FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL
posted on March 3rd, 2024 at 11:34 AM by Steven StanleyDirector Barry Pearl and co-director/choreographer Michelle Elkin re-team at the Colony Theatre to bring L.A. audiences a bigger-budget incarnation of their 2023 hit Footloose The Musical, though this time round minus the powerhouse star turn of last year’s breakout leading man.
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Tags: BarCinBoo Productions, Colony Theatre, Dean Pitchford, Los Angeles Theater Review, Panic! Productions, Tom Snow, Walter Bobbie
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review
THE WINTER’S TALE
posted on March 2nd, 2024 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley
Director Elizabeth Swain ups the Act One drama, then enhances the Act Two froth in Antaeus Theatre Company’s splendidly performed 21st-century staging of William Shakespeare’s still-fresh-at-401 The Winter’s Tale.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, The Antaeus Company, William Shakespeare
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!
FATHERLAND
posted on February 26th, 2024 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley
Words like riveting and gut-wrenching only begin to describe Stephen Sachs’ ripped-from-the-headlines World Premiere docudrama Fatherland and the performances delivered at The Fountain Theatre by Los Angeles stage dynamo Ron Bottitta and remarkable L.A. newcomer Patrick Keleher.
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Tags: Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sachs
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!
MARILYN, MOM, AND ME
posted on February 25th, 2024 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley
A renowned character actress and the world’s most celebrated sex symbol form the most unexpected of friendships as a grown son celebrates his mother’s memory in Luke Yankee’s fascinating, informative, deeply moving Marilyn, Mom, and Me, now getting its long-awaited World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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Tags: Eileen Heckart, International City Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Luke Yankee, Marilyn Monroe
posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!
SEX WITH STRANGERS
posted on February 24th, 2024 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley
Sexual sparks fly when a one-flop-wonder of a novelist and a best-selling chronicler of a year’s worth of one-night stands find themselves the only guests in a rural bed-and-breakfast in Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason’s provocative, conversation-provoking two-hander, now playing at the McCadden Place Theatre.
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Tags: Gentlemen George Productions, Laura Eason, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCadden Place Theatre
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!
THREE
posted on February 21st, 2024 at 12:54 AM by Steven StanleyIf you’re a die-hard Chekhov fan, Nick Salamone’s 20th/21st-century “queer meditation” on the Russian playwright’s 124-year-old classic Three Sisters, a Playwrights’ Arena/Los Angeles LGBT Center World Premiere, will likely be more up your alley than it was mine.
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Tags: Anton Chekhov, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles Theater Review, Nick Salamone, Playwrights' Arena
posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere
SWEENEY TODD
posted on February 18th, 2024 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley
Julia Rodriguez-Elliot’s brilliantly innovative direction and Cassandra Marie Murphy’s spectacular star turn as Mrs. Lovett top the reasons not to miss Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at A Noise Within.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Hugh Wheeler, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!
BETRAYAL
posted on February 13th, 2024 at 10:23 AM by Steven Stanley
The aftermath of Harold Pinter’s seven-year love affair with the wife of a close friend serves as point of departure for his 1978 three-hander Betrayal, the fascinating latest from City Garage.
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Tags: City Garage, Harold Pinter, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!