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!

THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP

posted on October 26th, 2013 at 1:22 PM by Steven Stanley


The next laugh is never more than a few seconds away as the Falcon Theatre presents Charles Ludlam’s The Mystery Of Irma Vep, one of the most hilarious comic spoofs ever—and a showcase for director Jenny Sullivan and its two brilliant leading men/women Matthew Floyd Miller and Jamie Torcellini.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HOMOSEXUALS

posted on October 26th, 2013 at 11:25 AM by Steven Stanley


The flamboyant theater queen who lives to rag on this year’s Tony winners. The average-looking all-around good gay who’s everybody’s best friend and nobody’s boyfriend. The foreign-born charmer living with HIV—though no longer with his (married-her-for-a-green-card) wife. The small-town boy whose move to the big city has meant making gay friends—and a new life he could never have had back home.

We’ve seen these gay men, or gay men like them, on stage before, most notably in the pre-Stonewall world of Mart Crowley’s The Boys In The Band and in the AIDS-crisis world of Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion!

Now, young Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins brings these gay archetypes into the 21st Century in his 2011 Jefferson Award-nominated dramedy The Homosexuals, now being given a couldn’t-be-better West Coast Premiere by Celebration Theatre.

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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

WHEN YOU WISH The Story Of Walt Disney

posted on October 24th, 2013 at 11:31 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
Director extraordiniare Larry Raben and choreographer par excellence Lee Martino team up with an all-around fabulous cast to make the very most of book, music, and lyric writer Dean McClure’s World Premiere bio-musical When You Wish (The Story Of Walt Disney), though for producers to dub it a “Pre-Broadway production” is wishful thinking indeed.
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posted in Musical, Recommended, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

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