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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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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!

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

posted on March 13th, 2016 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley

The words “frothy romp” may not be the first to pop into a theatergoer’s head when describing a George Bernard Shaw comedy, but this is precisely what the author of Man And Superman, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Saint Joan confectioned back in 1897 when he wrote You Never Can Tell (his “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better” response to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest), evidence of which can currently be savored at A Noise Within’s ever so frothy, ever so rompy revival of this lesser-known Shaw gem.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

COBY GETZUG

posted on March 12th, 2016 at 2:52 PM by Steven Stanley

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CLOUD 9

posted on March 12th, 2016 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley

Nearly four decades have passed since Cloud 9 made its West End debut, but Caryl Churchill’s comedic examination of gender and sexuality remains every bit as entertaining, as contemporary, and as downright mind-blowing in 2016 as it was in 1979, particularly as given vibrant new life by The Antaeus Company in a “partner-cast” staging that would give any Broadway revival a run for its money, albeit on a far more intimate (and infinitely more affordable) scale.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

LOUIS & KEELY: ‘LIVE’ AT THE SAHARA

posted on March 10th, 2016 at 4:04 PM by Steven Stanley

Louis & Keely: ‘Live’ At The Sahara is back, but if you think the current Laguna Playhouse might be just a carbon copy of the original 2008 Sacred Fools production, or its much-tweaked 2009 Geffen Playhouse transfer, or even of the 2015 Chicago production that transfered to the Geffen over New Years, think again. Louis Prima and Keely Smith are indeed back, but fresh and new and more crowd-pleasingly sensational than ever.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

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