THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)

posted on December 1st, 2024 at 12:53 PM by Steven Stanley


Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL

posted on November 25th, 2024 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley

I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

FOUR TOP

posted on November 24th, 2024 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley


An initially promising hook-up gone suddenly, disastrously amiss is just the start of the romcom roundelay that is Michael B. Kaplan’s laugh-packed World Premiere Four Top, the latest winner presented Upstairs at the Group Rep.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on November 23rd, 2024 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley


CASA 0101 triumphs like never before with the musical stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in a production that more than holds its own against L.A.’s most prestigious 99-seat theaters.
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DRY LAND

posted on November 22nd, 2024 at 12:51 PM by Steven Stanley


Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing off-off-Broadway play about a high school swimmer desperate to terminate her unwanted pregnancy by whatever means possible, returns to Los Angeles in an impressive limited-run guest production at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

posted on November 19th, 2024 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Pasadena Playhouse’s five-year-long winning streak of Broadway musical revivals comes to a crashing halt with Sam Pinkleton’s ill-conceived take on the 1980s Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein classic La Cage Aux Folles.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

posted on November 18th, 2024 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley


Broadway couldn’t deliver a more magnificent 60th-anniversary Fiddler On The Roof revival than the big-stage, big-budget Jason Alexander starrer now dazzling audiences at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

FIRST DATE

posted on November 17th, 2024 at 9:20 AM by Steven Stanley


Chromolume Theater is back after a six-year hiatus with a sparklingly performed intimate revival of the smart, funny 2013 Broadway romcom musical First Date.
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