TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN

posted on August 13th, 2024 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley


That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

HUMAN ERROR

posted on August 11th, 2024 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley


A fertility clinic snafu wreaks hilarious havoc on the lives of two married couples, one Red State, one Blue State, in Rogue Machine Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s smart, topical, and very, very funny Human Error.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on August 10th, 2024 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley


Dramatic and compelling and jam-packed with equal parts spectacle and heart, The Nocturne Theatre’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is all this and more, though not however a kids-friendly family musical like Disney’s The Little Mermaid or Beauty And The Beast.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

IF I NEEDED SOMEONE

posted on August 6th, 2024 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Drunken hookups aren’t what they used to be, at least according to Neil LaBute in his undeniably provocative, bitingly funny, and potentially button-pushing World Premiere two-hander If I Needed Someone at Santa Monica’s City Garage Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on August 5th, 2024 at 4:51 PM by Steven Stanley


The volunteer performers lighting up the James Armstrong Theatre stage give the pros a run for their money in Torrance Theatre Company’s dazzlingly designed, imaginatively directed, and delightfully performed big-stage, live-orchestra production of Disney The Little Mermaid.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, WOW!

COMPANY

posted on August 3rd, 2024 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley


Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s legendary Company has come to the Hollywood Pantages in what just might be the most thrillingly reimagined revival in Broadway musical theater history.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

CLUE

posted on August 1st, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

posted on July 30th, 2024 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre is back with an entertaining mid-sized revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the University of La Verne.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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