ON YOUR FEET!

posted on October 8th, 2023 at 2:38 PM by Steven Stanley

Three star-caliber performances, several topnotch supporting turns, and some exciting Latin dance numbers designed to get you On Your Feet! do their best to overcome the substandard production values given The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan’s non-Equity tour at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review

LIFE SUCKS

posted on October 8th, 2023 at 2:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Uncle Vanya has probably never made audiences laugh as loudly and as often as he and his fellow Chekhovians do in Aaron Posner’s Life Sucks, the Stupid F***ing Bird playwright’s contemporary take on a 124-year-old Russian classic, now getting a fabulous Interact Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

HADESTOWN

posted on October 5th, 2023 at 12:13 PM by Steven Stanley


A nearly brand-new cast makes Hadestown’s two-week return to the Ahmanson not only a must-see for anyone who thrilled to the Best Musical Tony winner last year, but also a thrilling introduction to Anaïs Mitchell’s electrifyingly original musical smash for those discovering it for the first time.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

FOLLIES (CONCERT VERSION)

posted on October 3rd, 2023 at 8:29 AM by Steven Stanley


With a now basically unaffordable original Broadway cast of 47 (and opulent sets and costumes to match), Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies turned out to be the ideal rarely-staged gem for Musical Theatre Guild to introduce audiences to its best-ever new space at Santa Monica’s The Broad Stage, a one-night-only concert version that more than earned Sunday’s extended standing ovation.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

posted on October 1st, 2023 at 3:23 PM by Steven Stanley


An English teenager on the autism spectrum sets off on the most remarkable of coming-of-age journeys in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, ingeniously directed, gorgeously designed, and excitingly performed by some of Chance Theater’s best and most popular stars (and one very impressive newbie).
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

KILL SHELTER: THE RED CAST

posted on September 30th, 2023 at 12:30 PM by Steven Stanley


A return visit to Theatre Of NOTE to catch the “Red Cast” in Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter provides additional proof that (to quote from my original review) this is “not only one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.”
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

TOWARDS ZERO

posted on September 25th, 2023 at 11:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Haphazard casting and shaky direction make Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero the weakest Theatre 40 production since the company’s return to live, in-person programming over two years ago.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA

posted on September 24th, 2023 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


A lifetime of failed opportunities to connect weighs heavy on the hearts of the father-daughter protagonists of Anna Ouyang Moench’s haunting Birds Of North America, exquisitely acted by Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye at the Odyssey Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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