STAGE KISS

posted on April 21st, 2016 at 6:14 PM by Steven Stanley

Noël Coward meets Noises Off meets Conor McPherson when a couple of onetime lovers find themselves lip-locked once again in not one but two not-so-brilliant regional theater productions in Sarah Ruhl’s scrumdiddlyumptious backstage comedy Stage Kiss, now getting its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA

posted on April 20th, 2016 at 4:55 PM by Steven Stanley


A fresh new book by Douglas Carter Beane breathes exciting new life into a spectacular new production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, now delighting audiences of all ages (and I do mean of all ages) at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE FULL MONTY

posted on April 18th, 2016 at 3:58 PM by Steven Stanley

The sextet of laid-off upstate New York factory workers with plans to offer Buffalo gals a night of full-frontal fun are centerstage once more as 3-D Theatricals debuts its couldn’t-be-better revival of the 2000 Broadway hit musical The Full Monty.

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posted in Musical, Orange County, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

IN THE HEIGHTS

posted on April 18th, 2016 at 10:08 AM by Steven Stanley

In The Heights, the thrilling, entertaining, emotionally powerful Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008, has arrived at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center in a production whose triple-threat performances rival the best of the multiple professional ITH stagings I’ve seen over the past six years.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

NEXT THING YOU KNOW

posted on April 16th, 2016 at 12:20 PM by Steven Stanley

No one writes contemporary musical romcoms better than Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham, proof positive of which can be savored in Next Thing You Know, the duo’s charming, infectiously tuneful follow-up to their off-Broadway hit I Love You Because, now being given a terrific West Coast Premiere by Chromolume Theatre Company.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

DRY LAND

posted on April 12th, 2016 at 5:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Fearless only begins to describe the performances being given by Teagan Rose and Connor Kelly-Eiding, the two extraordinary young stars of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing Dry Land, now getting a riveting West Coast Premiere by The Echo Theater Company.
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INTO THE WOODS

posted on April 11th, 2016 at 11:34 AM by Steven Stanley

Cal State Fullerton’s musical theater majors once again prove themselves some of American’s Most Promising triple-threats in CSUF’s splendid big-stage revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods.
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SISTER ACT

posted on April 11th, 2016 at 9:32 AM by Steven Stanley

The convent is alive with the sound of disco as on-the-lam nightclub chantoozie Deloris Van Cartier teaches the nuns of The Holy Order of the Little Sisters of Our Mother of Perpetual Faith a lesson in Booty-Shaking For The Lord in Sister Act, the most all-around entertaining Musical Theatre West premiere in years.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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