BUYER & CELLAR

posted on October 29th, 2024 at 10:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Emerson Collins delivers the solo performance of the year (opposite none other but Barbra Streisand herself) in Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar, the latest winner from The Sixth Act.
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posted in San Fernando Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

MURDER ON THE LINKS

posted on October 28th, 2024 at 10:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Steven Dietz has taken Agatha Christie’s 1923 whodunnit Murder On The Links and adapted it as a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek six-actor farce that only the most diehard Christie purist could fail to love.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

ROBBIN, FROM THE HOOD

posted on October 27th, 2024 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley


Robbin, from the Hood, goes head-to-head with a multibillion-dollar conglomerate in Marlow Wyatt’s invigorating follow-up to 2023’s Best-of-the-Year Scenie-winning SHE.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

CAROLE COOK DIED FOR MY SINS

posted on October 25th, 2024 at 10:43 AM by Steven Stanley

A sumptuous production design and a theatrical venue in L.A.’s hip Los Feliz district help distinguish Mason McCulley’s Carole Cook Died For My Sins from the slew of autobiographical solo performances on stage each summer at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, Theater Review, World Premiere

SOMEONE LIKE ME / IN WHOSE EYES?

posted on October 22nd, 2024 at 9:43 AM by Steven Stanley

Art Of Acting Studio debuts two very different World Premiere one-acts, Richard Gustin’s Someone Like Me and George Kappaz’s In Whose Eyes?, and in the case of the former, you’ll be seeing a quite different play than the one reviewed here.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Short One-Act, World Premiere, WOW!

AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON

posted on October 21st, 2024 at 9:36 AM by Steven Stanley


To sell or not to sell. That is the question at the heart of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, an October gift from A Noise Within to the playwright’s many fans, and even for those like this reviewer who’d prefer it if Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle decalogy didn’t run a hefty three hours each, this is easily one of his most entertaining and powerful works.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

posted on October 20th, 2024 at 12:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Inspired direction, pitch-perfect performances, and a gorgeous production design combine to make Antaeus Theatre Company’s 2024 season opener about as perfect a The Importance Of Being Earnest as any Oscar Wilde lover could wish for.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

GUYS AND DOLLS

posted on October 18th, 2024 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Damon Runyon’s picturesque band of New York denizens continue to delight audiences almost seventy-five years after their Broadway debut in Altadena Music Theatre’s lively outdoor revival of the 1950 Broadway classic Guys And Dolls.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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