ROMEO & JULIET: LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD

posted on February 28th, 2015 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

Shakespeare meets Pat Benatar (with “a little love from Tina Turner”) as Rockwell Table And Stage presents their latest, Romeo & Juliet: Love Is A Battlefield, and Holy Bard Of Avon, what an electrifying evening of cabaret-meets-musical-theater alchemy it is!
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END OF THE RAINBOW

posted on February 27th, 2015 at 3:43 PM by Steven Stanley

The facts behind Judy Garland’s death on June 22, 1969 are a matter of public record. Several months after a five-week stint at London’s trendy Talk of the Town, the legendary screen/recording star was found dead at the age of 47 by fifth husband Mickey Deans in the bathroom of their rented Chelsea house, the cause of death “an incautious self-overdosage” of barbiturates.

Peter Quilter’s critically acclaimed End Of The Rainbow, now playing at Long Beach’s International City Theatre, lets us be flies on the walls of Judy and Mickey’s London hotel (and of the London nightclub as well) during that much talked about Talk Of The Town run, and a humdinger of a play and production this is under John Henry Davis’ incisive direction.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BROADWAY CAGE MATCH

posted on February 25th, 2015 at 11:12 AM by Steven Stanley

L.A.’s brightest musical theater stars square off once a month, not in the boxing ring, but in the next best thing to it, at Rockwell Table & Stage in trendy Los Feliz for Justin Jones’ and Bruce Merkle’s Broadway Cage Match.
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THE THREEPENNY OPERA

posted on February 23rd, 2015 at 11:30 PM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within kicks off its Spring 2015 season with a sensationally performed and designed revival of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. Theatergoers who’ve not acquired a taste for Brecht’s brand of early 20th-century avant-garde or Weill’s dirge-like melodies may find its three-hour running time a bit of a long haul, however those with a fondness for Threepenny (and they are, I am told, legion) will find themselves in Brecht/Weill heaven.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE OTHER PLACE

posted on February 22nd, 2015 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Trust nothing you see or hear until about halfway through the riveting, complex puzzle that is Sharr White’s The Other Place, now getting its first Los Angeles production, and a superb one at that, at North Hollywood’s 99-seat-plan Road Theatre.
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THE ROAD TO APPOMATTOX

posted on February 21st, 2015 at 10:14 AM by Steven Stanley

A war approaching its bloody end and a marriage quite possibly nearing its own death throes come together Catherine Bush’s enlightening, entertaining new dramedy The Road To Appomattox, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

WASHER/DRYER

posted on February 20th, 2015 at 2:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Sometimes all it takes to turn a cramped, overpriced, single-occupancy big-city condo into a must-own Manhattan co-op is something as seemingly trivial as a washer/dryer, which is why newlywed Sonya will do anything to maintain ownership of her co-op in Nandita Shenoy’s terrific World Premiere Comedy Washer/Dryer—even if it means pretending that her handsome hubby is merely a frequent sleep-over chum.
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ENTER LAUGHING THE MUSICAL

posted on February 18th, 2015 at 3:23 PM by Steven Stanley

A long and winding road has at last led a long-forgotten musical comedy gem from its blink-and-you-missed 1976 Broadway run to a delightfully nostalgic, laugh-out-loud hilarious, infectiously tuneful intimate revival at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts Lovelace Studio Theatre.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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