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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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

GUYS AND DOLLS

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

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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!

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

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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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