TROUBLE IN MIND

posted on October 6th, 2024 at 6:51 PM by Steven Stanley

A stunning Kimi Walker delivers what may well be a career-best lead performance in Actors Co-op’s mostly successful revival of pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble In Mind.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

posted on September 30th, 2024 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Star turns don’t get more stunning than the pair delivered by Kim Huber and Valerie Larsen in Musical Theatre Guild’s spectacular one-night-only concert staged reading of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s The Light In The Piazza.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES

posted on September 30th, 2024 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

A GOING AWAY PARTY PLAY

posted on September 29th, 2024 at 5:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Keyanna Khatiblou pays tribute to her Iranian father and English mother while recounting the events leading up to and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 amidst a party attended by four of her closest friends in A Going Away Party Play, and if the playwright’s approach is too all-over-the-place to be entirely successful, there is still much to recommend in this Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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3 FACES OF STEVE: SONDHEIM IN CONCERT

posted on September 23rd, 2024 at 9:17 AM by Steven Stanley


It’s Stephen Sondheim heaven at the Odyssey as 3 Faces Of Steve: Sondheim In Concert treats musical theater lovers to over two dozen of the Broadway legend’s greatest hits, with some lesser-known ditties thrown in to spice up the mix.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

WAITRESS

posted on September 22nd, 2024 at 9:42 AM by Steven Stanley


The winningest Broadway musical romcom since Elle Woods stole hearts in Legally Blonde finally gets its Southern California regional theatre premiere as La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment treat SoCal audiences to Waitress.
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PASCAL AND JULIEN

posted on September 22nd, 2024 at 9:42 AM by Steven Stanley


A boy in search of a father. A man who wants nothing more than to be left alone with his crossword puzzles. A year of unexpected changes in both their lives. This is Daniel Keene’s Pascal and Julien, the magical U.S. Premiere from the 24th Street Theatre.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

BROOKLYN’S WAY

posted on September 22nd, 2024 at 9:41 AM by Steven Stanley

An on-fire Amye Partain is a definite find, but an off-putting male protagonist, an overly tangled time frame, and an approach that takes meta to the extreme do neither the play’s leading lady nor the audience any favors in Sam Henry Kass’s Brooklyn’s Way, a Theatre 68 World Premiere.
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