A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY

posted on August 19th, 2013 at 12:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Director Jeremy Lelliott works wonders with Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day, turning a play that in other hands might seem stuffy or talky or dated into an exciting, utterly relevant evening of theater.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

PRAIRIE-OKE!

posted on August 17th, 2013 at 3:55 PM by Steven Stanley


Any resemblance between the show being reviewed here and a certain TV series that ran from 1974 to 1983 on NBC and starred Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle as a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota in the 1870s and 1880s is “entirely coincidental,” as Silverlake’s Cavern Club Celebrity Theater welcomes back master parodist Dane Whitlock’s Prairie-oke!, aka “That Totally Unauthorized Karaoke Parody Musical Formerly Known As Something Else.”
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

eve2

posted on August 16th, 2013 at 5:19 PM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

Playwright Susan Rubin experiments with the surreal in eve2, an avant-garde one-act that left me scratching my head in bewilderment.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Not Recommended, Theater Review

THE KITCHEN WITCHES

posted on August 15th, 2013 at 5:21 PM by Steven Stanley


A pair of lifelong best enemies catfight it out on the set of a community access cable TV cooking show in Caroline Smith’s entertaining if minor comedy The Kitchen Witches, now playing at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

BRITISHMANIA

posted on August 14th, 2013 at 2:19 AM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED

Though the production is bare-bones (and “John,” “Paul,” “George,” and “Ringo” probably look most Beatle-like when seen from the Laguna Playhouse back row), there’s no denying that the multitalented stars of BritishMania sound so much like The Beatles as they sing and play their way through two hours of ‘60s British pop that if you’re anything like this reviewer, this nostalgic trip back in time will end up worth a drive down to Laguna Beach.

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posted in Musical Revue, Orange County, Recommended, Theater Review

THE STARS OF BARE: Payson Lewis, Nathan Parrett, Lindsay Pearce, Jonah Platt, and Katie Stevens.

posted on August 13th, 2013 at 9:00 AM by Steven Stanley

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THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED

posted on August 12th, 2013 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
Terrific performances and an outrageously funny script add up to some very good reasons to catch Underdog Theatre Company’s production of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed despite minuses in design and staging.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Recommended, Theater Review

THE SOUND OF MOTOWN

posted on August 11th, 2013 at 10:18 PM by Steven Stanley


The hits of the Motor City reign Supreme in beautiful downtown Claremont as a dozen Wonder-fully talented young performers bring The Sound Of Motown to Candlelight Pavilion, entertaining audiences of all ages with over 4 dozen hits that are each and every one of them absolutely, positively Tops.
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posted in Musical Revue, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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