44 THE MUSICAL

posted on March 1st, 2025 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Has life under 47 got you down? If so, head on over to the Kirk Douglas Theatre where 44 The Musical’s rollicking, raunchy, R&B-packed look back at Barack Obama’s first term in office has arrived to provide L.A. audiences with a spirits-lifting respite from the DJT blues.
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posted in Musical Spoof, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

BACON

posted on February 25th, 2025 at 12:30 PM by Steven Stanley


Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

FOUR WOMEN IN RED

posted on February 23rd, 2025 at 10:55 AM by Steven Stanley

The missing and murdered Indigenous women Laura Shamas writes about in Four Women In Red deserve a better play and production than the latest Victory Theatre World Premiere.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, World Premiere

DESPERATE MEASURES

posted on February 22nd, 2025 at 3:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Take a classic Shakespeare plot, chop out all the boring and confusing parts, and transform it into a song-packed Wild West musical romcom and what you’ve got is the off-Broadway hit Desperate Measures, now cheering audiences at International City Theatre.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MACBETH

posted on February 21st, 2025 at 4:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Transposing William Shakespeare’s Macbeth from the bleak moors of Scotland to the sultry streets of New Orleans is just the first of director Andi Chapman’s multiple strokes of genius in re-envisioning The Scottish Play to all-around stunning effect at A Noise Within.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

JERSEY BOYS

posted on February 17th, 2025 at 10:43 AM by Steven Stanley


It’s taken over twenty years for Jersey Boys to make it from Broadway to National Tour to its Long Beach Regional Premiere, but the sensational production Musical Theatre West is now treating its audiences to makes it well worth the two-decade wait.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MASTER CLASS

posted on February 15th, 2025 at 11:47 AM by Steven Stanley


Musical theater star Joan Almedilla delivers a tour-de-force performance as opera legend Maria Callas without even singing a note in Terrence McNally’s Master Class at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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posted in Play With Songs, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS

posted on February 14th, 2025 at 4:58 PM by Steven Stanley


Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

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