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KEO WOOLFORD

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

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?

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!

THE 39 STEPS

posted on January 22nd, 2012 at 7:30 PM by Steven Stanley

A quarter century before Cary Grant found himself pursued across the United States by enemy spies mistakenly believing him to be a CIA agent in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller North By Northwest, a young man named Richard Hannay wound up in similar straits in The 39 Steps, one of the master of the suspense’s earliest hits, and one whose now iconic sequences include a train-top chase leading to Hannay’s daredevil jump onto the Forth Bridge, a seemingly fatal shooting of our hero midway through, hero handcuffed to Hitchcock Blonde heroine as he searches for a villain recognizable only by the missing top joint on one of his fingers, and a very public climactic scene at the London Palladium, much like the one Hitchcock later filmed at the Royal Albert Hall in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, WOW!

THE WATER’S EDGE

posted on January 21st, 2012 at 5:48 PM by Steven Stanley

A man’s return visit to the wife and children he left behind seventeen years ago yields unexpected consequences in The Water’s Edge, Theresa Rebeck’s gripping family drama (with a twist), now getting a sensational Los Angeles Premiere at North Hollywood’s The Road Theatre under the inspired direction of Sam Anderson.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, WOW!

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