COMPANY

posted on October 29th, 2015 at 2:11 PM by Steven Stanley


Company’s dropped by Candlelight Pavilion to celebrate Bobby’s 35th birthday as Inland Valley Repertory Theatre debuts its marvelously performed midweek revival of Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony-winning Best Musical of 1970.
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ABUNDANCE

posted on October 29th, 2015 at 12:00 AM by Steven Stanley

Imagine a big-screen Technicolor Western Epic told as if women had run the studios with a contemporary indie sensibility back in Hollywood’s Golden Era and you’ll get an idea of Beth Henley’s Abundance, the Crimes Of The Heart scribe’s look back at a quarter-century of Wyoming history in a play now celebrating its 25th-anniversary with a pitch-perfect South Coast Repertory revival.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

NEED TO KNOW

posted on October 27th, 2015 at 4:58 PM by Steven Stanley

Among the many advantages to New York City living, moving in next door to a man like Mark Manners is not one of them, or so a couple of L.A.-to-NYC transplants discover in Jonathan Caren’s seductively suspenseful comedy Need To Know, now getting a world-class World Premiere at Rogue Machine.
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RENT

posted on October 25th, 2015 at 6:01 PM by Steven Stanley

Rent is back … in the big-stage, big-talent production the now iconic Jonathan Larson Broadway smash deserves, news which ought to send every Renthead zooming over to La Mirada to catch as sensational a regional Rent as you’ll ever see.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

SCOTT AND HEM

posted on October 24th, 2015 at 4:04 PM by Steven Stanley

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway spend an evening together in a place called The Garden Of Allah in Mark St. Germain’s Scott And Hem, an enjoyable bit of Hollywood nostalgia now getting a terrifically acted Falcon Theatre production under the snappy direction of Falcon favorite Dimitri Toscas.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM

posted on October 23rd, 2015 at 10:54 AM by Steven Stanley

If you’re a Stephen Sondheim fan here in L.A., you’ve likely enjoyed Side By Side By Sondheim and/or Putting It Together, perhaps multiple times. Chances are, however, that you’ve never seen a Stephen Sondheim Revue starring none other than Steve himself (albeit on video), which is why International City Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Broadway’s 2010 Sondheim On Sondheim comes as news worth trumpeting far and wide.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

WICKED LIT 2015

posted on October 22nd, 2015 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Wicked Lit is back for 2015 at Altadena’s Mountain View Mausoleum And Cemetery, a venue so mysterious and spooky that it’s helped make this creepy, kooky trio of terrorific one-acts an annual L.A. tradition for the past half-dozen years and counting.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

WEST SIDE STORY

posted on October 20th, 2015 at 5:08 PM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre follows its multiple Scenie-winning In The Heights with that show’s half-century-earlier predecessor, the one that started it all, West Side Story, and like ITH, WSS is one of Candlelight’s finest productions to date.
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