THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

posted on March 7th, 2023 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley


A simple fact-finding assignment pits Gen Z against Gen X and accuracy against truth in The Lifespan Of A Fact, the very funny—and very discussion-prompting—latest from the Fountain Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

LOVE AND INFORMATION

posted on March 4th, 2023 at 12:58 PM by Steven Stanley


Eight actors play over a hundred characters in four dozen mostly comedic vignettes over the course of a briskly moving seventy-five minutes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the provocative, mind-blowing latest from Antaeus Theatre Company.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

GREY GARDENS

posted on March 1st, 2023 at 12:33 PM by Steven Stanley


Trisha Rapier delivered a dazzling star turn in Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only staging of Grey Gardens, an award-caliber performance made even more remarkable given the rehearsal-time limit for an Actors’ Equity-sanctioned concert staged reading: 25 hours max.
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THE SECRET GARDEN

posted on February 28th, 2023 at 9:21 AM by Steven Stanley


Inspired direction, stunning performances, a striking production design, and sumptuous orchestrations add up to something Los Angeles musical theater lovers have been waiting decades to experience, a Broadway-caliber revival of the Tony-winning The Secret Garden.
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FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE

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


Aliens from outer space give five boys from Indiana voices that will propel them to the top of the charts in For The Love Of A Glove, Julien Nitzberg’s shamelessly irreverent, gleefully filthy, 100% unauthorized look at the controversial life of a certain King Of Pop, now eliciting shocked laughs galore in downtown-adjacent Echo Park.
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COME GET MAGGIE

posted on February 22nd, 2023 at 12:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Rogue Machine Theatre’s World Premiere 1950s sci-fi spoof Come Get Maggie has almost everything a new original musical ought to have. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s clever, and it’s terrifically performed. What it lacks is an infectiously hummable score.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

posted on February 20th, 2023 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Stephen Sondheim’s most personal musical, Sunday In The Park With George, finally gets what L.A. Sondheim lovers have long prayed for, a superbly performed, stunningly designed, rarer-than-rare big-stage revival that had its Pasadena Playhouse opening night audience swooning with joy.
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CALVIN BERGER

posted on February 19th, 2023 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley


Get ready to fall head over heels for Calvin Berger, both the lovestruck teenager played ever so winningly by Frankie A. Rodriguez and Barry Wyner’s tune-packed high-school-musical take on Cyrano de Bergerac, now captivating audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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