CLARKSTON

posted on September 15th, 2024 at 3:46 PM by Steven Stanley


No one writes with more insight, depth, and compassion about ordinary lives in the American Northwest than prolific Idaho playwright Samuel D. Hunter, whose unique talents are once again on display in the West Coast Premiere of Clarkston, the latest Echo Theater Company spellbinder.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

posted on September 14th, 2024 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s hard to imagine a finer revival of Thornton Wilder’s 20th-century American classic The Skin Of Our Teeth than the one now enrapturing audiences at A Noise Within.
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posted in Pasadena, Revival Of A 20th-Century Play, Theater Review, WOW!

DUEL REALITY

posted on September 13th, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

DRAGON LADY

posted on September 13th, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Broadway vet Sarah Porkalob pays loving tribute to her feisty Filipina grandmother while bringing to vivid life more than two dozen finely delineated characters and showing off exquisite three-octave pipes in her much lauded solo show Dragon Lady, now paying the most entertaining and compelling of visits to Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.
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posted in Solo Performance, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

posted on September 10th, 2024 at 4:35 PM by Steven Stanley


The translation’s the thing, but far from the only thing that makes Pasadena Playhouse’s dazzling staging of Martin Crimp’s “free adaptation” of Edmond Rostand’s French classic Cyrano de Bergerac the latest Pasadena Playhouse winner.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER

posted on September 9th, 2024 at 11:06 AM by Steven Stanley


There have been a handful of musicals about the American Civil War, but probably never one as eye-opening, entertaining, or emotionally powerful as The Civility Of Albert Cashier, the truth-is-stranger-than fiction Civil War musical now enthralling audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL

posted on September 7th, 2024 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Whittier Community Theatre proves it’s still going strong in its 101st season with 9 to 5: The Musical, the 2009 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1980 Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Dolly Parton movie smash.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

WENDY’S PETER PAN

posted on September 3rd, 2024 at 11:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum treats audiences to their most kids-friendly show in memory with Wendy’s Peter Pan, Ellen Geer’s reimagining of the J.M. Barrie classic as told by a now grown-up Wendy Darling to her three precocious offspring.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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