ELECTRICITY

posted on August 8th, 2016 at 11:44 AM by Steven Stanley


Opposites not only attract, they generate Electricity in Terry Ray’s captivating World Premiere tale of two gay men who just happen to meet Same Time Next Decade in the same Ohio motel room from the early 1980s to the present day and (as the song goes) can’t help falling in love.
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posted in North Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL

posted on August 7th, 2016 at 7:49 PM by Steven Stanley

Ren McCormack is back at Bomont High and fighting for his fellow students’ right to “cut footloose” as Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre treats its audiences to a finger-snapping, toe-tapping revival of Broadway’s Footloose The Musical.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN

posted on August 6th, 2016 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley

San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre scores a major programming coup in offering Angelinos their first 99-seat look at Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright’s tangy examination of how much—and how little—women’s lives have changed from the pre-Betty Friedan 1950s to the post-post-Feminist today.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on August 5th, 2016 at 11:42 AM by Steven Stanley

Save for one teensy tiny potted plan that doesn’t even make it through Act One, there’s nothing even vaguely botanical-looking in The B Productions’ 99-seat revival of Menken & Ashman’s Little Shop Of Horrors. What there is is an abundance of talent both onstage and off, making the NoHo Arts Center guest production a winner even if its central conceit (“Technology Can Kill”) will probably work best for those who’ve already seen Little Shop umpteen times.
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EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSIE

posted on August 2nd, 2016 at 9:11 AM by Steven Stanley

A couple of luminous Broadway stars shone brightly this past Sunday in Everything’s Coming Up Rosie, Sterling’s Upstairs At The Federal’s one-night-only salute to Rosemary Clooney, a celebration of both the lady of song and the ten years that Michael Sterling has treated L.A. to the crème-de-la-crème of musical theater talent in an intimate supper club setting.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

A RAISIN IN THE SUN

posted on July 31st, 2016 at 2:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Star turns you’d expect to see at the Pasadena Playhouse or the Geffen distinguish Ruskin Group Theatre’s 57th-anniversary revival of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s piercing look at racial discrimination, gender roles, family values, and burgeoning African-American identity—a modern American classic that remains as relevant today as it was in the pre-Civil Rights Era 1950s.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

BABY DOLL

posted on July 30th, 2016 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley

A just-right darkly comedic tone and pitch-perfect performances turn minor Tennessee Williams into major summer entertainment as the Fountain Theater gives West Coast audiences their first taste of Pierre Laville and Emily Mann’s streamlined, Williams-estate-approved adaptation of the 1956 movie potboiler Baby Doll.
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SPACE

posted on July 30th, 2016 at 10:07 AM by Steven Stanley

Disproving the oft-suggested notion that a playwright should never direct his own work, Stefan Marks not only scores a double bulls-eye at the Stella Adler; in never leaving the stage as Space’s riveting protagonist, the Ovation Award-winning director-writer-actor proves himself a bona fide triple-threat in this brain-teasing dazzler of a play.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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