THE RIGHT IS OURS

posted on September 16th, 2023 at 10:57 AM by Steven Stanley

Tuneful songs and terrific performances do their utmost to overcome a by-the-numbers book and workshop-level production values in the Sierra Madre Playhouse World Premiere of The Right Is Ours, aka The Suffragette Musical.
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ALADDIN

posted on September 13th, 2023 at 10:47 AM by Steven Stanley


A guaranteed entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, Disney’s Aladdin is not only late summer’s most all-around entertaining theatrical extravaganza, it may well be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Pantages Theatre stage.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SOUND INSIDE

posted on September 12th, 2023 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Amy Brenneman delivers a bravura performance opposite gifted newcomer Anders Keith in Adam Rapp’s unnerving, electrifying The Sound Inside, a phenomenal season opener for the Tony-winning Pasadena Playhouse.
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BLOOD AT THE ROOT

posted on September 10th, 2023 at 3:44 PM by Steven Stanley


Headline-making real-life events propel Dominique Morisseau’s hot-button Blood At The Root, an Open Fist Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere given electrifying theatricality by director Michael A. Shepperd, choreographer Yusuf Nasir, and a cast of gifted young up-and-comers.
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WALKING IN SPACE

posted on September 9th, 2023 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley


Four young adult siblings confront their drug-addicted mother to shattering effect in Walking In Space, Gary Michael Kruger’s powerful, fact-based follow-up to his Best-of-2016 winner A Thorn In The Family Paw.
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THE PROM

posted on September 4th, 2023 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley


There aren’t enough superlatives in the book to describe Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s stand-up-and-cheer regional premiere of The Prom, my absolute favorite Broadway musical of the past five years.
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THE BLUEST EYE

posted on September 4th, 2023 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Performances are uniformly topnotch and the A Noise Within season opener is imaginatively directed and stylishly designed. I only wish I had enjoyed Lydia R. Diamond’s undoubtedly faithful stage adaptation of Toni Morrison’s downer of a novel The Bluest Eye even half as much as the Grade A treatment it’s been given.
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KILL SHELTER: THE BLUE CAST

posted on September 2nd, 2023 at 10:28 AM by Steven Stanley


Not only is Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.
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