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!

J.D. DRISKILL

posted on December 2nd, 2011 at 4:34 PM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

posted on November 29th, 2011 at 8:51 PM by Steven Stanley


Several years before Cher responded to Nicolas Cage’s declaration of love with a “Snap out of it!” and a pair of slaps in the now classic romcom Moonstruck, its Oscar-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley gained theatrical fame with Danny And The Deep Blue Sea, a two-character one-act “Apache Dance” performed by a pair of protagonists who make Moonstruck’s Ronny and Loretta seem positively angelic by comparison. These two characters, Roberta and Danny, are now brought to vivid, gutsy, mesmerizing life by Juliet Landau and Matthew J. Williamson in Crown City Theatre Company’s stunning revival of the early ‘80s Shanley gem.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, WOW!

STEPHANIE VLAHOS

posted on November 28th, 2011 at 10:52 PM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

ANGELS IN AMERICA: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES

posted on November 28th, 2011 at 10:08 PM by Steven Stanley


If ever there’s been a reason for Los Angeles playgoers to plan a road trip to San Diego, it’s ion theatre company’s current revival of Tony Kushner’s rarely produced Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, presented in two parts, making for a total of over six hours of thrilling, event-status theater.
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posted in Drama, San Diego County, WOW!

CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE)

posted on November 27th, 2011 at 1:23 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
The walls have eyes…and ears and a mouth and arms and legs in Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake), Sheila Callaghan’s surreal family drama, now playing at Sacred Fools Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Recommended

CRIMES OF THE HEART

posted on November 23rd, 2011 at 5:39 PM by Steven Stanley


Having earlier this year joined forces to bring Los Angeles their multiple Scenie Award-winning production of David Auburn’s Proof, Open Fist Theatre Company and Aquila Morong Studio For Actors are reunited once again for a terrific intimate theater revival of Beth Henley’s Crimes Of The Heart.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

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