BEN HENSLEY

posted on June 10th, 2010 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley

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AGATHA CHRISTIE’S BLACK COFFEE

posted on June 7th, 2010 at 2:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot give Theatre 40 one of its best productions with the Queen Of Crime’s classic mystery thriller Black Coffee, one which delivers at least as many laughs as thrills, the entire cast delivering sparkling performances with just the right amount of tongue in cheek.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ANNE FRASER THOMAS

posted on June 7th, 2010 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Tall, dark-haired, and gorgeous, Anne Fraser Thomas is one of our finest, and most unique, musical theater talents—as Monday’s standing room only crowd at Hollywood’s Magic Castle can certainly attest to. Over the course of an eclectic hour of song and magic (of the musical sort), Anne took her devoted family, friends, and fans on a musical journey through her life from her early years as a multi-ethnic wunderkind (there wasn’t a lesson or class young Anne wasn’t taking) up through her present day bicoastal life.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

ALL MY SONS

posted on June 6th, 2010 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley


There’s no greater work of 20th Century American theater than Arthur Miller’s now classic All My Sons. Debuting on Broadway less than two years after World War II ended with Japan’s surrender, Miller’s examination of personal responsibility in time of war remains every bit as powerful—and relevant—sixty-three years after its New York premiere.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, WOW!

SKYLIGHT

posted on June 6th, 2010 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley


30-year-old schoolteacher Kyra Hollis has scarcely gotten back to her East London flat, the evening’s groceries in tow, when recent high school grad Edward Sargeant arrives on her doorstep with a question and a request. Kyra, a former employee of Edward’s restaurateur father, had been living with the Sargeants for half a dozen years until suddenly vanishing from their lives a couple years back. Not long after, Edward’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, her death last year leaving Edward without the two most important women in his life, his real life Mum and the “older sister” Kyra had become to him. Edward wants to know why Kyra abandoned them. He also wants her to do something to help his father, Tom, who’s not been doing all that well since his wife’s death.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, WOW!

DINNER WITH FRIENDS

posted on June 5th, 2010 at 10:18 AM by Steven Stanley


There’s a moment in Donald Margulies’ Dinner With Friends when one of its characters comments, “The thing is, you never know what couples are like when they’re alone; you never do.”
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Drama, WOW!

SUPERNOVA

posted on June 4th, 2010 at 10:12 AM by Steven Stanley


Mabel Davies is trying to make the most of her Midwest hell of a life in Timothy McNeil’s World Premiere drama Supernova—but it sure as hell isn’t easy. Her inattentive, loutish husband John spends his days plunked down in front of the tube before heading off to his graveyard-shift factory job, leaving Mabel alone at home to fend for herself. Son Kip used to be the apple of both his parents’ eyes, but as his eighteenth birthday approaches, the surly youth wastes his days and nights drinking, getting high, and spouting right wing militia catchphrases. (He’s also carrying on a secret sexual affair with the Davies’ recently separated next door neighbor Fran, twice his age.) No wonder Mabel finds solace in her nightly phone calls with Joe, a lonely watch salesman in far away California.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, WOW!

LENNY BRUCE IS BACK (AND BOY IS HE PISSED)

posted on June 3rd, 2010 at 6:16 PM by Steven Stanley


Ask most people about Lenny Bruce and the first words that pop into their heads might be “comedian,” “arrested,” and “obscenity.”  That and maybe “died young” and “drug overdose.”
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Solo Performance, WOW!

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