THE RECOMMENDATION

posted on January 31st, 2012 at 6:56 PM by Steven Stanley


What starts out as an Odd Couple-like comedy about a pair of mismatched Brown University roommates soon develops into something considerably more edgy (and edge-of-your-seat) in Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation, a terrific World Premiere drama at San Diego’s Old Globe that will keep you guessing from its exhilarating start to its suspenseful finish.
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posted in Drama, San Diego County, WOW!

DIVIDING THE ESTATE

posted on January 30th, 2012 at 9:42 PM by Steven Stanley


The late, great Horton Foote returned to the small-town Texas he knew so well—in comedic mode this time round—in his Dividing The Estate, Tony-nominated as Best Play of 2009 and now playing at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre with two-thirds of its New York cast intact, including Foote’s daughter Hallie in the role that scored her a Tony nomination.
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posted in Comedy, San Diego County, WOW!

KEO WOOLFORD

posted on January 30th, 2012 at 12:16 PM by Steven Stanley

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EXPECTING TO FLY

posted on January 30th, 2012 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley

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“There you stood on the edge of your feather, expecting to fly. While I laughed, I wondered whether I could wave goodbye, knowin’ that you’d gone.”

The strains of Neil Young’s melancholy “Expecting To Fly” provide a musical prelude to Michael Hyman’s World Premiere drama of the same name, a play which despite considerable script shortcomings nonetheless provides a terrific acting showcase for its two stars, Justin Mortelliti and Casey Kringlen, who deliver riveting performances as lovers Jared and Sean under Kiff Scholl’s highly imaginative direction.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Recommended

BOEING-BOEING

posted on January 28th, 2012 at 12:47 PM by Steven Stanley


There’ll be no louder peals of laughter in the South Bay over the next few weekends than those emanating from Rolling Hills Estates as the Norris Center For The Performing Arts presents an all-around splendid revival of Marc Camoletti’s saucy, sexy French farce Boeing-Boeing under James W. Gruessing’s sparkling direction.
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posted in Comedy, South Bay, WOW!

NOgoodDEED

posted on January 27th, 2012 at 6:46 PM by Steven Stanley


“No good deed goes unpunished,” or so Richard Jewell discovered when the mass media, having previously heralded his heroism at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, turned viciously against him, dragging the security guard through the mud without a shred of proof—or even evidence, all because he “fit” an FBI criminal profile.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW

posted on January 26th, 2012 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Here’s a quick quiz for theater aficionados:

Who can name a screwball comedy which deals with, features, or mentions all of the following: depravity, disguises, gender identity, the government, hanky-panky, hermaphroditism, homosexuality, incest, insanity, marriage, mistaken identities, nymphomania, pederasty, psychiatry, rape, religion, reunited orphan siblings, slapstick, and transvestitism?

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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM

posted on January 23rd, 2012 at 5:37 PM by Steven Stanley


Woody Allen is back on screen—and better than ever—in his critically acclaimed box-office smash Midnight In Paris, making the Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s decision to program one of Allen’s earliest hits as part of their 2011-12 season a stroke of prescient genius. That Morgan-Wixson’s staging of Play It Again Sam, Allen’s late-1960s comedy about a Humphrey Bogart-obsessed nebbish, turns out to be quite a gem of a production is icing on the cake.
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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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