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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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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!

A LOVELY LINEAGE

posted on February 16th, 2015 at 2:19 PM by Steven Stanley

When you grow up the granddaughter of both an MGM movie musical goddess and the pop vocalist who took “Laura” to the top of the Hit Parade, your lineage is a lovely one indeed, as this past year’s Scenie-winning Director/Star Of The Year Kristin Towers-Rowles makes abundantly clear in A Lovely Lineage, her musical tribute to her Hollywood heritage.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

SONS OF THE PROPHET

posted on February 16th, 2015 at 12:44 PM by Steven Stanley

“We’re like the Kennedys without the sex appeal” quips 29-year-old Joseph Douaihy about his woe-beset blue-collar Eastern Pennsylvania family in Stephen Karam’s extraordinary new play Sons Of The Prophet, now getting its Los Angeles Premiere at Hollywood’s The Blank, as fine an example as one could wish for of just how crucial the Los Angeles 99-Seat Plan is to our city’s one-of-a-kind intimate theater scene.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

SOUTH PACIFIC

posted on February 15th, 2015 at 6:08 PM by Steven Stanley

If there’s one thing Musical Theatre West’s old-meets-new revival of South Pacific makes abundantly clear, it’s this: Few 20th-century musicals can match the 1949 Rodgers & Hammerstein classic in absolute brilliance.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

posted on February 14th, 2015 at 2:27 PM by Steven Stanley

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus and both sexes (and the battles between them) are as entertaining as male-female battles get in The Los Angeles New Court Theatre’s terrifically performed revival of Joe Di Pietro and Jimmy Roberts’ two-decade-old—but eternally relevant—smash off-Broadway musical revue I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

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