JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

posted on March 10th, 2015 at 5:46 PM by Steven Stanley

DOMA Theatre Company puts a cutting-edge contemporary spin on Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, bringing it into the 21st Century world of cell phones and selfie sticks for one of DOMA’s most spectacular shows to date.
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BABY WITH THE BATHWATER

posted on March 8th, 2015 at 11:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Wacky is the word for Baby With The Bathwater. Winningly wild and wonderful apply too to Christopher Durang’s 1983 comedy classic, as does gut-bustingly hilarious, a bathtub full of adjectives and adverbs that make the latest from Diversionary Theatre well worth a San Diego road trip this month.
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FUGUE

posted on March 7th, 2015 at 1:39 PM by Steven Stanley

A trio of classical music composers, each involved in a deadly love triangle, find their lives interwoven fugue-style—and quite stylishly indeed—in Fugue, Tommy Smith’s mesmerizing meditation on music and madness (and musicians driven mad by love), the latest World Premiere from Echo Theater Company and one of the most provocative evenings of theater you’re likely to experience for some time to come.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

LIGATURE MARKS

posted on March 4th, 2015 at 11:04 AM by Steven Stanley

Edgy contemporary romcom meets seductive classic film noir as the latter might unfold in an addictive online multi-player computer game not so coincidentally titled “Noir” in Mac Rogers’ Hollywood Fringe Festival hit Ligature Marks, recast, redirected, and restaged by Theatre Unleashed in a production that held me in its quirky, funny, romantic, fatal-attraction spell from intriguing start to breathtaking finish.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

THE PRODUCERS

posted on March 3rd, 2015 at 7:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Pavilion undertakes one of its biggest and most ambitious musicals to date, Mel Brooks’ multiple Tony-winning The Producers, and the result is another Candlelight crowd-pleaser filled with laughter, music, and dancing galore.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

INSIDE OUT

posted on March 3rd, 2015 at 6:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Group therapy has never been more entertaining—or more tuneful—than it is in Doug Haverty and Adryan Russ’s 1995 off-Broadway musical Inside Out, back for an all-star 20th Anniversary revival at Burbank’s Grove Theatre Center.
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JOHNNY GUITAR THE MUSICAL

posted on March 2nd, 2015 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED

Whittier Community Theatre celebrates 93 years of entertaining audiences (and providing local 9-to-5ers a stage on which to strut their stuff by night) with Johnny Guitar The Musical, the campy off-Broadway adaptation of the 1954 Joan Crawford potboiler-turned-cult classic.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Recommended, Theater Review

CLOSER THAN EVER

posted on March 1st, 2015 at 12:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Four of the most gloriously-voiced actor-singers in town, clever musical staging by the Ovation-winning Janet Miller, over two-dozen of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire’s most melodious and insightfully worded songs, and a superbly played 9.5-foot-long concert grand add up to a thoroughly captivating Closer Than Ever at Burbank’s Hollywood Piano. Lighting may be rudimentary, the set may consist simply of a red velvet curtain, four stools, and said piano, and the folding-chair seating as back-challengingly uncomfy as it gets, but oh the performances! Oh the songs!
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