CONEY ISLAND LAND, OR THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL ACTUALITY AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE

posted on March 4th, 2024 at 6:05 PM by Steven Stanley


High school sweethearts reunite for the first time since their breakup thirty years earlier in Timothy Braun’s absorbing World Premiere two-hander Coney Island Land, or The Great Existential Actuality at The End of The Universe, a terrifically acted and designed guest production at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Complex.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL

posted on March 3rd, 2024 at 11:34 AM by Steven Stanley

Director Barry Pearl and co-director/choreographer Michelle Elkin re-team at the Colony Theatre to bring L.A. audiences a bigger-budget incarnation of their 2023  hit Footloose The Musical, though this time round minus the powerhouse star turn of last year’s breakout leading man.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review

THE WINTER’S TALE

posted on March 2nd, 2024 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Director Elizabeth Swain ups the Act One drama, then enhances the Act Two froth in Antaeus Theatre Company’s splendidly performed 21st-century staging of William Shakespeare’s still-fresh-at-401 The Winter’s Tale.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

FATHERLAND

posted on February 26th, 2024 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley


Words like riveting and gut-wrenching only begin to describe Stephen Sachs’ ripped-from-the-headlines World Premiere docudrama Fatherland and the performances delivered at The Fountain Theatre by Los Angeles stage dynamo Ron Bottitta and remarkable L.A. newcomer Patrick Keleher.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

MARILYN, MOM, AND ME

posted on February 25th, 2024 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley


A renowned character actress and the world’s most celebrated sex symbol form the most unexpected of friendships as a grown son celebrates his mother’s memory in Luke Yankee’s fascinating, informative, deeply moving Marilyn, Mom, and Me, now getting its long-awaited World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

SEX WITH STRANGERS

posted on February 24th, 2024 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley


Sexual sparks fly when a one-flop-wonder of a novelist and a best-selling chronicler of a year’s worth of one-night stands find themselves the only guests in a rural bed-and-breakfast in Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason’s provocative, conversation-provoking two-hander, now playing at the McCadden Place Theatre.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

THREE

posted on February 21st, 2024 at 12:54 AM by Steven Stanley

If you’re a die-hard Chekhov fan, Nick Salamone’s 20th/21st-century “queer meditation” on the Russian playwright’s 124-year-old classic Three Sisters, a Playwrights’ Arena/Los Angeles LGBT Center World Premiere, will likely be more up your alley than it was mine.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

SWEENEY TODD

posted on February 18th, 2024 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Julia Rodriguez-Elliot’s brilliantly innovative direction and Cassandra Marie Murphy’s spectacular star turn as Mrs. Lovett top the reasons not to miss Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at A Noise Within.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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