THE MONGOOSE

posted on March 7th, 2016 at 12:44 PM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

Acting, direction, and design are all Grade A in The Mongoose, but what on earth prompted The Road Theatre Company to give Will Arbery’s head-scratcher of a script the go-ahead?
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Not Recommended, Theater Review

DUSK RINGS A BELL

posted on March 6th, 2016 at 3:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Stephen Belber’s dramatic, romantic, heartbreaking Dusk Rings A Bell provides a compelling acting showcase for two of the finest young talents in town, Brea Bee and Wes McGee.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

SUMMER AND SMOKE

posted on March 6th, 2016 at 10:16 AM by Steven Stanley

Hollywood’s increasingly risk-taking Christian-based Actors Co-op takes a walk on the wild(er) side with its terrifically acted revival of Tennessee Williams’ Summer And Smoke, one that provides a surprising number of laughs along the way to the dramatic second act you might expect from the man who heated things up with A Streetcar Named Desire and Suddenly Last Summer.
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VIEUX CARRÉ

posted on March 4th, 2016 at 5:12 PM by Steven Stanley

Memories light the corners of Tennessee Williams’ mind in Vieux Carré, the Great American Playwright’s reminiscences of time spent in New Orleans’ French Quarter, revived to vibrant, excitingly theatrical life by Coeurage Theatre Company under Jeremy Lelliott’s inspired direction.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

ONLY THE MOON HOWLS

posted on March 2nd, 2016 at 12:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Star-crossed love gets a fresh new highly theatrical spin as Theatre Unleashed gives Dean Farell Bruggeman’s 50-minute Hollywood Fringe Festival gem, Only The Moon Howls, a thoroughly engaging first full staging.
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POCATELLO

posted on February 28th, 2016 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Small lives matter in Pocatello, just as they do in all of Samuel D. Hunter’s “Idaho plays,” the latest of which now gets an impressive West Coast Premiere by the theater company that gave L.A. audiences Hunter’s equally memorable A Bright New Boise and A Permanent Image.
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BROKEN FENCES

posted on February 27th, 2016 at 12:18 PM by Steven Stanley

The effects of urban gentrification on two Chicago couples, one upwardly mobile and white, the other financially challenged and black, are examined in Broken Fences, a Road Theatre Company World Premiere whose star performances and impressive production design largely overcome the tonal inconsistencies and missed opportunities of Steven Simoncic’s thought-provoking, often quite powerful script.
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A CLASS ACT

posted on February 22nd, 2016 at 8:25 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony winner Edward Kleban had been gone for thirteen years when Broadway finally gave the songwriter his due (albeit for a scant 135 performances, previews included) in the biomusical A Class Act, the latest one-night-only concert staged reading from Musical Theatre Guild, and one that could scarcely have been improved upon.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

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