KISS ME KATE

posted on December 14th, 2014 at 1:56 PM by Steven Stanley

A couple dozen of Southern California’s most talented student triple-threats bring the Cole Porter classic Kiss Me Kate to vibrant, effervescent life down Orange County way, once again making it abundantly clear why Cal State Fullerton’s musical theater BFA program is among the country’s finest in turning out Broadway-bound talent.
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The Snow QUEEN

posted on December 14th, 2014 at 1:00 PM by Steven Stanley

It wouldn’t be December at the Falcon Theater without the Troubadour Theater Company’s latest holiday treat, and this year’s The Snow QUEEN is not only one of their most entertaining extravaganzas to date, it’s one of the most musical Troubies musicals in years.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY AND HER WINTER KNIGHT

posted on December 13th, 2014 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley

Lythgoe Family Productions returns to the Pasadena Playhouse for the third December in a row with Sleeping Beauty And Her Winter Knight, this year’s Panto proving every bit as delightful to 2014 SoCal audiences of all ages as the distinctively English form of musical entertainment has been doing for the past two or three centuries in Jolly Old England.
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STRIKING 12

posted on December 11th, 2014 at 6:27 PM by Steven Stanley

Rock, folk, jazz and pop get fused for the holidays—and gorgeously, infectiously so—as the Laguna Playhouse celebrates New Year’s Eve a few weeks ahead of time with the L.A./OC Premiere of the GrooveLily musical Striking 12, and a more entertaining, exhilarating ninety minutes of nearly non-stop holiday magic you won’t find anywhere else in town.
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IT’S CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY

posted on December 9th, 2014 at 6:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in Claremont without Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s annual all-new Christmas musical, and as in Christmas seasons past, this year’s It’s Christmas Every Day makes for two hours of song-and-dance-filled G-rated Christmas entertainment.
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SHE LOVES ME

posted on December 8th, 2014 at 2:54 PM by Steven Stanley

A tale almost as old as time returns magically, musically to life as Chance Theater gives Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick’s She Loves Me a perfectly marvelous intimate staging just in time for the holiday season.
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hey brother

posted on December 7th, 2014 at 12:43 PM by Steven Stanley

A 20something Asian-American adoptee fantasizes about the sibling she might possibly have in China as a pair of North Carolina brothers find their real-life relationship considerably thornier than the one she can only imagine in Bekah Brunstetter’s World Premiere dramedy hey brother, the terrific latest from the company of young artists who call themselves Fresh Produce’d L.A.
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ALMOST, MAINE

posted on December 6th, 2014 at 11:57 AM by Steven Stanley

Plays don’t get any more magical, nor any more unabashedly romantic (with just enough salt to keep things from getting sappy) than John Cariani’s Almost, Maine, the record-breaking Most Produced Flop in off-Broadway history, now getting what well may be its first fully-cast professional Los Angeles production since its 2006 New York debut—and an absolutely wonderful one at that.
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