INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

posted on February 7th, 2023 at 10:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Katie Forgette puts a 1970s blue-collar Irish-American Catholic comedic spin on the memory play in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the crowd-pleasing latest from Theatre 40.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

RIDE THE CYCLONE

posted on February 5th, 2023 at 7:23 PM by Steven Stanley


A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE DREAMER EXAMINES HIS PILLOW

posted on February 3rd, 2023 at 9:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Two very good lead performances are the best reasons to check out Girl Trip Productions’ take on John Patrick Shanley’s The Dreamer Examines His Pillow at the Broadwater Black Box despite a weak third link and the dubious addition of a pair of female “fauns” not in Shanley’s script.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

FINAL INTERVIEW

posted on January 30th, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


What starts out as a routine job interview quickly turns into a matter of life and death when a construction firm exec finds himself with a gun to his head in Gabriel Oliva’s Final Interview, an edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller that more than merits a return engagement following its all too brief five-performance run at the Pico.
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DO YOU FEEL ANGER?

posted on January 29th, 2023 at 12:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Mara Nelson–Greenberg takes #metoo rage to absurdist extremes in Circle X Theatre Company’s Do You Feel Anger?, a West Coast Premiere that starts out a major laugh getter (and stays that way for most of its ninety-minute running time), but ends up a major bummer the moment Nelson–Greenberg’s anti-male message gets sledgehammered in in the play’s suddenly surreal final scene.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review

MR. YUNIOSHI

posted on January 28th, 2023 at 1:11 PM by Steven Stanley


Asian-American actor J. Elijah Cho turns the tables on the dubious Golden Era Hollywood practice of casting Caucasian actors as “Orientals” in the bitingly hilarious Mr. Yunioshi, Cho’s thought-provoking look back at the 1930s/40s movie star now perhaps best known for playing Audrey Hepburn’s angry Japanese landlord in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

TWELVE O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER

posted on January 23rd, 2023 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley


Alessandra Assaf delivers a spellbinding solo turn as one of the most glamorous screen goddesses in Hollywood history in Twelve O’clock Tales with Ava Gardner, now playing Sunday matinees at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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posted in San Fernando Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

GREASE

posted on January 22nd, 2023 at 10:09 PM by Steven Stanley


McCoy Rigby Entertainment pulls out all the stops to serve up a couldn’t-be-better Grease at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, astutely cast, adroitly directed, arrestingly designed, and entertaining as all get-out.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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