BLOOD BROTHERS

posted on October 18th, 2008 at 6:02 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
The arrival of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers in Los Angeles is big news indeed. Though the musical ran 840 performances on Broadway in the mid-1990s, and has been playing continuously on London’s West End for over two decades, it’s been years since there’s been a fully staged L.A. production offering local audiences the chance to see what has made Blood Brothers such a British (and international) phenomenon. 
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posted in Musical, Recommended, San Fernando Valley

THE ALL NIGHT STRUT

posted on October 17th, 2008 at 6:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Long Beach is indeed a-jumpin’ with International City Theatre’s absolutely terrific revival of The All Night Strut. Music, song, and dance from the big band and swing era combine under the sensational direction of Lance Roberts (who also choreographed the many fabulous dance sequences), with a smashing quartet of triple-threat performers singing such standards as “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “As Time Goes By,” and “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing.”
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, WOW!

HAMLET

posted on October 15th, 2008 at 6:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Michael Michetti + Hamlet @ A Noise Within = A sure-to-be-talked-about event.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, WOW!

PUSH

posted on October 13th, 2008 at 6:13 PM by Steven Stanley


In Las Vegas, a “push” happens when a dealer and a player tie. It’s not the same as losing, but tell that to the player who’s only broken even.

Playwright Kristen Lazarian explores a marital “push” in her provocative new drama Push, getting its Los Angeles premiere at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

LEADING LADIES

posted on October 12th, 2008 at 6:16 PM by Steven Stanley


Actors Co-op has found the perfect complement to the concurrently running drama of The Elephant Man—Ken Ludwig’s hilarious gender-bending Leading Ladies.  What better way to put an end to the post-summer blues than by spending a couple hours with the oddest couple of men in drag since Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon put on lipstick and hose in Some Like It Hot? Unlike Tony and Jack, though, our two unlikely “heroines” are not on the run from the mob but rather in search of a few million dollars to be inherited if only they can convince a dying woman that they are her lone (and long lost) female relatives. Here’s how it goes:
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

GIRL’S ROOM

posted on October 11th, 2008 at 6:19 PM by Steven Stanley


Take West Side Story’s original Maria and A Chorus Line’s original Cassie and star them together in 2008 and you have, as Girl’s Room’s publicity proclaims, two veritable Broadway legends sharing the same stage for the first time, and more than enough reason to catch Joni Fritz’s ingratiating dramedy during its limited engagement at the El Portal.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, WOW!

PORCELAIN

posted on October 10th, 2008 at 6:24 PM by Steven Stanley


BRUTAL TOILET-SEX MURDER IN BETHNAL GREEN!

British tabloids trumpet the news of a vicious murder in a public lavatory in East London. John Lee, a nineteen-year-old Londoner of Asian descent, is accused of cold-bloodedly shooting William Hope, his twenty-six-year old Caucasian lover, six times at close range. Bang! Bang!  Bang! Bang!  Bang! Bang!
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

BAT BOY THE MUSICAL

posted on October 9th, 2008 at 6:28 PM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

In the eleven years since Bat Boy: The Musical began its life here in L.A. at the Actors’ Gang Theatre, it has gone on to be produced Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, at the Edinburgh Festival and in dozens of regional and international productions. The original L.A. production received four Ovation Awards, and Off-Broadway it won both the Lucille Lortel Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award as Best Musical. The revised London script is now getting its first local staging in a production which I wish I could say is worthy of the material.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Not Recommended

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