HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

posted on August 20th, 2023 at 9:58 AM by Steven Stanley


If the idea of spending two hours listening to Catholic conservatives inveigh against abortion, LGBT rights, and other left-wing causes sounds off-putting, think again.

There’s a reason why Will Arbery’s Heroes Of The Fourth Turning, now getting an absolutely sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Los Angeles Premiere, was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. There’s a reason why the New York Times called it “astonishing and riveting.”
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A PERFECT GANESH

posted on August 15th, 2023 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

Theatricum Botanicum takes a break from the Bard in its otherwise entirely Shakespearean 2023 season with Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, a play not nearly as appealing as McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, It’s Only A Play, Master Class, Corpus Christi, and Love! Valour! Compassion!
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

THE RED SUITCASE

posted on August 13th, 2023 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley


Growing up gay in the Deep South is no picnic for the protagonist of Jiggs Burgess’s laugh-out-loud funny, get-out-the-Kleenex moving The Red Suitcase, a P3 Theatre Company World Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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PETER PAN GOES WRONG

posted on August 12th, 2023 at 11:05 AM by Steven Stanley


The laughs keep coming and coming and coming as the mishaps keep piling up in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the side-splittingest show to play the Ahmanson since The Play That Goes Wrong had audiences rolling in the aisles four years back.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

DORIS AND IVY IN THE HOME

posted on August 7th, 2023 at 5:15 PM by Steven Stanley


Norm Foster invites audiences to spend a couple of hours with Doris And Ivy In The Home, the prolific Canadian playwright’s latest laugh-packed crowd-pleaser at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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KINKY BOOTS

posted on August 7th, 2023 at 4:47 PM by Steven Stanley

Torrance Theatre Company follow’s last summer’s professional-caliber The Addams Family with the 2013 Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, though this time round the results are considerably more mixed.
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LES MISÉRABLES

posted on August 5th, 2023 at 9:21 AM by Steven Stanley


Les Miz is back, and more gorgeous to listen to and look at than ever, as the Pantages welcomes the latest U.S. tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s legendary musical juggernaut Les Misérables.
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PIPELINE

posted on August 4th, 2023 at 9:53 AM by Steven Stanley


The son of an African-American inner-city high school teacher struggles to fit into the posh private academy his divorced parents have sent him to in Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, a critically acclaimed Lincoln Center hit whose gripping Los Angeles Premiere marks a major coup for the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company at The Art Of Acting Studio in Hollywood.
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