THE GAYEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER

posted on January 1st, 2013 at 12:48 PM by Steven Stanley


Though it’s now too late for L.A. theatergoers to catch this holiday season’s return engagement of Joe Marshall’s The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever!, this reviewer did manage to squeeze in the final performance of this hilarious (and much improved for 2012) December gem.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, WOW!

2012 Statistics Announced: StageSceneLA reviews by Area and Genre

posted on December 26th, 2012 at 2:45 PM by Steven Stanley

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SHERLOCK’S LAST CASE

posted on December 24th, 2012 at 1:14 PM by Steven Stanley


The world’s most famous detective pays North Hollywood a visit as The Group Rep presents Charles Marowitz’s delightful Sherlock’s Last Case as their end-of-year offering. Though not the inspired staging Actor’s Co-op gave us a few years back, director Larry Eisenberg and a talented cast offer Angelinos a crowd-pleasing comedy at a time when most L.A. stages are dark for the holidays.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, WOW!

ONE NOVEMBER YANKEE

posted on December 23rd, 2012 at 1:28 PM by Steven Stanley

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A single-engine Piper J-3 Cub airplane crashes in the New Hampshire woods, its two passengers soon arriving at the inexorable conclusion that neither is likely to survive the freezing winter night. Playwright-director Joshua Ravetch takes this incident and expands upon it in unexpected ways in One November Yankee, now getting its World Premiere production at North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts Center.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Recommended

DIRTY FILTHY LOVE STORY

posted on December 22nd, 2012 at 12:50 PM by Steven Stanley


The dirt and filth in Rob Mersola’s hilarious World Premiere comedy Dirty Filthy Love Story isn’t what its title may lead you to expect, though there is indeed plenty of R-rated raunch once the sexual sparks ignite between its in-love-&-lust protagonists.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, WOW!

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

posted on December 19th, 2012 at 5:03 PM by Steven Stanley


Talk about The Addams Family and the oldest among us will recall the darkly humorous single-panel cartoons that appeared in the New Yorker from 1938 on. Boomers will instantly flash back to the black-and-white mid-1960s sitcom of the same name, and their children will remember either the ‘73 or ‘92 animated Addams Family series, or the ’91 film adaptation (or either of its two sequels). And that’s not counting The New Addams Family (the late ‘90s remake of the original TV series) or an Addams family video game and even an Addams family pinball machine.

Still, it wasn’t until two years ago that Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Cousin It made their Broadway debut in the 725-performance The Addams Family, and it is that Drama Desk and Drama League Award-winning musical that has arrived at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts in its hilarious, crowd-pleasingly revised First National Tour.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, WOW!

IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS

posted on December 17th, 2012 at 4:12 PM by Steven Stanley

There may not be snow on the ground in San Diego this (or any) year, but this Christmas will indeed be White—for the next week at least—thanks to the folks at San Diego Musical Theatre, who are bringing the live stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas to L.A.’s neighbor to the South. With ever imaginative director Todd Nielson at the helm, and a quartet of stellar triple-threats in the leading roles, SDMT’s Irving Berlin’s White Christmas delivers plenty of holiday entertainment.

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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

SCROOGE IN ROUGE

posted on December 16th, 2012 at 6:31 PM by Steven Stanley


Ebenezer Scrooge is back for another Christmas in San Diego, and should this news provoke a “Seen that, done that” groan from A Christmas Caroled-out holiday theatergoers, let me clarify. The Scrooge in question is the leading lady of Diversionary Theatre’s musical comedy smash Scrooge In Rouge, returning to Diversionary for the first time since its Scenie-winning 2008 debut, once again the holiday season’s campiest, craziest, most laugh-out-loud Christmas show—and not just for LGBT audiences.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

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