IN THE COMPANY OF JANE DOE

posted on January 14th, 2010 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley


When was the last time you saw a surreal screwball comedy about human cloning? Tiffany Antone’s In The Company Of Jane Doe is just that play, and as might be expected from the preceding description, quite a unique concoction it is.  Though Antone’s decidedly unusual blend of the nutty and the bizarre does lose momentum in its second act and may leave you scratching your head as you exit the theater, its wild and crazy cast of characters, imaginative design, and terrific performances make it well worth a look-see.
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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

posted on January 10th, 2010 at 5:34 PM by Steven Stanley

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After staging ten Shakespeare productions over the past three years, The Porters Of Hellsgate are for the first time paying royalties.  Not that they really had to leave the public domain, there still being a few dozen more Shakespeare plays left for the talented young troupe of Bard-o-philes to produce and perform.  On the other hand, having chosen Hamlet as production number ten, their decision to run Shakespeare’s Greatest Play in rotating rep with Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (with the same casts no less) was an inspired one.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Recommended

ORDINARY DAYS

posted on January 10th, 2010 at 5:31 PM by Steven Stanley


The lives of four ordinary New Yorkers intersect in Adam Gwon’s tuneful, touching new musical Ordinary Days, now getting a sensationally performed, directed, and designed West Coast Premiere at South Coast Repertory.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

GALE HAROLD

posted on January 10th, 2010 at 4:01 PM by Steven Stanley

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THE BROWNING VERSION

posted on January 9th, 2010 at 5:37 PM by Steven Stanley


By 2010 standards, not much  happens over the course of The Browning Version’s seventy-five minutes, an hour and a quarter which unrolls in real time one evening in the sitting room of an English schoolteacher’s flat.  
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION

posted on January 8th, 2010 at 5:39 PM by Steven Stanley


I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people.  Six degrees of separation.  Between us and everybody else on this planet.  I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people. It’s a profound thought.”
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posted in Comedy-Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

HAMLET

posted on January 7th, 2010 at 5:45 PM by Steven Stanley


Just a little over three years ago, a trio of young PaliHi grads with a love of the Bard debuted a new theater company, The Porters Of Hellsgate, with a mission to make Shakespeare come alive for their generation. Their tenth production, Hamlet, once again proves them a force to be reckoned with in Los Angeles classical theater.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, WOW!

AN OAK TREE

posted on January 6th, 2010 at 5:46 PM by Steven Stanley


A grieving father confronting the driver responsible for his 12-year-old daughter’s death is a premise almost certain to create gripping theater. It’s hard to imagine a loss greater than a parent’s of a child, or a greater feeling of culpability than that of a person who has caused a child’s death.  It’s not surprising, therefore, that Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree proves gripping theater.  What makes it quite out of the ordinary is its unusual format, one absolutely deserving to be called “unique.”
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posted in Comedy-Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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