FALLING

posted on November 5th, 2013 at 12:09 AM by Steven Stanley


The challenges of caring for a fully-grown, severely autistic adult child are dealt with powerfully, insightfully, and with occasional refreshing bursts of humor in Deanna Jent’s Falling, now getting a Grade-A West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

posted on November 3rd, 2013 at 2:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre West opens its 61st consecutive season with a sensational remounting of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, one of the few musicals you can feel safe in inviting even your most Broadway-musical-phobic friends to for a monstrous good time.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE

posted on November 3rd, 2013 at 12:40 PM by Steven Stanley


What a difference a director can make, and by director I mean MaryJo DuPrey, whose vision for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at Actors Co-op has inspired an outstanding cast and brilliant team of designers to take a play about which I had previously expressed decidedly mixed feelings and turned it into a psychological thriller par excellence.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE

posted on November 1st, 2013 at 12:48 AM by Steven Stanley


Following in the footsteps of last year’s award-winning Cymbeline, A Noise Within returns for a new season of classical theater with one more of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” once again prompting the question, “What on earth could the so-called ‘problem’ be?” when the play in question yields results as magical as these?
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

SONG AND DANCE

posted on October 30th, 2013 at 5:51 PM by Steven Stanley


A stellar Robin De Lano and seven terrifically talented dancers made magic yesterday as Inland Valley Repertory Theatre closed its 2013 season with a two-performance only staging of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Song And Dance at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion
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posted in Musical Revue, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

posted on October 28th, 2013 at 9:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Scenie-winning choreographer Janet Renslow wears both director’s hat and choreographer’s chapeau this time round as Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater presents a terrific revival of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, the Broadway adaptation of the 1954 MGM musical movie hit.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

ENDGAME

posted on October 28th, 2013 at 10:59 AM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

There are plays that grab you from their opening moments and keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. And then there’s Endgame, the latest from A Noise Within.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Not Recommended, Pasadena, Theater Review

RABBIT HOLE

posted on October 27th, 2013 at 12:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Run, do not walk, to the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, where McCoy Rigby Entertainment is treating theater lovers to an absolutely brilliantly directed, acted, and designed production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

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