SEAN MacLAUGHLIN

posted on December 9th, 2013 at 12:45 PM by Steven Stanley

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 8th, 2013 at 3:17 PM by Steven Stanley


A virtual Who’s Who of veteran A Noise Within resident artists join forces with a sensational design team under the inspired direction of Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott to bring audiences ANW’s first production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in a baker’s dozen years.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS

posted on December 7th, 2013 at 4:32 PM by Steven Stanley


Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is back for a second year at the Norris Center For The Performing Arts with its four fantastic leads intact, the same sensational direction and choreography, designs like those you’d expect in the best regional theater productions, and—brand new this time round—a live pit orchestra. There may be other White Christmases around town this time of year, but this is the one to see, or see again.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

BOB’S HOLIDAY OFFICE PARTY

posted on December 6th, 2013 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley


It wouldn’t be Christmas season in L.A. without Bob’s Holiday Office Party, now back for its eighteenth year, the folks of Neuterburg, Iowa even wilder and crazier than ever! Talk about good tidings of great joy!
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PARFUMERIE

posted on December 6th, 2013 at 12:19 AM by Steven Stanley


Sworn enemies remain blissfully clueless that the (e)mail friend each has fallen head over heels for (without ever having laid eyes on him/her) is none other than the one person on earth he/she simply can’t abide. It’s a formula that worked to perfection for James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around The Corner, for Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in In The Good Old Summertime, for Daniel Massey and Barbara Cook in She Loves Me, and most recently for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail. And it works once again to perfection for Eddie Kaye Thomas and Deborah Ann Woll in Parfumerie, the play that started it all back in Hungary some 76 years ago, and is now the irresistible inaugural season opener of Beverly Hills’ brand new Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 2nd, 2013 at 7:48 PM by Steven Stanley


It wouldn’t be December without Christmas carols or Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group’s latest gives Los Angeles theatergoers both in just under an hour and performed with such Zombie Joe flair that it’s hard to imagine even Christmas Carol haters not falling for this show. As for those with more traditional tastes, there’s more than enough authentic Dickens to have you leaving Zombie Joe’s Underground with a smile on your face and maybe even the traces of a few tears on your cheeks.
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CHRISTMAS 2

posted on December 1st, 2013 at 6:22 PM by Steven Stanley

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The laughs come fast and furious in SkyPilot Theatre Company’s Christmas 2, however Jeff Goode’s latest will need some pruning, tightening, and polishing if it’s going to have nearly the afterlife of his smash hit The Eight: Reindeer Monologues.
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THE FACE, Behind The Face, behind the face

posted on November 30th, 2013 at 2:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical theater performer Anthony Gruppuso takes a look at an actor’s life—and his own in particular—in his entertaining, gorgeously sung one-man show THE FACE, Behind The Face, behind the face, playing this weekend only at Theatre West.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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