KRUNK FU BATTLE BATTLE

posted on May 18th, 2011 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley


East West Players closes its best season in years with Krunk Fu Battle Battle, quite possibly the first full-fledged hip-hop musical ever, and a sensational one at that.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

LIFE OF RILEY

posted on May 15th, 2011 at 10:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Stan Walker. Godot. Maris Crane. Rosaline. The Little Red-Haired Girl. Mrs. Columbo. Bunbury. Mort Guffman.

To the above list of talked-about-but-never-seen characters of stage and screen fame can now be added George Riley, a man whose impending death has all the onstage characters in Alan Ayckbourn’s seventy-fourth full-length play in a tizzy.
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posted in Comedy, San Diego County, WOW!

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

posted on May 14th, 2011 at 5:38 PM by Steven Stanley


When a show gets called “flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years” by none other than the New York Times, then goes on to win both the Tony and the Pulitzer in addition to the Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, and Outer Critics Circle awards, there’s nothing StageSceneLA can say to add to the excitement surrounding its arrival at San Diego’s Old Globe. But here goes:
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posted in Drama, San Diego County, WOW!

ALL SHOOK UP

posted on May 13th, 2011 at 5:22 PM by Steven Stanley


Who says lightning doesn’t strike twice? Who says you can’t improve on perfection? Well, whoever said either of those things clearly hasn’t seen 3-D Theatricals’ 2nd-Time-Around production of All Shook Up.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

REEFER MADNESS

posted on May 12th, 2011 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


“Creeping like a communist, it’s knocking at our doors—turning all our children into hooligans and whores. Voraciously devouring the way things are today, savagely deflowering the good ol’ U.S.A.—it’s Reefer Madness. Reefer Madness.”
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, WOW!

DOOLEY

posted on May 11th, 2011 at 1:06 AM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

Sometimes no matter how much a production has going in its favor, it simply doesn’t work for a reviewer, no matter the quality of the talent onstage. Diversionary Theatre’s World Premiere play Dooley is just such a production.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Not Recommended, San Diego County

THE CHAIRS

posted on May 11th, 2011 at 12:58 AM by Steven Stanley


A pair of nonagenarians are the only characters visible throughout most of The Chairs, but who knows how many invisible ones there are on stage by the end of Eugène Ionesco’s “tragic farce,” the latest production from A Noise Within—and a terrific one as might be expected from California’s Home For The Classics.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, WOW!

9 TO 5

posted on May 10th, 2011 at 5:19 PM by Steven Stanley


Violet, Doralee, and Judy, the trio of office gals made famous by Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda in 1980’s 9 To 5 are back—in a re-directed, re-choreographed, re-designed National Tour of the Broadway musical which world premiered a few years back at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, WOW!

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