FAILURE: A LOVE STORY

posted on July 26th, 2015 at 12:29 PM by Steven Stanley

A superb cast, a brilliant design team, and above all the directorial genius that is Michael Matthews join forces to turn Coeurage Theatre Company’s Los Angeles Premiere of Failure: A Love Story, Philip Dawkins’ whimsical meditation on the fragility of life and the resiliency of those who live it, into one of the year’s most stellar 99-seat-plan productions.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE

posted on July 24th, 2015 at 12:18 AM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

The Elephant Theatre goes out with a fizzle instead of a bang with the World Premiere of Lyle Kessler’s family dysfunction-fest The Great Divide, a play so credibility-defying that not even the best efforts of director David Fofi and an excellent cast can save it—and its audience—from the dull-drums.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL

posted on July 23rd, 2015 at 4:22 PM by Steven Stanley

Ren McCormick is back, and every bit as hell-bent on securing his all-American freedom to dance as he was on the silver screen some three decades ago, as Laguna Playhouse gives Broadway’s Footloose The Musical an infectiously crowd-pleasing revival.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

SUBURBAN SHOWGIRL

posted on July 21st, 2015 at 5:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Manhattanites will be in for a treat when Palmer Davis takes her self-penned, self-performed Suburban Showgirl to the New York United Solo Festival (on 42nd Street no less) this coming November.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

posted on July 20th, 2015 at 7:10 PM by Steven Stanley

Take a handsome Old Testament hero with eleven brothers envious of his Coat Of Many Colors, a Pharaoh straight out of Graceland, and an American Idol-ready Narrator, stir in imaginative direction and some of the most energetic choreography in town, and top it off with tunes written by a very young (and not yet knighted) Andrew Lloyd Webber and what you’ve got is Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s latest—and one of its very best—big-stage musicals: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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HAIRSPRAY

posted on July 19th, 2015 at 1:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Chance Theater reinvents Hairspray—and brilliantly so—for an immersive, intimate, (almost) in-the-round revival unlike any I’ve seen before … and trust me, I’ve seen a bunch.
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OKLAHOMA!

posted on July 18th, 2015 at 12:54 PM by Steven Stanley

Dance reigns supreme in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s rousing revival of the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II classic Oklahoma!, billed as “The Musical That Reinvented American Musical Theatre,” a phrase that still rings true nearly three-quarters of a century after it revolutionized Broadway.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL

posted on July 18th, 2015 at 9:51 AM by Steven Stanley

Working 9 to 5 may be “no way to make a living,” but watching office gals Judy, Doralee, and Violet and triumph over their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss makes for one absolutely delightful afternoon or evening of summertime entertainment at Glendale Centre Theatre under Martin Lang’s snappy direction.
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