SHOOTING STAR

posted on September 18th, 2011 at 7:36 PM by Steven Stanley


There’s something about airport terminal waiting areas that makes them ripe with dramatic possibilities. A few years back, Departures provided the writer-actors at the NoHo Arts Center with over half a dozen waiting area vignettes, and earlier this year, Having It All’s female fivesome met cute and bonded while stranded waiting for postponed flights.  Now it’s former couple Reed and Elena who happen upon each other in a blizzard-bound Midwest airport twenty-five years post-love affair in Steven Dietz’s Shooting Star, getting its West Coast Premiere at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on September 17th, 2011 at 2:30 PM by Steven Stanley


One of the most exciting things about live theater is being able to see favorite plays and musicals revived with new actors tackling iconic roles, new directors putting their stamp on familiar material, and new design teams giving old shows new looks.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, WOW!

CABARET

posted on September 16th, 2011 at 3:54 PM by Steven Stanley


It takes chutzpah to fiddle with a classic and heaps of talent to pull it off, both of which Tony-nominated director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge does to breathtaking effect in her brilliant revisal of Joe Masterhoff, John Kander, and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret for Reprise Theatre Company.
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posted in Musical, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

FALSETTOS

posted on September 12th, 2011 at 4:12 PM by Steven Stanley


William Finn’s Falsettos has made a rare return visit to Los Angeles in an absolutely splendid production at the brand new Third Street Theatre.  To paraphrase one of its songs, “What More Need I Say?”
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, WOW!

GOOD NEWS

posted on September 11th, 2011 at 9:27 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
For the past ninety years, Whittier Community Theatre has been offering amateur thespians the opportunity to trod the boards while still maintaining their day jobs—to the delight of these eager and often very talented performers and of the audiences who get to see friends and family showing off their triple threats.
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posted in Musical, Recommended, San Gabriel Valley

WHAT’S WRONG WITH ANGRY?

posted on September 10th, 2011 at 3:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Celebration Theatre opens its 29th season, and its first with John Michael Beck as its Artistic Director, with an all-around sensational revival of Patrick Wilde’s What’s Wrong With Angry?, brilliantly directed by Michael Matthews, impeccably performed by a cast of ten, and stunningly designed by some of L.A.’s finest creative talents. Need I say more?
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

THE WAR CYCLE: GOSPEL ACCORDING TO FIRST SQUAD

posted on September 9th, 2011 at 3:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Let’s say you want to tell a gripping, “ripped from today’s headlines” war story—and you’re operating on a tight budget. You can spend $11,000,000 as Kathryn Bigelow did for The Hurt Locker (and that’s cheap for a Hollywood flick).  Or how about this for a suggestion?  For maybe one-tenth of one percent of that budget, you can produce The War Cycle: Gospel According to First Squad, currently generating equivalent sparks at The Powerhouse Theatre. Talk about a no-brainer!
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

WEST SIDE STORY

posted on September 8th, 2011 at 12:29 PM by Steven Stanley


As any Broadway buff will tell you, there’s Broadway pre-West Side Story, and everything else since then.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, WOW!

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