THE MADWOMAN IN THE VOLVO

posted on January 13th, 2016 at 4:00 PM by Steven Stanley

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Solo queen Sandra Tsing Loh has arrived at South Coast Rep with a couple of guest actresses in tow for The Madwoman In The Volvo, an autobiographical look at menopause and infidelity more likely to appeal to female theatergoers forty-five and older than to those who don’t fit this specific demographic.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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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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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