AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS

posted on December 10th, 2011 at 7:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Amahl And The Night Visitors’ return to the Pasadena Playhouse stage for one weekend only is red-letter news indeed, for opera fans and newbies alike regardless of age. Once again impeccably directed by Stephanie Vlahos and performed by a stellar cast headed by Suzanna Guzman and Caleb Glickman, the Gian Carlo Menotti one-act is a one-of-a-kind holiday treasure.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, WOW!

ROSES IN DECEMBER

posted on December 9th, 2011 at 5:20 PM by Steven Stanley

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A formal invitation to a class reunion is but the first of dozens upon dozens of letters exchanged between the Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs at Prescott College and one of its most celebrated graduates, renowned author Joel Gordon, in Victor L. Cahn’s Roses In December, now playing at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Recommended, West Side/Beverly HIlls

CHRISTMASTIME IS QUEER 4

posted on December 7th, 2011 at 10:13 PM by Steven Stanley


The talented writers and actors of Playwrights 6 are back onstage at Celebration Theatre for the first time in seven years with the latest installment of their popular anthology of holiday/LGBT-themed one-acts, Christmastime Is Queer 4. Despite not even a dash of the nudity that made 2004’s Christmastime Is Queer 3: Naked Christmas particularly memorable, this all-new collection of playlets may well be the best of the bunch so far.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

RUTH WILLIAMSON

posted on December 6th, 2011 at 3:49 PM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS

posted on December 5th, 2011 at 11:46 PM by Steven Stanley

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That particularly English form of musical entertainment known as panto is back in North Hollywood for the holiday season, terrific news for the kiddies—and for any adults willing to act like a kid for ninety minutes of fractured fairytale fun.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Recommended

LAST CHRISTMAS II THE NORTH POLE STRIKES BACK OR “RETURN OF THE MAGI”

posted on December 5th, 2011 at 11:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Santa Ana’s Theatre Out celebrates the holiday season with a primetime sequel to their 2008/2009 late night hit, Darcy Hogan’s Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart But The Very Next Day You Said You Were Gay, this time titled Last Christmas II The North Pole Strikes Back Or “Return Of The Magi”–and the results are an hour of tuneful, risqué, often hilarious December merriment with a decidedly gay twist.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

HEY, MORGAN!

posted on December 5th, 2011 at 10:51 PM by Steven Stanley


“Certain girls are born to greatness. Others don’t know what their place is. But whether you’re Michelle Obama, or selling tickets at the Cinerama, the story lives inside of you, a tale in every life.”

Little did Morgan Farkas (not her real last name) realize when she invited former high school classmate Isaac Laskan (his real last name) to become her post-college roommate that her not-so-extraordinary life would become the inspiration for an hour-long chamber musical that’s taken Los Angeles by storm (or at least as much as any show running in a 30-seat theater can be said to take a big city by storm). 
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS

posted on December 3rd, 2011 at 2:36 PM by Steven Stanley


A beautiful young woman marries an elderly widower only to find herself irresistibly attracted to his twenty-five-year-old son, with whom she begins a torrid affair behind her septuagenarian hubby’s back. Wishing to insure that the old man’s property remains tied to wife rather than son, the ingenious beauty connives to conceive a child with her lover and pass it off as her aged spouse’s. Murder ensues.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, WOW!

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