RESET

posted on November 7th, 2023 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Described in press materials as a “sci-fi morality play,” Howard Ho’s Reset, the latest Moving Arts World Premiere, features an intriguing premise, a promising opening sequence, and a particularly appealing lead performance.

Unfortunately, things go downhill, way downhill, once a character known as “Old Man” shows up.
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INHERIT THE WIND

posted on November 6th, 2023 at 11:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Inherit The Wind may have made its Broadway debut way back in 1955 and the real-life events that inspired it may have taken place nearly a century ago, but under Michael Michetti’s inspired direction (and given the play’s renewed relevance in today’s ever more polarized America), the multiple Tony-winner’s Broadway-caliber Pasadena Playhouse revival feels as if it could have been written yesterday.
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LINES IN THE DUST

posted on November 5th, 2023 at 11:03 AM by Steven Stanley


Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Nikkole Salter examines inequities in public education in her powerful, thought-provoking, thoroughly engrossing Lines In The Dust, a memorable debut collaboration between Collaborative Artists Bloc and Support Black Theatre at the Matrix.
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SPRING AWAKENING

posted on November 4th, 2023 at 11:00 AM by Steven Stanley


Director Tim Dang, choreographer Preston Mui, an all-around sensational cast, and a stunning production design make East West Players’ Spring Awakening a standout among the umpteen productions I’ve seen so far.
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SHE

posted on October 31st, 2023 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Coming-of-age stories don’t get any more engaging or heartwarming or inspiring than Marlow Wyatt’s SHE, now captivating audiences in its Antaeus Theatre Company World Premiere.
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SLOW THUNDER

posted on October 30th, 2023 at 11:01 AM by Steven Stanley

The cast is on fire, but Suse Sternkopf’s Slow Thunder, now getting its World Premiere at NoHo’s Theatre 68, is (as The Buckinghams phrased it in their 1967 hit) kind of a drag.
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BISEXUAL SADNESS

posted on October 29th, 2023 at 11:30 AM by Steven Stanley


A bi woman about to marry the man of her dreams fears losing the community of gay women who welcomed her during her lengthy relationship with a lesbian in India Kotis’s Bisexual Sadness, a laughter-and-drama-packed Road Theatre World Premiere guaranteed to get you thinking and talking about sexuality and gender in new and unexpected ways.
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BABY FOOT

posted on October 24th, 2023 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley


Two addicts, one on her way out of rehab after 90 days sober, the other on his way in with a frighteningly drug-free 90-day challenge ahead of him, meet to electrifying effect in Baby Foot, Tim Venable’s gut-punchingly powerful, unexpectedly laugh-getting follow-up to last year’s stunning The Beautiful People at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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