HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 2014 REVIEWS

posted on June 29th, 2014 at 9:12 AM by Steven Stanley

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THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

posted on June 29th, 2014 at 1:18 AM by Steven Stanley

The Drowsy Chaperone, Broadway’s Valentine to Musical Theater, has been given an intimate Orange County staging at Santa Ana’s Theatre Out, one that makes it abundantly clear why the 2006 multiple-Tony winner is one of this past decade’s best—and most original—new musicals.
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DENTAL SOCIETY MIDWINTER MEETING

posted on June 27th, 2014 at 1:01 AM by Steven Stanley

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Buzzworks Theater Company returns with the often entertaining West Coast Premiere of Laura Jacqmin’s Dental Society Midwinter Meeting, and though the one-act comedy proves a hit-or-miss affair, I’d gladly take it over a January in Skokie, Illinois.
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JERSEY BOYS

posted on June 26th, 2014 at 2:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Jersey Boys, the 13th longest running show in Broadway history no less, is now making its triumphant return to Southern California with a three-week stop at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts after a seven-year absence, and that, musical theater (and Four Seasons) lovers, is cause for celebration.
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FLOWER DUET

posted on June 22nd, 2014 at 5:13 PM by Steven Stanley

Marriage is “till death do us part”—except when it isn’t—or so Max and Stephanie and Sandy and Maddie discover in Maura Campbell’s provocative Flower Duet, now getting its West Coast Premiere at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre following a 2010 World Premiere in Burlington, Vermont.
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

posted on June 21st, 2014 at 11:37 PM by Steven Stanley

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A pair of sensational performances by Sienna Farall as Maggie and Brian Robert Harris as Big Daddy elevate Theatre Palisades’ revival of Tennessee Williams Cat On A Hot Tin Roof above standard community theater fare.
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THOMAS FISCELLA

posted on June 21st, 2014 at 12:21 AM by Steven Stanley

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THE BROTHERS SIZE

posted on June 20th, 2014 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley

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The Fountain Theatre follows its multiple award-winning 2012 production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In The Red And Brown Water with the Los Angeles Premiere of the 33-year-old playwright’s The Brothers Size, and while the production is as beautifully acted as they get, I am a good deal less enamored with the second in McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays trilogy than I was with the first.
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