COME GET MAGGIE

posted on February 22nd, 2023 at 12:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Rogue Machine Theatre’s World Premiere 1950s sci-fi spoof Come Get Maggie has almost everything a new original musical ought to have. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s clever, and it’s terrifically performed. What it lacks is an infectiously hummable score.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

posted on February 20th, 2023 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Stephen Sondheim’s most personal musical, Sunday In The Park With George, finally gets what L.A. Sondheim lovers have long prayed for, a superbly performed, stunningly designed, rarer-than-rare big-stage revival that had its Pasadena Playhouse opening night audience swooning with joy.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

CALVIN BERGER

posted on February 19th, 2023 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley


Get ready to fall head over heels for Calvin Berger, both the lovestruck teenager played ever so winningly by Frankie A. Rodriguez and Barry Wyner’s tune-packed high-school-musical take on Cyrano de Bergerac, now captivating audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

tick, tick… BOOM!

posted on February 18th, 2023 at 1:35 PM by Steven Stanley


International City Theatre opens its 2023 season with a powerhouse, terrifically performed tick, tick… BOOM!, a musical glimpse into Jonathan Larson’s creative and personal life before Rent (and his premature demise at the age of 35) made him a Broadway legend.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

posted on February 14th, 2023 at 5:16 PM by Steven Stanley


A newly liberated Sicily provides a fresh new WWII-era time and place for American GI Benedick and Italian ragazza Beatrice to fall in love at not-quite-first sight in A Noise Within’s sparkling 2023 revival of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

9 to 5

posted on February 13th, 2023 at 7:05 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre West has another major hit on its hands with the stage adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the tantalizing tale of a trio of resourceful secretaries who put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs along the way.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

NIMROD

posted on February 13th, 2023 at 10:15 AM by Steven Stanley

Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness steals every scene she’s in as our 45th president seen through a farcical Shakespearean lens in Phinneas Kiyomura’s Nimrod, a wild and wacky Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that’s a bit too all over the place to truly hit the mark.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Spoof, Theater Review, World Premiere

COCK

posted on February 12th, 2023 at 9:41 AM by Steven Stanley


One of 2022’s finest productions has returned to the Davidson/Valentini Theatre even more impressive than it was last June thanks to an exciting new cast addition, a more polished design, and the once again stunning contributions of its gifted young director and the three returning stars who once again dazzle in Mike Bartlett’s provocative tragicomedy Cock.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

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