ROOM SERVICE

posted on September 23rd, 2023 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

Sluggish pacing drags down the Group Rep’s 2023 revival of John Murray and Allen Boretz’s Room Service despite a delightful first act and a number of snappy performances.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review

HOW IT’S GON’ BE

posted on September 19th, 2023 at 12:03 PM by Steven Stanley


A black teenager comes of age to both heartbreaking and heartwarming effect in JuCoby Johnson’s How It’s Gon’ Be, a dramatic stunner as universal as it is specific, and the latest must-see from Echo Theater Company.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: A WILDE NEW MUSICAL

posted on September 18th, 2023 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley


Whittier Community Theatre celebrates its long-awaited return to in-person productions (and the start of its 100th-anniversary season) with the absolutely smashing The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Wilde New Musical, a high point in WCT’s century of shows.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MEASURE STILL FOR MEASURE

posted on September 17th, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Rehearsals for Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure have life imitating art in Jessica Kubzansky’s Measure Still For Measure, a sensational Boston Court World Premiere that takes backstage drama to a whole new level.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE RIGHT IS OURS

posted on September 16th, 2023 at 10:57 AM by Steven Stanley

Tuneful songs and terrific performances do their utmost to overcome a by-the-numbers book and workshop-level production values in the Sierra Madre Playhouse World Premiere of The Right Is Ours, aka The Suffragette Musical.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, World Premiere

ALADDIN

posted on September 13th, 2023 at 10:47 AM by Steven Stanley


A guaranteed entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, Disney’s Aladdin is not only late summer’s most all-around entertaining theatrical extravaganza, it may well be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Pantages Theatre stage.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SOUND INSIDE

posted on September 12th, 2023 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Amy Brenneman delivers a bravura performance opposite gifted newcomer Anders Keith in Adam Rapp’s unnerving, electrifying The Sound Inside, a phenomenal season opener for the Tony-winning Pasadena Playhouse.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

BLOOD AT THE ROOT

posted on September 10th, 2023 at 3:44 PM by Steven Stanley


Headline-making real-life events propel Dominique Morisseau’s hot-button Blood At The Root, an Open Fist Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere given electrifying theatricality by director Michael A. Shepperd, choreographer Yusuf Nasir, and a cast of gifted young up-and-comers.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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