PRIVATE EYES

posted on January 17th, 2016 at 3:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Reality and fiction. Truth and lies. Has any playwright had more fun fooling (and delighting and engaging) an audience than Steven Dietz does in Private Eyes, the best straight-play production I’ve seen at Santa Monica’s venerable community theater, the Morgan-Wixson, and one that easily holds its own against the top professional houses in town.
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DEN OF THIEVES

posted on January 16th, 2016 at 6:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Organized crime meets a quartet of disorganized would-be criminals to wild and wacky effect in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Den Of Thieves, now getting a hilarious 20th-anniversary revival by 2Cents Theatre Group.
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THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY

posted on January 16th, 2016 at 11:16 AM by Steven Stanley

The Absolute Brightness Of Leonard Pelkey, James Lecesne’s hilarious, touching stage adaptation of his 2008 novel has arrived as a guest production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre only months after generating plenty of well-earned off-Broadway buzz for its author-performer.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Recommended, Theater Review, World Premiere

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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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

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