THE HEIR APPARENT

posted on June 20th, 2015 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

As he did with Corneille’s The Liar a few years back, playwright David Ives once again works his theatrical magique on a centuries-old comédie française in The Heir Apparent, Ives’ 2014 off-Broadway adaptation of Jean-François Regnard’s 1706 farcical French bonbon Le Légataire Universelle, now delighting audiences in its Los Angeles Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

BAD JEWS

posted on June 19th, 2015 at 11:56 AM by Steven Stanley

To the list of female comedy leads that any actress would kill to play (and win awards for), a list that includes Born Yesterday’s Billie Dawn, Twentieth Century’s Lily Garland, and Lost In Yonkers’ Bella Kurnitz, you can now add the name Daphna Feygenbaum, a role that Molly Ephraim knocks out of the ball park—and then some—in the Geffen Playhouse’s West Coast Premiere of Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews, a play as hilarious as it is brilliant, and one you’ll be talking about for quite some time to come.
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MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL

posted on June 17th, 2015 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley

Motown Records founder Berry Gordy tells his life story surrounded by the Detroiters he turned into superstars in Broadway’s crowd-pleasing Motown: The Musical, now in its second year of touring the country and stopping for the next two weeks at the Segerstrom Center For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

A PERMANENT IMAGE

posted on June 16th, 2015 at 11:27 AM by Steven Stanley

Thomas Wolfe to the contrary, you can go home again, though it takes a life-altering event for adult siblings Bo and Ally to set foot anywhere near their Idaho birthplace in A Permanent Image, Samuel D. Hunter’s 2011 journey into the dark heart of the American Northwest, now getting a superb West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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ROAD SHOW

posted on June 15th, 2015 at 6:21 PM by Steven Stanley


You’re unlikely to see a fully-staged local production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s twice-flopped Road Show any time soon, all the more reason for those in attendance yesterday at Musical Theatre Guild’s one-performance-only concert staged reading to count themselves lucky, particularly since the nearly fully-staged “reading” turned out quite spectacularly indeed under Richard Israel’s ever imaginative direction.
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THE TROUBLE WE COME FROM

posted on June 13th, 2015 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

News of his girlfriend’s pregnancy sends a 30something writer on a 24-hour journey of self-discovery in Scott Caan’s World Premiere comedy The Trouble We Come From, the actor-writer’s smart, funny companion piece to his previous Falcon Theatre hit No Way Around But Through.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE KINSEY SICKS: AMERICA’S NEXT TOP BACHELOR HOUSEWIFE CELEBRITY HOARDER MAKEOVER STAR GONE WILD!

posted on June 11th, 2015 at 3:46 PM by Steven Stanley

The pulchritudinous potty-mouthed pretties who call themselves The Kinsey Sicks have treated West Hollywood to a taste of their NC-17 naughtiness before heading off for a week of West Coast touring, and as anyone who’s seen one of the queertastic quartet’s previous songfests could easily predict, The Kinsey Sicks: America’s Next Top Bachelor Housewife Celebrity Hoarder Makeover Star Gone Wild! makes for sixty sizzling minutes of double ententres and song.
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posted in Musical Revue, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

WATERFALL

posted on June 8th, 2015 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Lovers don’t get any more star-crossed than Noppon and Katherine, the star-crossed lovers of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s uber-romantic musical tearjerker Waterfall, now getting a gorgeously staged, gorgeously performed World Premiere production at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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