KIMBERLY AKIMBO

posted on October 17th, 2024 at 11:22 AM by Steven Stanley


It only took me only seconds to fall madly in love with Kimberly Akimbo at the Pantages. No wonder then that David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s tuneful, touching adaptation of the former’s outrageously funny, deeply moving play of the same name won five 2023 Tonys including the big one, Best Musical.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

I, DANIEL BLAKE

posted on October 16th, 2024 at 9:00 AM by Steven Stanley

Brilliant performances and dazzling production design aside, Dave Johns’ unrelentingly bleak stage adaptation of I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach’s Kafkaesque 2016 film about a good man living a British bureaucratic nightmare is the most depressing  90 minutes I’ve spent in a theater in a very long time.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

¡PASAJE!

posted on October 14th, 2024 at 9:19 AM by Steven Stanley

If I were grading on good intentions alone, then J Quiroz and Asdru Sierra’s ¡Pasaje! would earn high marks. Unfortunately, this musical salute to la vida latina in South El Monte is no In The Heights.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, World Premiere

RENT

posted on October 14th, 2024 at 9:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Jaxx Theatricals follows their Scenie-winning intimate stagings of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party and Chess The Musical with an excitingly performed but overly choreographed revival of Jonathan Larson’s Rent.
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AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on October 10th, 2024 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley


The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

posted on October 8th, 2024 at 10:18 AM by Steven Stanley

A trio of topnotch star turns are the three best reasons to catch Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s over-the-top staging of the horror rock extravaganza that is Bat Boy: The Musical. (It would help too if you could understand what the characters are saying/singing.)
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

GLORIA

posted on October 7th, 2024 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Everyone’s out for their fifteen minutes of fame in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher Gloria, now being given an electrifying Orange County premiere at Chance Theater.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

TROUBLE IN MIND

posted on October 6th, 2024 at 6:51 PM by Steven Stanley

A stunning Kimi Walker delivers what may well be a career-best lead performance in Actors Co-op’s mostly successful revival of pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble In Mind.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

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