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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posted in Dance, San Diego County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BEST OF ENEMIES

posted on September 25th, 2015 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley

A Ku Klux Klan leader and a black Southern civil rights activist go from sworn enemies to best friends in Mark St. Germain’s truth-is-indeed-stranger—a whole lot stranger—than-fiction The Best Of Enemies, a West Coast Premiere that is also one of the finest Colony Theatre productions in years.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

posted on September 23rd, 2015 at 2:50 PM by Steven Stanley

The year’s most brilliant physical-comedy performance is but one of many reasons not to miss the West Coast Premiere of the West End/Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, now inspiring more laughs per second than any play I can recall seeing at South Coast Repertory.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

BONNIE & CLYDE

posted on September 22nd, 2015 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Bonnie & Clyde may have featured as fine a score as any of its 2011-12 Broadway competitors (including Once and Newsies), but that didn’t stop critics from making sure that Frank Wildhorn’s latest musical bit the dust after a mere two months, previews included, just one reason SoCal audiences haven’t been granted the fully-staged professional production Bonnie & Clyde so richly deserves, just one reason Angelinos can rejoice that at the very least, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow returned to life last Sunday for one night only thanks to Musical Theatre Guild.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

TRISHA RAPIER

posted on September 21st, 2015 at 11:40 PM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

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