A THORN IN THE FAMILY PAW

posted on June 13th, 2016 at 12:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Life’s many obstacles prove no match for the ties that bind—promises, responsibilities, guilt, laughter, and above all love—in Garry Michael Kluger’s heart-and-humor-filled A Thorn In The Family Paw, a Theatre West World Premiere that already feels like a contemporary classic.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

GYPSY

posted on June 12th, 2016 at 10:35 AM by Steven Stanley

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A weak first act, a considerably more successful second, and a terrific Tara Pitt throughout add up to a mixed bag of a Gypsy revival at Theatre Out, but one still worth checking out for Pitt’s powerhouse performance as (wonder of wonders) an age-appropriate Mama Rose.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Recommended, Theater Review

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

posted on June 11th, 2016 at 11:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Christopher Durang’s Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike has arrived at International City Theatre, the delectable 2013 Best Play Tony winner proving one of early summer’s yummiest treats.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

RUBEN GUTHRIE

posted on June 8th, 2016 at 5:33 PM by Steven Stanley

Giving up the bottle in a country where the rate of alcoholism is among the highest in the developed world is no laughing matter, that is unless you’re playwright Brendan Cowell, whose year of self-imposed sobriety inspired the thoroughly entertaining dark dramatic comedy Ruben Guthrie, the second half of the rotating-rep double-bill that marks the welcome return of Los Angeles’s Australian Theatre Company.
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES

posted on June 8th, 2016 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley

The secrets we hide from those we love, the lies we tell to protect both them and ourselves, and the truths that can only be revealed to strangers lie at the heart of Andrew Bovell’s extraordinary Speaking In Tongues, the first half of the rotating-rep double-bill that marks the welcome return of Los Angeles’s Australian Theatre Company.
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AS YOU LIKE IT

posted on June 7th, 2016 at 5:23 PM by Steven Stanley

For those of us who prefer our Bard Of Avon short and sweet, Denise Devin is back with another of her hour-long Shakespeare Short Cuts, the result of which is an As You Like It exactly as you (and I) like it.
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THE WIZ

posted on June 6th, 2016 at 4:10 PM by Steven Stanley

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For the next six weeks, The Emerald City can be found in Simi Valley as Actors Repertory Theatre Of Simi presents The Wiz, aka The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” a mixed bag of a production that nonetheless offers SoCal audiences the rarer-than-rare chance to see a bona fide Broadway groundbreaker, one that proved that a musical with an all-African-American cast could not only win Tonys (seven in all) but become one of the Top Forty longest-running musicals in Broadway history.
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posted in Musical, Recommended, Theater Review, Ventura County

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on June 6th, 2016 at 12:18 AM by Steven Stanley

It’s taken nearly ten years for Disney The Little Mermaid to make it from Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to “Under The Sea” at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, but director Glenn Casale’s ingeniously reconceived, spectacularly staged take on the New York original makes it well worth the wait.
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