SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY

posted on December 8th, 2024 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 25th annual mash-up of  madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy rated R-for-language and H-for-heart.
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MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 8th, 2024 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley

It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)

posted on December 1st, 2024 at 12:53 PM by Steven Stanley


Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL

posted on November 25th, 2024 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley

I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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FOUR TOP

posted on November 24th, 2024 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley


An initially promising hook-up gone suddenly, disastrously amiss is just the start of the romcom roundelay that is Michael B. Kaplan’s laugh-packed World Premiere Four Top, the latest winner presented Upstairs at the Group Rep.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on November 23rd, 2024 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley


CASA 0101 triumphs like never before with the musical stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in a production that more than holds its own against L.A.’s most prestigious 99-seat theaters.
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DRY LAND

posted on November 22nd, 2024 at 12:51 PM by Steven Stanley


Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing off-off-Broadway play about a high school swimmer desperate to terminate her unwanted pregnancy by whatever means possible, returns to Los Angeles in an impressive limited-run guest production at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

posted on November 19th, 2024 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Pasadena Playhouse’s five-year-long winning streak of Broadway musical revivals comes to a crashing halt with Sam Pinkleton’s ill-conceived take on the 1980s Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein classic La Cage Aux Folles.
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