FAMILY PLANNING

posted on July 18th, 2014 at 4:54 PM by Steven Stanley

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Burbank’s Colony Theatre opens its 40th Season with Michelle Kholos Brooks’ entertaining if overly familiar Family Planning, and while the World Premiere comedy’s couple of battling 70something ex-spouses will likely appeal to the Colony’s post-retirement-age regulars, particularly as brought to life by TV’s venerable Bruce Weitz and Christina Pickles, the coming year’s bolder later selections appear more apt to revitalize the Colony’s aging subscriber base than its Season 40 opener.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Recommended, Theater Review, World Premiere

DAMN YANKEES

posted on July 15th, 2014 at 5:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Few 1950s musicals have stood the test of time as well as Damn Yankees, proof positive of which can now be seen at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium in 3-D Theatricals’ pitch-perfect revival of the 1955 Broadway gem.
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posted in Musical Revue, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on July 14th, 2014 at 12:15 PM by Steven Stanley

La Belle et La Bête have brought their “tale as old as time” to Long Beach as Musical Theatre West offers Angelinos an absolutely sensational regional production of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

IN THE HEIGHTS

posted on July 12th, 2014 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In The Heights now arrives in Anaheim Heights (sorry, make that Anaheim Hills) in as fine an intimate staging as any you could hope to see of the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008, Chance Theater mainstays Oanh Nguyen and Kelly Todd directing and choreographing with their accustomed brilliance, aided and abetted by a sensational young cast.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY

posted on July 11th, 2014 at 7:34 AM by Steven Stanley

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When playwright Kris Andersson and his Tupperware Lady alter ego “Dixie Longate” debuted their “one-woman” show Dixie’s Tupperware Party at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival, little did they realize that ten years later, their comedy confection would earn a slot at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse. As to whether it merits a run at one of L.A.’s most prestigious regional houses … Well, I’ll say this for Dixie and her honest-to-gosh Tupperware party: There are far less entertaining ways to spend an evening at the theater than in the presence of the trailer-trashy redhead and her multi-colored plastic bowls, canisters, jars, and other assorted gadgets.
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posted in Comedy, National Tour, Recommended, Solo Performance, West Side/Beverly HIlls

TWO GROOMS: BIG GAY NORTH HOLLYWOOD WEDDING REDUX

posted on July 7th, 2014 at 9:45 AM by Steven Stanley

You don’t have to be gay to add Two Grooms: Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding Redux to your Must-See List. In fact, this astutely tweaked reprise of 2009’s smash hit A Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding is fabulous entertainment for theatergoers of all sexual/gender shadings, and what’s even better, it’s all real … or the next best thing.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

FLIM FLAM: HOUDINI AND THE HEREAFTER

posted on July 6th, 2014 at 1:23 PM by Steven Stanley

“Spiritualism” may not be the first word to spring to mind when master illusionist/escape artist Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson-creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are mentioned, but it is precisely this fascinating but lesser-known aspect of the two men’s lives on which playwright Gene Franklin Smith has based his World Premiere drama Flim Flam: Houdini And The Hereafter, now entertaining and elucidating audiences at Malibu Playhouse.
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THE CURSE OF OEDIPUS

posted on July 5th, 2014 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Spending time with the Ancients has rarely if ever been as exhilarating as it is in Kenneth Cavander’s The Curse Of Oedipus, an Antaeus Company World Premiere which proves that even the deadly dullest of theatrical genres, Greek Tragedy, can end up the opposite of boring when given fresh new life by the right creative team.
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