EL GRANDE CIRCUS DE COCA-COLA

posted on August 31st, 2015 at 9:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Impresario extraordinario Pepe Hernandez is back, una sensacional bit of news for anyone looking for 90 minutos of nonstop hilardad. Simplemente put, El Grande Circus De Coca-Cola, now playing at the Skylight Theatre, is the funniest show you’re likely to see in todo el año de 2015.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

SONDHEIM UNSCRIPTED

posted on August 29th, 2015 at 5:31 PM by Steven Stanley

The improvisational geniuses who call themselves Impro Theatre are back at the Falcon with another of their surefire crowd-pleasers, Sondheim UnScripted, confectioning a fabulously original “Stephen Sondheim musical” each and every time they take the stage.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME

posted on August 27th, 2015 at 4:43 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED

Frank MacGuinness may have written Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me back in the early 1990s, but the Irish playwright’s seriocomedic look at three Westerners held hostage somewhere in the Middle East remains, nearly a quarter century later, as timely as today’s headlines, as San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre imaginatively directed revival makes clear.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Recommended, Theater Review

SHREK THE MUSICAL

posted on August 24th, 2015 at 3:46 PM by Steven Stanley

The big green ogre known throughout the world as Shrek comes to magical musical life under the Vista stars as Moonlight Stage Production offers San Diego-area audiences a supremely crowd-pleasing staging of the multiple Tony-nominated Broadway hit Shrek The Musical.

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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

CAFÉ SOCIETY

posted on August 24th, 2015 at 1:00 AM by Steven Stanley

Zaniness reigns supreme in Peter Lefcourt’s screwball Café Society, now getting a terrifically performed, imaginatively directed, cleverly designed World Premiere at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre, the ever so “Westside” laughfest marred only by a jarring 11th-hour tonal shift that bears rethinking.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

FENCES

posted on August 23rd, 2015 at 11:11 AM by Steven Stanley

International City Theatre revives August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award-winning Fences to stunning effect in a production sure to win universal acclaim for its director, its two extraordinary stars, its equally stellar supporting cast, and indeed everyone involved in this most powerful of stagings.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

IN THE HEIGHTS

posted on August 17th, 2015 at 11:08 PM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion tops everything it’s done over the past year—and that includes Evita, The Producers, Spamalot, and last month’s Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat—with a sensational mid-summer staging of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In The Heights.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, World Premiere, WOW!

LUKA’S ROOM

posted on August 15th, 2015 at 1:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Leave it to Rob Mersola, the playwright who gave audiences Backseats & Bathroom Stalls and Dirty Filthy Love Story, to subvert the teenage coming-of-age tale in the most outrageously unexpected of ways in Luka’s Room, the latest Rogue Machine World Premiere and sure to be one of this summer’s most buzzed-about productions.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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