OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD

posted on August 29th, 2023 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley

The four complex, authentic teen characters Alexis Scheer has created and the direction, performances, and design of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’s West Coast Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre are all so rave-worthy, it’s disappointing that the play’s gratuitously violent, deliberately unintelligible, and “WTF is that supposed to mean?” last twenty minutes are not.
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

posted on August 29th, 2023 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley


Arthur Miller and Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre once again prove a match made in heaven with A View From The Bridge, magnificently performed in an intimate staging that turns every single audience member into a fly on the wall of this gritty Greek tragedy set on the waterfront of 1950s Brooklyn.
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HUNGRY GHOST

posted on August 29th, 2023 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley

A pregnant woman is visited nightly by the Stevie Nicks-loving adult ghost of her as yet unborn child in Hungry Ghost, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s surreal, supernatural head-scratcher of a play now getting its Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere.
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EXIT WOUNDS

posted on August 26th, 2023 at 12:06 PM by Steven Stanley


A father at the end of his rope seeks help for his delinquent teenage son from a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty-five years in Wendy Graf’s compelling, cathartic family drama Exit Wounds, now getting an absorbing World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

posted on August 20th, 2023 at 9:58 AM by Steven Stanley


If the idea of spending two hours listening to Catholic conservatives inveigh against abortion, LGBT rights, and other left-wing causes sounds off-putting, think again.

There’s a reason why Will Arbery’s Heroes Of The Fourth Turning, now getting an absolutely sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Los Angeles Premiere, was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. There’s a reason why the New York Times called it “astonishing and riveting.”
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A PERFECT GANESH

posted on August 15th, 2023 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

Theatricum Botanicum takes a break from the Bard in its otherwise entirely Shakespearean 2023 season with Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, a play not nearly as appealing as McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, It’s Only A Play, Master Class, Corpus Christi, and Love! Valour! Compassion!
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THE RED SUITCASE

posted on August 13th, 2023 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley


Growing up gay in the Deep South is no picnic for the protagonist of Jiggs Burgess’s laugh-out-loud funny, get-out-the-Kleenex moving The Red Suitcase, a P3 Theatre Company World Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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PETER PAN GOES WRONG

posted on August 12th, 2023 at 11:05 AM by Steven Stanley


The laughs keep coming and coming and coming as the mishaps keep piling up in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the side-splittingest show to play the Ahmanson since The Play That Goes Wrong had audiences rolling in the aisles four years back.
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