A WALK IN THE WOODS

posted on May 7th, 2016 at 9:50 AM by Steven Stanley

The Cold War arms race provides a provocative backdrop for the Pulitzer Prize finalist A Walk In The Woods, Lee Blessing’s dramedic look at the odd-couple friendship that develops in the late 1980s between a veteran Soviet arms negotiator and his younger American counterpart, now getting a crowd-pleasing revival at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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THE BIG MEAL

posted on May 5th, 2016 at 11:03 PM by Steven Stanley

The meet-cute sequence that introduces us to 20somethings Sam and Nicole is but the preamble to The Big Meal, Dan LeFranc’s remarkable meditation on birth, death, life, love, and the whole damn thing, now getting a laughter-and-tear-filled Southern California Premiere that is one of Chance Theater’s finest intimate productions ever.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on May 1st, 2016 at 12:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Generation Y-ers have set up shop for the next couple weeks at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts in the very best of the five incarnations I’ve seen so far of Green Day’s addictive rock musical American Idiot.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BOY FROM OZ

posted on April 30th, 2016 at 12:19 PM by Steven Stanley

Australian entertainment legend Peter Allen lives again as Celebration Theatre treats SoCal audiences to the long-awaited West Coast Premiere of the 2003 Broadway smash The Boy From Oz, the most all-around sensational L.A. intimate-theater musical I’ve seen since the Celebration’s award-sweeping The Color Purple four years back.
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

posted on April 25th, 2016 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley

J. Pierpont Finch is once again learning How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying as Candlelight Pavilion treats Southland audiences not only to its savory cuisine but to the 1961 Frank Loesser/Abe Burrow Broadway gem, adding up to one all-around delicious evening (or afternoon) of musical theater.
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TORCH SONG TRILOGY

posted on April 24th, 2016 at 12:46 PM by Steven Stanley

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Andrew J. Villarreal gives the year’s most extraordinary performance as flamboyant but mush-hearted Jewish drag queen Arnold Beckoff in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy, making Theatre Out’s rarer-than-rare revival well worth seeing despite the flawed execution of the first two of its three one-act plays.
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posted in Comedy, Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Recommended, Theater Review, WOW!

THE END TIMES

posted on April 23rd, 2016 at 2:12 PM by Steven Stanley

A university student raised in a religious cult finds himself beginning to doubt his lifelong beliefs in Jesse Mu-En Shao’s World Premiere drama The End Times, an engrossing, thought-provoking first collaboration between Skylight Theatre Company and Playwrights’ Arena.
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OFFICE HOUR

posted on April 23rd, 2016 at 8:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Sandra Oh and Raymond Lee give electrifying performances as a college adjunct professor and the student she suspects just might be capable of mass murder in Julia Cho’s ripped-from-today’s-headlines Office Hour, now riveting audiences in its World Premiere engagement at South Coast Repertory.
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