NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on August 20th, 2016 at 2:26 PM by Steven Stanley

The 99-seat Pico Playhouse proves a just-right setting for a compelling, powerfully-performed intimate staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Next To Normal, one of only nine musicals in Broadway history to have won the Pulitzer Prize.
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GO BACK TO WHERE YOU ARE

posted on August 18th, 2016 at 9:20 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s a whole lot of fourth-wall-breaking going on in Go Back To Where You are, David Greenspan’s magical seventy-five minute bit of meta-theatrical romance and whimsy now getting an admittedly brain-challenging but absolutely captivating West Coast Premiere by the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

posted on August 15th, 2016 at 12:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Theatrical magic doesn’t get much more magical than the magic being made at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center as Actors Repertory Theatre Of Simi enchants audiences of all ages with their supremely imaginative albeit scaled-down production of Broadway’s Peter And The Starcatcher.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

THE IMAGINARY INVALID

posted on August 14th, 2016 at 6:28 PM by Steven Stanley

Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer follows her 2014 Queen Lear with another gender-bending star turn, this time as Molière’s Malade Imaginaire, aka The Imaginary Invalid, Constance Congdon’s 21st-century adaptation turning a three-and-a-half-century-old farce into a playfully raunchy laughfest that would do Mel Brooks proud.
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BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE

posted on August 13th, 2016 at 4:15 PM by Steven Stanley

The weeks leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor provide the historical backdrop for Blueprint For Paradise, Laurel M. Wetzork’s fascinating, fact-inspired look at the unlikely friendship between the heiress wife of an American Nazi sympathizer and the African-American architect hired to design a “refugee compound” on fifty-acres of the couple’s Pacific Palisades estate.
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JAI RODRIGUEZ

posted on August 12th, 2016 at 2:48 PM by Steven Stanley

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D DEB DEBBIE DEBORAH

posted on August 12th, 2016 at 9:50 AM by Steven Stanley

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Twilight Zone meets Theater Of The Absurd in D Deb Debbie Deborah, Jerry Lieblich’s trippy journey to a land where no one, not even the title character, is who they seem, and though it’s anyone’s guess what Lieblich is getting at throughout most of his play’s seventy-five minutes, confusion hardly matters till a sudden eleventh-hour try for profundity takes Quadruple D from entertaining to exasperating.
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CABARET

posted on August 10th, 2016 at 1:46 AM by Steven Stanley

Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret, radically re-imagined by Sam Mendes, has arrived at the Segerstrom Center For The Performing Arts to thrill and devastate audiences with its vision of 1930s Berlin at its darkest and most decadent.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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