CLYDE’S

posted on November 20th, 2022 at 1:10 PM by Steven Stanley


Four sandwich-making ex-cons strive to forge new lives for themselves in Lynn Nottage’s hilarious, hard-hitting Clyde’s, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum direct from its recent run at Chicago’s Goodman Theater.
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posted in Los Angeles, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

BRIGADOON

posted on November 16th, 2022 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre Guild opened its two-show 2022-2023 season in kilts and plaid with a terrifically performed, one-night-only concert staged reading of Brigadoon, the musical that began one of Broadway’s most successful collaborations.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

SMILE

posted on November 14th, 2022 at 10:47 AM by Steven Stanley

A guidance counselor and a 17-year-old student find their lives intertwined to explosive effect in Melissa Jane Osborne’s Smile, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere as compelling as it is exasperating.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

DI LADY DI

posted on November 13th, 2022 at 4:18 PM by Steven Stanley


Serendipitously timed to coincide with the arrival of Season Five of Netflix’s The Crown, the pre-Thanksgiving return engagement of Di Lady Di makes it abundantly clear why Charlotte Munson’s cleverly titled solo bio-musical was named Best Musical at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022.
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posted in North Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

ALL IS TRUE, OR HENRY VIII

posted on November 7th, 2022 at 10:24 AM by Steven Stanley


Shakespeare aficionados will welcome the arrival of All Is True, or Henry VIII, aka the play even they probably didn’t know he (co)wrote, as well as the arrival of its gifted director as the new artistic head of the North Hollywood Shakespeareans who call themselves The Porters Of Hellsgate.
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posted in Classic Play, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

2:22 – A GHOST STORY

posted on November 5th, 2022 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley


October may be over, but it’s still Halloween season at the Ahmanson as Center Theatre Group treats theatrical thrill seekers to the U.S. premiere of the West End phenomenon that is Danny Robins’ scrumptiously scare-packed haunted house chiller 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Thriller, WOW!

RENT

posted on October 31st, 2022 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Jonathan Larson’s Rent surrounds the audience quite literally in Coeurage Ensemble’s stunningly groundbreaking, entirely sold-out reinvention of the much-revived 1996 Broadway classic.
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A FEW GOOD MEN

posted on October 30th, 2022 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley


A suspense-filled script, courtroom sequences that would do Perry Mason proud, and an eye-opening look at what it means to be a United States Marine, A Few Good Men delivers with all of the above in La Mirada Theatre’s gripping, Broadway-caliber revival of Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 edge-of-your-seater.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

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