IN THE HEIGHTS

posted on March 29th, 2014 at 12:22 PM by Steven Stanley

The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2008 with its original Tony-winning choreography and orchestrations, its original Tony-nominated Broadway scenic and costume designs, and a cast of some of Southern California’s finest triple-threats…  All of this adds up to the very first Broadway-scale L.A.-adjacent regional production of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In The Heights, one of the finest Cabrillo Music Theatre productions ever.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

A STEADY RAIN

posted on March 28th, 2014 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley


Two superb actors stand in for the proverbial “cast of thousands” to make for as thrillingly visual a ninety minutes of edge-of-your-seat theater as you’d get in any big-screen blockbuster, as the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the Los Angeles Premiere of Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain under Jeff Perry’s electric direction.
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A SONG AT TWILIGHT

posted on March 27th, 2014 at 5:55 PM by Steven Stanley

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

21st Century society may have progressed considerably since the mid-1960s when Noël Coward wrote and starred in A Song At Twilight, but a cursory glance at today’s Hollywood makes it clear that even a half-century-old play can express contemporary truths, particularly when revived as splendidly as is the case this month and next at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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ALEX MENDOZA

posted on March 26th, 2014 at 4:14 PM by Steven Stanley

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CARLY WIELSTEIN

posted on March 26th, 2014 at 4:08 PM by Steven Stanley

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CRAZY FOR YOU

posted on March 24th, 2014 at 8:56 PM by Steven Stanley

The songs are all Gershwin, the dancing is virtually non-stop, and the entertainment value is sky-high in the Tony-winning Best Musical of 1992 Crazy For You, which Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre is now reviving to justified audience cheers.
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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

posted on March 24th, 2014 at 3:35 PM by Steven Stanley

The lives of couple dozen “unimportant” Dubliners are bestowed the significance they deserve in Torrance Theatre Company’s beautifully performed intimate-stage production of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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LEND ME A TENOR

posted on March 22nd, 2014 at 2:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor may not be the funniest play ever written, but if it isn’t, it certainly comes darned close, as Actors Co-op’s pitch-perfect revival makes abundantly, hilariously clear.
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