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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OTHER DESERT CITIES

posted on June 7th, 2015 at 12:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities has arrived 175 miles west of Palm Springs at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre in a production that makes it abundantly clear why the 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist stands as one of the best written, most thought-provoking, and ultimately most moving plays of the last decade.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on June 6th, 2015 at 11:23 AM by Steven Stanley

DOMA Theatre Company returns for its second sensational show of the year with a head-bangingly thrilling intimate staging of Green Day’s American Idiot.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MARY POPPINS

posted on June 6th, 2015 at 8:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Forget practically perfect. Only someone as nitpicking as Mary Poppins herself could find nits to pick with the Disney and Cameron Mackintosh Broadway smash as produced to utter perfection by La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

posted on June 4th, 2015 at 11:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Musicals don’t get any more dark and twisted (or come with scores any more gorgeous) than the rarely staged Sweet Smell Of Success, just two of the many reasons to catch UC Irvine’s sensational all-student production, one that rivals the best our professional companies have to offer, albeit with a far more youthful cast.
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