BECKY’S NEW CAR

posted on January 12th, 2014 at 7:42 PM by Steven Stanley


“When a woman says she wants new shoes, what she really wants is a new job. When she says she wants a new house, what she really wants is a new husband. And when she says she wants a new car, what she really wants is a new life.”

Imparting these words of wisdom is Rebecca (Becky) Foster, middle-aged wife and mother and the title character of Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car, Kentwood Players’ terrific 2014 opener at the Westchester Playhouse.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS

posted on January 12th, 2014 at 12:10 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
A terrific ensemble of Southern California triple threats and John Vaughan’s pizzazzy choreography are the best reasons to catch Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s revival of 1978’s The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, a Broadway smash that begs the question, how did this mostly forgettable musical end up running a whopping 1,584 performances on Broadway?
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bare the musical

posted on January 11th, 2014 at 3:25 PM by Steven Stanley


Orange County’s premier LGBT theater, Theatre Out, opens its first complete season in its spiffy new 4th Street Artist Village space (appropriately just down the block from trendy Santa Ana gay club Velvet Lounge) with a powerfully staged OC Premiere production of Jon Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo’s bare.
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HERSHEY FELDER IN ABE LINCOLN’S PIANO

posted on January 10th, 2014 at 8:25 PM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

Hershey Felder is back at the Geffen with his latest one-man show, Hershey Felder In Abe Lincoln’s Piano, and though Felder does treat the audience to a bit of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, unlike the smash hit Hershey Felder As George Gershwin Alone, the maestro’s latest may prove a hard sell to all but Felder fanatics.
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JAMES MAY

posted on January 6th, 2014 at 7:20 PM by Steven Stanley

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ANYTHING GOES

posted on January 6th, 2014 at 1:30 PM by Steven Stanley


Anything Goes may be scaled down to fit the 339-seat Laurence Welk Resort Theatre, but no entertainment value has been stinted in bringing the perennial 1930s favorite to crowd-pleasing life at the Welk. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a pizzazzier Anything Goes than the one now being staged down Escondido way.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS

posted on January 5th, 2014 at 1:02 PM by Steven Stanley


Glendale Centre Theatre opens its 2014 season (and celebrates six weeks of Grandparents’ Day) with an absolutely terrific revival of Joe DiPietro’s hilarious, heartstring-tugging Valentine to a quartet of Italian-American nonni any one of us would be lucky to call our own.
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MOM’S GIFT

posted on December 29th, 2013 at 3:12 AM by Steven Stanley


A ghost who can be seen by only a single living soul. An angel who must accomplish a mission before being given his or her wings. Playwright Phil Olson merges two tried-and-true genres to give L.A. audiences his latest, Mom’s Gift, a sort of Topper-meets-It’s A Wonderful Life dramedy that proves a crowd-pleaser in its World Premiere engagement for The Group Rep at North Hollywood’s Lonny Chapman Theatre.
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