KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

posted on April 2nd, 2023 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley


You may have read Manuel Puig’s novel. You might have watched its Oscar-winning movie adaptation. If you’re a musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen it set to the songs of Kander and Ebb. But chances are you haven’t experienced the powerful theatrical two-hander Puig himself adapted from his book, just one of many reasons not to miss Kiss Of The Spider Woman’s stunningly acted, directed, and designed debut at A Noise Within.
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posted in Pasadena, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL

posted on April 1st, 2023 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Forty talented performers and the magic of Dr. Seuss fill the Colony Theatre stage as it’s never been filled before in Seussical The Musical, a song-and-dance-packed treat for kids and adults of all ages.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

posted on March 27th, 2023 at 4:10 PM by Steven Stanley


Terrific lead and featured performances make The Fable Theatre’s back-to-basics intimate revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along at the Whitefire a tasty Sondheim lover’s treat.
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posted in Musical, San Fernando Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

UNRIVALED

posted on March 26th, 2023 at 4:11 PM by Steven Stanley

I was often tickled but only occasionally engaged by the madcap antics and contemporary speak of the trio of 11th-century Japanese women whose friendship/enmity (frenmity?) Rosie Narasaki writes about in Unrivaled, now getting its World Premiere as a Boston Court Pasadena-Playwrights’ Arena co-production.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere

PICNIC

posted on March 25th, 2023 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


An African-American cast, a decade-later timeframe, and a hit-packed ’60s R&B soundtrack revitalize William Inge’s 1953 classic Picnic in John Farmanesh-Bocca’s ground-breaking new intimate revival for Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE THIN PLACE

posted on March 20th, 2023 at 4:05 PM by Steven Stanley


You don’t have to believe in psychic phenomena to find yourself spellbound by Lucas Hnath’s mysterious and spooky The Thin Place, the latest Echo Theater Company winner at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY?

posted on March 19th, 2023 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley


Move over Little Shop Of Horrors. There’s a new killer musical in town and it’s Randy Rogel’s murderously clever dark-comedy gem Did You Hear What Walter Paisley Did Today?, now making its World Premiere debut at the La Mirada Theatre.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE LONELY FEW

posted on March 18th, 2023 at 12:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony-winning sensation Lauren Patten returns to SoCal theater as a queer musician trapped in smalltown Kentucky in The Lonely Few, a Geffen Playhouse World Premiere that shifts somewhat jarringly halfway through from a dramatic play interspersed with live rock club performances into a more traditional musical in which songs take the place of dialog.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

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