ZANNA, DON’T!

posted on June 25th, 2010 at 9:16 PM by Steven Stanley


“It’s seven a.m. on the dot, and a perfect sixty-eight degrees out there to start the school year off right,” announces DJ Tank on his morning show on WLUV, Heartsville High’s student-run station. “Just a reminder folks, Heartsville’s annual community picnic is this weekend. So, guys grab your guy and girls grab your girl and head on down to Lookout Lake.”
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

OKLAHOMA!

posted on June 24th, 2010 at 9:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre Of Los Angeles follows its much praised downsizings of Ragtime The Musical, West Side Story, and Cabaret with one of its biggest challenges yet, a 99-seat production of Rodgers And Hammerstein’s very first collaboration—1943’s Oklahoma!
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

CURTAINS

posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 9:04 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s always an event when a regional theater gets its first crack at a recent Broadway hit—and when that show is John Kander & Fred Ebb’s very last musical (and the recipient of eight Tony Award nominations), the event is well worth a road trip.
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posted in Musical, Santa Barbara County, WOW!

SHAHEED: THE DREAM AND DEATH OF BENAZIR BHUTTO

posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 8:59 PM by Steven Stanley


Say the name Benazir Bhutto to a cross-section of Pakistanis and you’ll probably get as many different points of view as those expressed by the characters who people Anna Khaja’s Shaheed: The Dream And Death Of Benazir Bhutto.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, WOW!

STREEP TEASE

posted on June 21st, 2010 at 8:54 PM by Steven Stanley


Meryl. Meryl. Meryl.

Is there any need to add a last name? Can there be a movie fan alive today who doesn’t know straight away that the Meryl in question is the most Oscar-nominated actress (or actor) in Academy Award history? (That’s 16 nominations in case you’ve forgotten.)
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, WOW!

THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES

posted on June 21st, 2010 at 10:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor, Will Rogers packed a whole lot of living into his fifty-five years. He circled the world three times, made over seventy movies, wrote thousands upon thousands of nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, became internationally famous, and even ran once for President of the United States, if only in jest.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, WOW!

ELEVATOR

posted on June 20th, 2010 at 8:51 PM by Steven Stanley


Take a bunch of strangers and trap them in an enclosed space for a significant enough length of time and it’s a sure bet they’ll come out changed by the experience—if plays and movies are to be believed. Take the jurors in Twelve Angry Men, Tom Hanks and assorted others in You’ve Got Mail, or the high school kids in The Breakfast Club. Eleven jurors changed their verdict, Tom decided to leave Parker Posey for Meg Ryan, and the Princess, Jock, Brain, Criminal, and Basket Case all revealed themselves to be night-and-day different from our first impression of them and bonded in the process. Such is the stuff of stage and screen fiction.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

ARCADIA

posted on June 19th, 2010 at 8:47 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
The venerable Sierra Madre Playhouse challenges its subscribers and theatergoing regulars with something quite different in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, an intellectual comedy whose characters discuss physics, thermodynamics, computer algorithms, fractals, population dynamics, and chaos theory—as well as others of a slightly less scientific bent.
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posted in Drama, Recommended, San Gabriel Valley

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