REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES

posted on September 14th, 2015 at 5:30 PM by Steven Stanley

You don’t have to be Hispanic to fall in love with the full-figured Latinas celebrated in Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves, nor do you have to travel to New York to see the crowd-pleasing comedy’s Broadway-caliber revival now playing at the historic Pasadena Playhouse.
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BIG FISH

posted on September 14th, 2015 at 2:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Big Fish The Musical may have floundered on Broadway two years back, but it’s the furthest thing from a flop given the emotional depth and heart of Steven Glaudini’s direction and the abundant pizzazz of Karl Warden’s choreography at Vista’s Moonlight Amphitheatre.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

AMERICAN FALLS

posted on September 12th, 2015 at 12:15 PM by Steven Stanley

George Gibbs and Emily Webb may have come of age over a hundred years ago in the New England equivalent of American Falls … but they had their lives a hell of a lot easier than the citizens of playwright Miki Johnson’s 21st-century Our Town, now getting an impressive Los Angeles Premiere by The Echo Theater Company.
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SIBLING RIVALRY

posted on September 7th, 2015 at 6:01 PM by Steven Stanley

A pair of one-act dramedies written sixteen years apart by two different playwrights make for one compelling, superbly acted evening of Sibling Rivalry at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

WHEN STARS ALIGN

posted on September 7th, 2015 at 5:07 PM by Steven Stanley

A mixed-race slave comes of age on a Mississippi River cotton plantation during the Civil War years in Carole Eglash-Kosoff and John Henry Davis’s epic interracial love story When Stars Align, a mini-series worth of plot compacted into two hours (plus intermission) of gorgeously-staged historical melodrama that proves involving and ultimately quite moving despite some occasionally clunky dialog along the way.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

ASSASSINS

posted on September 6th, 2015 at 9:40 AM by Steven Stanley

Haste is of the essence in catching Red Blanket Productions’ superb intimate stage revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, not simply because only weeks remain in what looks to be a sold-out run at the Pico Playhouse but because, if Actors Equity has its way, starting next June you will never again see such a 99-seat production in Los Angeles County. Ever. (More on that later.)
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GUYS AND DOLLS

posted on September 4th, 2015 at 5:43 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED

The American musical theater classic Guys And Dolls gets a mostly quite good in-the-round revival at Glendale Centre Theatre highlighted by a pair of scene-stealing Dolls—Heather Lundstedt as Sarah Brown and Ann Myers as the one-and-only Miss Adelaide.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Recommended, Theater Review

SPRING AWAKENING

posted on August 31st, 2015 at 9:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Spring Awakening, the 2006 Tony winner for Best Musical, is back in town, an event that would be considerably less newsworthy were it not for the memorable directorial debut it provides recent UCLA grad Michael Kozachenko and the musical theater showcase it offers its talented young cast, most of whom are new to L.A. stages.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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