PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE

posted on March 13th, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso square off to both whimsical and profound effect in Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Steve Martin’s delightful theatrical soufflé, now weaving its magic spell at the Ruskin Group Theatre.
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CARDENIO

posted on March 13th, 2023 at 11:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Art imitates life as Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee imitate Shakespeare (albeit in contemporary prose) in Cardenio, and while the playwriting duo’s take on the Bard’s mismatched-lovers comedies is a bit hit-and-miss, its City Garage debut is nothing if not a feast for the eyes.
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THE HUMAN COMEDY

posted on March 12th, 2023 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Smalltown America circa WWII has rarely been brought to life as charmingly and powerfully, or staged as imaginatively as it is in Actors Co-op’s captivating World Premiere adaptation of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy.
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THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

posted on March 7th, 2023 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley


A simple fact-finding assignment pits Gen Z against Gen X and accuracy against truth in The Lifespan Of A Fact, the very funny—and very discussion-prompting—latest from the Fountain Theatre.
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LOVE AND INFORMATION

posted on March 4th, 2023 at 12:58 PM by Steven Stanley


Eight actors play over a hundred characters in four dozen mostly comedic vignettes over the course of a briskly moving seventy-five minutes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the provocative, mind-blowing latest from Antaeus Theatre Company.
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GREY GARDENS

posted on March 1st, 2023 at 12:33 PM by Steven Stanley


Trisha Rapier delivered a dazzling star turn in Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only staging of Grey Gardens, an award-caliber performance made even more remarkable given the rehearsal-time limit for an Actors’ Equity-sanctioned concert staged reading: 25 hours max.
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THE SECRET GARDEN

posted on February 28th, 2023 at 9:21 AM by Steven Stanley


Inspired direction, stunning performances, a striking production design, and sumptuous orchestrations add up to something Los Angeles musical theater lovers have been waiting decades to experience, a Broadway-caliber revival of the Tony-winning The Secret Garden.
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FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE

posted on February 26th, 2023 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Aliens from outer space give five boys from Indiana voices that will propel them to the top of the charts in For The Love Of A Glove, Julien Nitzberg’s shamelessly irreverent, gleefully filthy, 100% unauthorized look at the controversial life of a certain King Of Pop, now eliciting shocked laughs galore in downtown-adjacent Echo Park.
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