SEVEN SPOTS ON THE SUN

posted on October 5th, 2015 at 12:52 PM by Steven Stanley

A brutal civil war’s effects on the lives and psyches of the residents of a pair of neighboring Latin American villages gets examined—and grippingly so—in Martín Zimmerman’s gut-wrenchingly powerful Seven Spots On The Sun, now being given the kind of West Coast Premiere at Pasadena’s The Theatre @ Boston Court that most young playwrights can only dream of.
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A BRIGHT NEW BOISE

posted on October 4th, 2015 at 12:50 PM by Steven Stanley

A man undergoing a crisis of faith attempts to reconnect with the teenage son he gave up for adoption eighteen years ago in Samuel D. Hunter’s dark, gritty tragicomedy A Bright New Boise, now getting an electric Orange County production at Chance Theater.
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PSYCHO BEACH PARTY

posted on October 3rd, 2015 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Alfred Hitchcock meets Beach Blanket Bingo as only Tony-nominated playwright Charles Busch can mash the two of them together in Theatre Out’s deliciously over-the-top Psycho Beach Party, directed with flamboyant flair by Tito Ortiz.
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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY

posted on October 1st, 2015 at 11:48 PM by Steven Stanley

Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Jersey Boy Frankie Valli, Judy Garland, Mandy Patinkin, Julie Andrews, Michael Crawford, and more. They’re all onstage—or close facsimiles thereof—for the next three nights as the Segerstrom Center For The Arts presents the hilarious, legendary off-Broadway revue Forbidden Broadway. (read more)

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IN YOUR ARMS

posted on September 28th, 2015 at 4:59 PM by Steven Stanley

Dance and romance reign supreme in In Your Arms, as thrilling an Old Globe World Premiere as I’ve seen in a good long while and one that most definitely deserves to be Broadway-bound.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

posted on September 28th, 2015 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley

A pair of Ovation-winning leading men, a sextet of glamorous drag queens, and a dozen or so Jerry Herman show tunes are just three reasons to take a road trip down south to catch San Diego Musical Theatre’s splendid revival of Herman’s and Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage Aux Folles.
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HOMEFREE

posted on September 27th, 2015 at 11:47 PM by Steven Stanley

When choosing Homefree, Lisa Loomer’s compelling, often devastating look at a trio of homeless teens, as the first production of its 2014-2015 season, the Road Theatre Company could not possibly have imagined that only four days after Opening Night, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti would publicly declare a “state of emergency” on homelessness, words that would render the latest Road World Premiere as timely as this week’s headlines.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE BAKER’S WIFE

posted on September 26th, 2015 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Actors Co-op breathes fresh new life into Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s largely forgotten The Baker’s Wife, still a delicate, tuneful, très charmant gem of a musical some forty or so years after Angelinos first discovered it in a “pre-Broadway” tour that never quite made it to the Great White Way.
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