MATT CRABTREE

posted on December 1st, 2012 at 12:12 PM by Steven Stanley

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CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS

posted on November 30th, 2012 at 7:08 PM by Steven Stanley


The Geffen Playhouse has begun what could well turn into an annual holiday event with their World Premiere staging of Donald Margulies’ Coney Island Christmas, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s heartwarming, crowd-pleasing look back at a Brooklyn December circa 1935, directed with flair and heart by Bart DeLorenzo.
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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

MRS. MANNERLY

posted on November 28th, 2012 at 8:58 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Jeffery Hatcher takes a delightful trip down memory lane in Mrs. Mannerly, his staged memoir of an etiquette class he once took under the tutelage of Mrs. Helen Anderson Kirk, aka the Emily Post of Steubenville, Ohio.
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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES

posted on November 27th, 2012 at 6:18 PM by Steven Stanley


Chance Theater resident artist Casey Long could hardly have imagined back in 2004 that eight Christmases later he’d be performing in the Ninth Annual Chance production of The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. Yet, miracle of miracles, Casey and the rest of The Eight (reindeer that is) continue shocking and delighting Orange County audiences with year after year of raunchy, R-rated yuletide cheer, written by Jeff Goode (author of the equally adult-themed Poona The Fuckdog And Other Plays For Children).
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, WOW!

86’d

posted on November 26th, 2012 at 1:05 PM by Steven Stanley

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What happens when you take an obscure direct-to-video movie from the ‘90s, adapt it as a stage comedy, edit it down from 86 minutes to a little over an hour, give it a new title and World Premiere it at Hollywood’s Theatre 68? The answer is 86’d, an enjoyable albeit slight (and very short) comedy that has quite a bit going for it … and against it as well.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Recommended

LITTLE WOMEN THE BROADWAY MUSICAL

posted on November 25th, 2012 at 12:38 PM by Steven Stanley


Little Women The Broadway Musical returns to the Chance Theater for the first time since its maiden holiday engagement in 2009, and to paraphrase an Oscar-nominated song, the Chance hit proves even more wonderful the second time around.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

ANGELS FALL

posted on November 24th, 2012 at 5:54 PM by Steven Stanley


Confine a group of strangers in an enclosed space and what do you get? Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential classic No Exit? Michael Leoni’s smash L.A. hit Elevator? TV’s Big Brother, now in its 14th season?

To this list Los Angeles theatergoers can now add Lanford Wilson’s Tony-nominated (for Best Play of 1982) Angels Fall, now getting a marvelous intimate staging by The Production Company, a 30th Anniversary revival which not only does ample justice to Wilson’s themes but does so in the most entertaining of ways.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

HUGHIE

posted on November 22nd, 2012 at 1:24 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
Andrew Schlessinger delivers a tour-de-force performance as a down-on-his-luck hustler in Hughie, a quirky Eugene O’Neill one-act that will be of greatest interest to fans of the Nobel/Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Recommended

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