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

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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!

THE PLAYGROUND

posted on November 21st, 2011 at 10:26 PM by Steven Stanley

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Homeless youth are given a voice—a singing voice—in Michael Leoni’s ambitious, sprawling “street rock musical” The Playground, now playing at Hollywood’s Met Theatre under the playwright’s direction.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Recommended

THE WEDDING SINGER

posted on November 21st, 2011 at 4:28 PM by Steven Stanley


The Department Of Theatre And Dance at Cal State Fullerton follows last spring’s Footloose: The Musical with yet another sensational salute to the 1980s, Chad Beguelin, Tim Herlihy, and Matthew Sklar’s The Wedding Singer, an adroitly concocted blend of music, comedy, and ‘80s nostalgia. Utterly delightful from start to finish, this is a “student production” in name only, and one that easily rivals the best our local CLOs have to offer.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

posted on November 20th, 2011 at 10:26 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
The thousands of angry Orange Countians who picketed or emailed the Chance Theater in outraged protest over Jerry Springer: The Opera, the company’s recently Ovation Awarded Best Intimate Theatre Musical, will have to look elsewhere this holiday season for a show to get their knickers in a twist over, or at least not on the nights or afternoons that Anne Of Green Gables is being performed.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Recommended

AS IS

posted on November 19th, 2011 at 3:22 PM by Steven Stanley


The year was 1985 and New York City’s gay male population was gripped by a fear akin to that which the citizens of London must have felt in 1665 at the outbreak of the Great Plague. Only four years had passed since a New York Native news article headlined “Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded” had reassured its readers not to worry about grapevine tales of a so-called “gay cancer.” By 1985, that disease, or more accurately put, that syndrome had its very own acronym, though it was not until that very year that President Ronald Reagan finally said the word AIDS in public. There were 5636 known AIDS-related deaths in the United States in 1985.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

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