ART

posted on February 2nd, 2012 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley


There’s nothing like star quality to turn yet another revival of an oft-produced play into an event—not celebrity stunt casting, but rather that combination of talent, individuality, and charisma that true stars bring to whatever project they undertake.

Such is the case with the Pasadena Playhouse’s fabulous all-star revival of Yasmina Reza’s Art, the French playwright’s Tony-winning Best Play of 1998.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, WOW!

COME FLY AWAY

posted on February 1st, 2012 at 2:21 PM by Steven Stanley


The dance moves of premier choreographer Twyla Tharp and the vocals of Ol’ Blue Eyes himself combine to captivating perfection in Tharp’s Come Fly Away, brought to vivid life by a troupe of extraordinary young dancers and an onstage big band to rival the best of Nelson Riddle, Billy May, or Neil Hefti.
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posted in Musical Revue, National Tour, Orange County, WOW!

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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posted in Interview

EXPECTING TO FLY

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

RECOMMENDED
“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!

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