VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

posted on May 22nd, 2023 at 9:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Christopher Durang’s trio of hilariously squabbling siblings are back (along with a sexy boy toy named Spike) in Pacific Resident Theatre’s winning take on Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

3: BLACK GIRL BLUES

posted on May 20th, 2023 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley


TV star Danielle Moné Truitt returns to her stage roots with 3: Black Girl Blues, an alternately hilarious and devastating one-woman show about a trio of grade school best friends whose lives follow drastically different paths from their teen years on.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BOTTOMING PROCESS

posted on May 19th, 2023 at 9:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Nicholas Pilapil’s The Bottoming Process may start off as an engaging contemporary gay romcom in the same vein as Fire Island and Bros but what it ends up being is a playwright’s rancor-fueled diatribe.
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ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD

posted on May 17th, 2023 at 8:53 AM by Steven Stanley

The performances are sparkling, the melodies are tuneful, and the show’s heart is in the right place, but without a plot, dialog, or interconnected characters to keep an audience spellbound, a nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time is much too long for a song cycle like Paulo K Tiról and Noam Shapiro’s On This Side Of The World.
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posted in Los Angeles, Song Cycle, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE BOOK OF WILL

posted on May 15th, 2023 at 11:21 AM by Steven Stanley


A race against time to preserve the words of the world’s greatest playwright before they fade from memory propels Lauren Gunderson’s The Book Of Will, the fascinating, illuminating, crowd-pleasing latest from A Noise Within.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

JACK CRADDOCK IS HAVING A PARTY

posted on May 13th, 2023 at 12:04 PM by Steven Stanley


Actor Harrison Harvey proves himself an accomplished first-time playwright with Jack Craddock Is Having A Party, an incisive, insightful look at three Millennials and a Zoomer, ninety real-time minutes that start out bright and breezy, then gradually darken as lies get exposed and secrets revealed.
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UNDER THE SKIN

posted on May 8th, 2023 at 11:08 AM by Steven Stanley


A philandering father suffering from kidney failure. An estranged daughter ill-inclined to donate one of her own. A tearjerker-movie-of-the-week plot-propeller if there ever was one, but one that has inspired an honest-to-goodness comedy, Michael Hellinger’s Under The Skin, the terrific latest from International City Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

A NEW BRAIN

posted on May 7th, 2023 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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