PSYCHO BEACH PARTY

posted on October 3rd, 2011 at 11:23 AM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

No one sends up popular film genres with a campier (i.e. gayer) sensibility than Charles Busch, whether it’s the “Oriental” melodramas of Hollywood’s Golden Era in Shanghai Moon, or those ’50s/’60s Ross Hunter soap operas in Die! Mommy! Die!, or WWII “Women In Peril” thrillers in The Lady In Question, or the red-baiting propaganda films of the late ’40s/early ’50s in Red Scare On Sunset.
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posted in Comedy, Not Recommended, Orange County

UP

posted on October 2nd, 2011 at 5:56 PM by Steven Stanley


The recent spate of It Gets Better videos could easily have been made with the teenage protagonists of Bridget Carpenter’s Up in mind. Fifteen-year-old Mikey, though not gay, is “different” enough to get pushed around and called “faggot.” As for Mikey’s new friend Maria, the six-months-pregnant sixteen-year-old was sent packing when her “drunk bitch” of a mom found out her little girl had gotten herself knocked up.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, WOW!

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

posted on October 2nd, 2011 at 12:25 AM by Steven Stanley


The 1952 MGM Musical classic Singin’ In The Rain gives Downey Civic Light Opera its best production since 2009’s My Fair Lady, one that judging from the enthusiastic reaction of Friday’s Opening Night audience could well prove DLCO’s biggest hit in as many years.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, WOW!

RICHARD O’BRIEN’S THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

posted on October 1st, 2011 at 2:23 AM by Steven Stanley


How does one review the revival of a camp classic? How does a reviewer deal with that oxymoronic juxtaposition of camp and classic? Can something “so bad it’s good” actually achieve the status of a classic?
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

NOISES OFF

posted on September 29th, 2011 at 11:52 AM by Steven Stanley


Imagine a production of one of those hilarious English farces like No Sex Please, We’re British whose actors are still struggling with their lines, have yet to master the requisite comic timing, and still haven’t learned when to enter and exit. Lines will be forgotten, jokes won’t get their payoff, cues will be missed, and the entire production an absolute mess. Certainly not one you’d pay to see, right?
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, WOW!

LIZ SHIVENER

posted on September 27th, 2011 at 6:55 PM by Steven Stanley

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posted in Interview

STEVEN STANLEY INTERVIEWED LIVE ON LA LA LAND

posted on September 27th, 2011 at 12:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Watch all three parts of Steven Stanley’s interview with Brett Chapin and Neti Leddel.
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posted in Interview

SOUTH STREET

posted on September 26th, 2011 at 4:34 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
A phenomenal cast of Broadway and regional theater triple threats open the  Pasadena Playhouse’s 2011-2012 season with South Street: A New Musical Comedy, directed by the multitalented Roger Castellano and choreographed by the always terrific Dana Solimando.  If only the World Premiere musical matched their talents.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Recommended

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