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LONDON’S SCARS

posted on May 15th, 2010 at 10:51 AM by Steven Stanley

Two scarred Londoners take center stage in award-winning playwright Richard Martin Hirsch’s latest, the current-as-today’s-headlines London’s Scars, now in its World Premiere engagement as a guest production at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

JANET KRUPIN RHAPSODY IN NEW

posted on May 15th, 2010 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley

The sky’s the limit for Janet Krupin, superstar in the making, who followed her L.A.’s Next Great Stage Star 2010 victory with a sensational cabaret debut that people will be talking about in years to come.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, San Fernando Valley, WOW!

EDWARD II

posted on May 14th, 2010 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley

Who would have thought that a play written well over four hundred years ago by a contemporary of William Shakespeare would be in-your-face gay enough to make it an appropriate choice for an LGBT theater season?
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posted in Drama, Orange County, WOW!

BRIGADOON

posted on May 13th, 2010 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley

Before My Fair Lady, before Gigi and Paint Your Wagon and Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe had their first big Broadway hit in 1947 with Brigadoon. Thrice revived since then on the Great White Way, Brigadoon has gone on to become a regional theater favorite, and though it will never eclipse Lerner & Loewe’s masterpiece (you know which one that is), it does have its own old-fashioned charms as well as songs like “Almost Like Being in Love” that have gone on to become standards.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

posted on May 12th, 2010 at 1:42 AM by Steven Stanley

With some rip-roaring performances and a superb production design, A Noise Within’s revival of John Millington Synge’s once scandalous 1907 comedy The Playboy Of The Western World would be all-around wonderful if most of its cast weren’t speaking in a Western Irish accent so thick that it can get downright incomprehensible. Fortunately, the zest with which the performers attack their roles, some terrific physical comedy, and a storyline which (thank goodness) gets easier to follow as Act One turns to Act Two and Act Three make for an entertaining evening of theater directed by Geoff Elliott.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, WOW!

BECOMING BUTCH

posted on May 11th, 2010 at 1:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Some people dream of becoming rich, others of becoming famous, but as a child growing up in Queens, New York, young Vincent James Arcuri dreamed of becoming butch, or so we learn in Becoming Butch, Arcuri’s delightful, captivating, and ultimately inspiring one-man performance, continuing its midweek run at the Celebration Theatre over the next two Tuesdays.
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