INTO THE BREECHES!

posted on June 12th, 2023 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright George Brant reinvigorates the backstage comedy with Into The Breeches!, his crowd-pleasing look at a theater company that refused to go under when its male actors went off to do battle in World War II.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

LOVE, DOLLY

posted on June 10th, 2023 at 9:48 AM by Steven Stanley


Dolly Parton fans will find themselves transported to country music heaven this weekend and next as Kim Eberhardt performs her spot-on tribute to Tennessee’s very own Backwoods Barbie, the lovingly titled Love, Dolly, at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

STARMITES

posted on June 5th, 2023 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Starmites might possibly be the least remembered Best Musical Tony nominee of the 1980s, but there’s nothing in the least bit forgettable about Open Fist Theatre Company’s irresistibly entertaining intimate revival of the 1989 Broadway gem.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

posted on June 4th, 2023 at 11:16 AM by Steven Stanley


Rarely has so much entertainment value been packed into just ninety minutes plus intermission than in La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s thrillingly directed and performed revival of the international musical smash Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

BACK PORCH

posted on June 3rd, 2023 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Eric Anderson pays affectionate tribute to William Inge in Back Porch, the play Inge might himself have written had mid-20th-century Middle America not kept the gay Kansan locked tightly in the closet.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL

posted on June 2nd, 2023 at 5:27 PM by Steven Stanley

Center Theatre Group celebrates diversity just in time for Pride Month with A Transparent Musical, an exhilarating but overlong adaptation of the hit TV series Transparent.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere

NO PLACE LIKE GANDERSHEIM

posted on May 28th, 2023 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley

A terrific cast score plenty of laughs in No Place Like Gandersheim, Elizabeth Dement’s time-traveling screwball feminist farce, but the Skylight Theatre World Premiere tries too hard to do too much for it to work the way it should.
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A SOLDIER’S PLAY

posted on May 26th, 2023 at 10:08 AM by Steven Stanley


Whodunnits don’t get any more edge-of-your-seat, and National Tours don’t get any more spectacular, than Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony-winning revival of A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller’s eye-opening look at racism on a segregated WWII-era military base, now keeping audiences on the edge of their seats at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

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