UNRIVALED

posted on March 26th, 2023 at 4:11 PM by Steven Stanley

I was often tickled but only occasionally engaged by the madcap antics and contemporary speak of the trio of 11th-century Japanese women whose friendship/enmity (frenmity?) Rosie Narasaki writes about in Unrivaled, now getting its World Premiere as a Boston Court Pasadena-Playwrights’ Arena co-production.
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PICNIC

posted on March 25th, 2023 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


An African-American cast, a decade-later timeframe, and a hit-packed ’60s R&B soundtrack revitalize William Inge’s 1953 classic Picnic in John Farmanesh-Bocca’s ground-breaking new intimate revival for Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.
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THE THIN PLACE

posted on March 20th, 2023 at 4:05 PM by Steven Stanley


You don’t have to believe in psychic phenomena to find yourself spellbound by Lucas Hnath’s mysterious and spooky The Thin Place, the latest Echo Theater Company winner at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY?

posted on March 19th, 2023 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley


Move over Little Shop Of Horrors. There’s a new killer musical in town and it’s Randy Rogel’s murderously clever dark-comedy gem Did You Hear What Walter Paisley Did Today?, now making its World Premiere debut at the La Mirada Theatre.
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THE LONELY FEW

posted on March 18th, 2023 at 12:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony-winning sensation Lauren Patten returns to SoCal theater as a queer musician trapped in smalltown Kentucky in The Lonely Few, a Geffen Playhouse World Premiere that shifts somewhat jarringly halfway through from a dramatic play interspersed with live rock club performances into a more traditional musical in which songs take the place of dialog.
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PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE

posted on March 13th, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso square off to both whimsical and profound effect in Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Steve Martin’s delightful theatrical soufflé, now weaving its magic spell at the Ruskin Group Theatre.
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CARDENIO

posted on March 13th, 2023 at 11:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Art imitates life as Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee imitate Shakespeare (albeit in contemporary prose) in Cardenio, and while the playwriting duo’s take on the Bard’s mismatched-lovers comedies is a bit hit-and-miss, its City Garage debut is nothing if not a feast for the eyes.
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THE HUMAN COMEDY

posted on March 12th, 2023 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Smalltown America circa WWII has rarely been brought to life as charmingly and powerfully, or staged as imaginatively as it is in Actors Co-op’s captivating World Premiere adaptation of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy.
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