OPEN HOUSE

posted on August 5th, 2013 at 12:51 AM by Steven Stanley


You’d think that a real estate agent’s attempts to close a deal with a house-for-sale’s sole prospective buyer would be slight stuff for a ninety-minute two-character play. Not so, if the play in question is Shem Bitterman’s Open House and the dueling protagonists brought to life by L.A. stage stars Robert Cicchini and Eve Gordon.
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NIGHT HAWKS

posted on August 3rd, 2013 at 12:03 PM by Steven Stanley


A pair of aging partners in murder-for-pay meet in a rundown diner for breakfast (and playwrights-only-know what else) in Dennis A. Pratt & Robert Vincent O’Neil’s crackerjack comedy-mystery-suspense thriller Night Hawks, now getting a much deserved extension at North Hollywood’s Crown City Theatre.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

posted on August 2nd, 2013 at 10:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Take a superb cast and an inspired pair of directors and have them put on one of William Shakespeare’s most audience-friendly plays in the woodsy Topanga hills on a dreamy midsummer Thursday night … and you’ve got Theatricum Botanicum’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

COMPANY

posted on July 31st, 2013 at 11:01 AM by Steven Stanley

“Phone rings, door chimes, in comes company!”

As any musical theater buff can tell you, the person whose phone is ringing and whose door is chiming and who is welcoming company into his Manhattan pad is none other than Robert, aka Bobby, aka Bob, aka Bobbo, aka Robby, aka Bobby Baby, aka Robert Darling, aka Bobby Honey, the bachelor lead of Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony-winning Best Musical of 1970, and the latest sensational offering by San Diego’s illustrious Cygnet Theatre.
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THE RAINMAKER

posted on July 30th, 2013 at 5:39 PM by Steven Stanley


You’d think that a play that ran a mere 125 performances on Broadway way back in 1954 would have faded into almost instant obscurity. Not so with L. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker, which is doing just fine and dandy nearly sixty years later, as The Old Globe’s captivating, innovative revival makes abundantly clear.
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MELVIN ABSTON

posted on July 29th, 2013 at 10:52 PM by Steven Stanley

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BRENDAN

posted on July 29th, 2013 at 8:25 PM by Steven Stanley


A young Irish immigrant adjusts to life in contemporary New York City in Ronan Noone’s Brendan, one of the best—and most entertaining and emotionally resonant—plays I’ve seen this past year, now getting an absolutely superb intimate West Coast Premiere at Theatre Banshee.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

TANGLIN’ HEARTS

posted on July 27th, 2013 at 4:17 PM by Steven Stanley


Ten singin’, dancin’ Texans get their hearts all tangled up romantically in Tanglin’ Hearts, a tuneful new musical “loosely based” on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, now getting a promising World Premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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