CLIFFTON HALL & DEEDEE MAGNO HALL

posted on January 12th, 2016 at 7:16 PM by Steven Stanley

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TIMESHARE

posted on January 11th, 2016 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley

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A ragtag sales staff’s attempts to convince would-be buyers to take a chance on the proverbial “deal of a lifetime” add up to a series of wild-and-wacky Act One vignettes till a pre-intermission plot twist sends Steve B. Green’s World Premiere comedy Timeshare into darker, somewhat less successful territory.
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AWAKE & SING!

posted on January 10th, 2016 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley


Clifford Odets’ Depression-era drama Awake & Sing! has reopened at the Odyssey Theatre for a January extension, exciting news indeed for fans of the kind of big-cast, big-issue Great American Classics that don’t get written anymore.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

posted on January 8th, 2016 at 6:36 PM by Steven Stanley

Glendale Centre Theatre welcomes in 2016 with a terrifically directed and performed 80th-anniversary revival of You Can’t Take It With You, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comedic look at the charmingly eccentric Vanderhoff/Sycamore clan, a multigenerational family residing together in perfect, if oddball, harmony in a large New York City home circa 1936.
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ANOTHER ANTIGONE

posted on January 4th, 2016 at 1:29 PM by Steven Stanley

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A.R. Gurney’s smartly comic look at university life (and the Greek classics) circa the late 1980s gets a welcome if imperfect revival at The Group Rep, one that could benefit from a more assured directorial vision and a more credible female lead performance.
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THE KILL-OR-DIES

posted on January 3rd, 2016 at 11:50 AM by Steven Stanley

Ovation Award-winning playwright Meghan Brown is back with the intriguingly titled The Kill-Or-Dies, a darkly comedic edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing from its first surprise twist all the way up to its gratifyingly unpredictable finish.
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THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’

posted on December 27th, 2015 at 12:48 PM by Steven Stanley

1960s blue-eyed soul lives again in That Lovin’ Feelin’, a Twin Cities dinner theater hit now being given a West Coast Premiere that transcends James A. Zimmerman’s rather by-the-number script thanks largely to the thrilling musical performances of Morgan Lauff as Bill Medley and Brenden MacDonald as Bobby Hatfield, aka The Righteous Brothers.
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WHO KILLED SANTA?

posted on December 25th, 2015 at 5:33 PM by Steven Stanley

The white-bearded Fat Man In Red has been candy-caned to death and it’s up to the audience to decide who amongst five iconic Christmas characters “dunit” in Neil Haven’s Avenue Q-inspired, R-rated Who Killed Santa?, a Milwaukee perennial since 2008 now making its West Coast debut at Theatre 68, and while those who insist upon sophistication, refinement, and wit may want to look elsewhere for their holiday entertainment, Haven’s cult smash does what it sets out to do. It makes you laugh.
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