SPRING AWAKENING

posted on March 23rd, 2012 at 1:53 PM by Steven Stanley


Spring has sprung in L.A. big time with the sensational Los Angeles intimate theater debut of Spring Awakening, the Steven Sater/Duncan Sheik musical adaptation of Frank Wedenkind’s groundbreaking 1891 drama.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, WOW!

SIGHT UNSEEN

posted on March 23rd, 2012 at 12:04 AM by Steven Stanley


There are times when the order in which a writer sequences the scenes of a play or musical can be as crucial to the work’s impact as the scenes themselves. As in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal or Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, the ordering of scenes in Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen is of prime importance. Cleverly sequenced in a deliberately non-linear fashion, the eight scenes that make up Sight Unseen keep you thinking, keep you guessing, and may even provoke a gasp of surprise or recognition at key moments.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, WOW!

AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

posted on March 21st, 2012 at 6:48 PM by Steven Stanley


Patti. Mandy. Together. On stage. Live. In concert.
Need I say more?
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Ventura County, WOW!

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

posted on March 21st, 2012 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley


E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View now comes to glorious musical comedy life at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in a World Premiere adaptation by Jeffrey Stock and Marc Acito.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

ANNA CHRISTIE

posted on March 19th, 2012 at 4:32 PM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

There are times when a single performance can either salvage a play or sink it. In the case of The Old Globe’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, the latter is unfortunately true.
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posted in Drama, Not Recommended, San Diego County

PARADE

posted on March 19th, 2012 at 12:24 AM by Steven Stanley


Thirteen years after its Broadway premiere, Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Tony-winning musical Parade at long last gets its first San Diego production—one so superbly staged and performed that it more than justifies a day trip to our neighbor to the South.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

WORKING

posted on March 18th, 2012 at 12:33 AM by Steven Stanley


Following its critically acclaimed revival of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The Production Company makes it two in a row with its sensational intimate staging of Studs Terkel’s Working, as adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical Revue, WOW!

GODSPELL

posted on March 16th, 2012 at 5:36 PM by Steven Stanley


Broadway’s future headliners display the triple-threat gifts that will one day be taking them to the Great White Way in Godspell, the latest in a series of Grade-A productions to spotlight the rising stars of Cal State Fullerton’s elite Musical Theater BFA program.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

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