THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

posted on January 20th, 2012 at 3:50 PM by Steven Stanley


The Tony-winning 2006 Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone proves the best possible showcase for more than twenty talented USC undergrads (and audiences lucky enough to catch it during its sold-out six-performance run through Sunday).
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

OUR TOWN

posted on January 20th, 2012 at 1:16 PM by Steven Stanley


Rare is the theatergoer who has not seen at least one, if not half a dozen productions of Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana that first astonished audiences in 1938 with its innovative storytelling, even as it told a story as old as time itself—a story of birth, and life, and love, and death.
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

LONESOME TRAVELER

posted on January 19th, 2012 at 3:03 PM by Steven Stanley


There’s a hootenanny down yonder in Laguna Beach these days as the Laguna Playhouse presents the Rubicon Theatre production of Lonesome Traveler, a nostalgic trip down folk music memory lane, from the early part of the 20th Century to the mid-‘1960s, when the screeches of Bob Dylan’s electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival signaled the end of an era.
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posted in Musical Revue, Orange County, WOW!

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

posted on January 16th, 2012 at 11:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Emmy-winning writer JP Miller examines the devastation wrought by alcoholism on a young couple’s marriage in his best-known work, Days Of Wine And Roses, now being revived to powerful effect at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

HARLEY JAY

posted on January 16th, 2012 at 3:05 PM by Steven Stanley

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AVENUE Q

posted on January 15th, 2012 at 8:10 PM by Steven Stanley


Avenue Q has arrived on Broadway—at 202 N. Broadway in Santa Ana, that is—making for just about the best musical theater news in town, particularly since the Theatre Out downscaling of the Tony-winning Broadway smash is just about as perfectly staged as an intimate-theater musical can be.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

posted on January 14th, 2012 at 2:04 PM by Steven Stanley


Irish playwright Martin McDonagh might well have entitled his first play, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, No Exit, for that’s how trapped its mother-daughter protagonists find themselves in the 1996 black comedy that put McDonagh on the playwriting map. Nominated for a 1998 Best Play Tony Award and winner of Best Play Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane now gets an intimate Los Angeles staging that ends up easily The Production Company’s finest effort since moving into its larger Hollywood digs a year ago.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

NERVE

posted on January 13th, 2012 at 3:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Try to recall the most disastrous blind date you’ve ever had, then multiply that by ten, and you’ll have some idea of just how bad Elliot and Susan’s blind date is in Adam Szymkowicz’s quirky, romantic, highly original Nerve, now getting its Los Angeles premiere under the inspired direction of Michael Matthews.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, WOW!

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