OEDIPUS THE KING. MAMA

posted on August 26th, 2009 at 8:13 PM by Steven Stanley


The Troubadour Theater Company is back with Oedipus The King, Mama, one of their funniest shows ever and of those I’ve seen the best danced bar none.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, WOW!

SCHOOL FOR SUCKERS

posted on August 25th, 2009 at 8:16 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
A quintet of 20something USC grads recall their journeys from childhood to adulthood in School For Suckers, an enjoyable program of five self-penned solo performances now playing mid-week at the Lillian.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Recommended

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

posted on August 23rd, 2009 at 8:27 PM by Steven Stanley


Upright Cabaret’s Wicked Summer Nights came to a smashing conclusion with a star-studded tribute to mega-composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz at Hollywood’s Ford Amphitheatre on Sunday, August 23, produced by power duo Chris Isaacson and Shane Scheel, and directed by Broadway’s sensational Billy Porter.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

THE RECEPTIONIST

posted on August 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 PM by Steven Stanley


A middle-aged man in a business suit sits alone on the edge of a blackened stage, illuminated by a sole spot, and quietly describes the humane way to kill a fish which has been wounded by the fisherman’s hook in such a way that it cannot be thrown back into the water to carry on its submarine life. He then comments somewhat ambiguously, albeit ominously, about “people who don’t like what we do to people over there.”
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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ANITA BRYANT DIED FOR YOUR SINS

posted on August 21st, 2009 at 5:13 PM by Steven Stanley


If every man’s life is a story, then the time has come to write mine,” types fifteen-year-old Horace Poore from his tree house at the start of Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins, Brian Christopher Williams’ terrific memory play. Under West Coast Ensemble Co-Artistic Director Richard Israel’s inspired direction, and with a star-making turn by the brilliant young Wyatt Fenner, Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins shapes up to be this summer’s most talked-about and praised new play.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, WOW!

BREAKING AND ENTERING

posted on August 19th, 2009 at 5:24 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
A legendary one-hit-wonder novelist receives an unwelcome late night visit from his “biggest fan” in Colin Mitchell’s Breaking And Entering, a very dark comedy now in its world premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 under the able direction of Mark L. Taylor.

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posted in Drama, Recommended, West Side/Beverly HIlls

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW

posted on August 15th, 2009 at 5:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Here’s a question for theater aficionados? Can you think of a play which deals with, features, or mentions all of the following: depravity, disguises, gender identity, the government, hanky-panky, hermaphroditism, homosexuality, incest, insanity, marriage, mistaken identities, nymphomania, pederasty, psychiatry, rape, religion, reunited orphan siblings, slapstick, and transvestitism? Who could possibly have found a way to put all of the above into one play—and make it one of the most laugh-out-loud hilarious screwball farces ever?
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, WOW!

LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on August 14th, 2009 at 5:33 PM by Steven Stanley


Having conquered both Harvard Law School and Hollywood in the movie smash that made Reese Witherspoon an A-list star, Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods then went on to take Broadway by storm as the heroine of 2007’s Legally Blonde The Musical. Now, the not-so-dumb-blonde has arrived at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre in a textbook example of how to turn a hit celluloid romcom into a nigh-on-perfect Broadway musical.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, WOW!

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