THE BOOK OF MORMON

posted on March 24th, 2016 at 10:32 AM by Steven Stanley

The Book Of Mormon is back, exciting news indeed for fans of Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone’s super-smash Broadway hit, now making its only L.A.-area stop this year at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

CASA VALENTINA

posted on March 21st, 2016 at 6:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein’s fact-inspired gender-bending trip down Catskills memory lane, now gets a sensational Pasadena Playhouse West Coast Premiere, one you’ll be talking and thinking about long after the 2014 Best Play Tony nominee’s stunning final fade to black.
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THE UNDERSTUDY

posted on March 20th, 2016 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley

The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck’s love letter-slash-poison pen missive to Broadway, Hollywood, and the craft/vocation/affliction of acting, makes for a terrifically acted Southern California Premiere showcase for a trio of L.A. up-and-comers.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION

posted on March 19th, 2016 at 4:34 PM by Steven Stanley

Six fabulous performers, a dozen-and-a-half gorgeously eclectic songs, some terrifically inventive staging, and a sizzling live band make The Unknown Artists’ Los Angeles Professional Premiere of Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM: A Musical Exhibition something quite special indeed.
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SEX WITH STRANGERS

posted on March 18th, 2016 at 12:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Sexual sparks fly when a prim-and-proper one-flop-wonder of a novelist and a best-selling chronicler of a year’s worth of one-night stands find themselves the only guests in a rural bed-and-breakfast in Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason’s provocative, conversation-provoking, undeniably sexy dramedy, now making its Los Angeles debut at the Geffen Playhouse.
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posted in Theater Review, Two-Hander, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

PARADE

posted on March 17th, 2016 at 5:37 PM by Steven Stanley

It takes guts and chutzpah to write a musical about a hundred-year-old anti-Semitism-fueled lynching that remains today one of the most horrific miscarriages of justice in United States history, but this is precisely what Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry pulled off in 1998’s Tony-winning Parade, now being given a Cal State Northridge revival that easily rivals the best our top SoCal regional theaters have to offer.
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posted in Musical, San Fernando Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

GOING TO A PLACE WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE

posted on March 16th, 2016 at 10:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Questions of life and death and what awaits beyond lie at the heart of Bekah Brunstetter’s heartstrings-tugging Going to a Place where you Already Are, a South Coast Repertory World Premiere you will be talking and thinking about long after its final scene.
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OKLAHOMA!

posted on March 14th, 2016 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre follows its excellent Guys And Dolls revival with an equally fine production of another mid-20th-century classic, the one that started it all, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Oklahoma!
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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