting an often compelling World Premiere guest production at The Sacred Fools Theatre Black Box.
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LI’L ABNER

posted on August 29th, 2016 at 1:48 PM by Steven Stanley

They don’t write shows like Li’l Abner anymore, and not just because the 1956 musical adaptation of the Al Capp comic strip pretty much defines political incorrectness. With its Original Broadway Cast of fifty-four, only schools and community playhouses could possibly hope to produce this musical behemoth in 2016—which makes it a perfect choice for the theatrical genre known as the Concert Staged Reading, proof positive of which was evidenced at Musical Theatre West’s Daisy Maezing one-night-only Reiner Reading Series latest.
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THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP

posted on August 28th, 2016 at 12:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Carla Ching takes a tried-and-true formula (best friends who can’t quite get it into their noggins that they are Made For Each Other) and turns it on its head in her World Premiere dramedy The Two Kids Who Blow Shit Up, not only L.A. theater at its intimate best but a textbook example of how #diversity works.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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