HAIRSPRAY

posted on May 4th, 2023 at 8:55 AM by Steven Stanley


Hairspray remains as fresh and fabulous at the ripe old age of 21 as it was when it made its Broadway debut back in 2002, and if you doubt my words, check out the spiffy National Tour now stopping at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

posted on May 1st, 2023 at 12:05 PM by Steven Stanley


Pasadena Playhouse’s epic Sondheim Celebration continues this month with A Little Night Music, a Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better revival that tops even February’s magnificent Sunday In The Park With George.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL

posted on April 30th, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Steven Stanley


A star-making lead performance by fresh-out-of-college triple threat Thomas Whitcomb tops the reasons why Footloose The Musical is well worth a drive to the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center.
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MOOSE ON THE LOOSE

posted on April 29th, 2023 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley


A moose on the loose in an icy, snowy Northern Ontario town is all it takes for hilarity to ensue in Dina Morrone’s appropriately titled slice-of-immigrant-Italian-family-life Moose On The Loose, as laughter-and-love-packed a comedy as I’ve seen in ages.
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SCINTILLA

posted on April 24th, 2023 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley


A grown son’s visit to his semi-estranged mother’s woodsy abode soon turns into a matter of life or death as a raging forest fire advances in their direction in Scintilla, Alessandro Camon’s gripping, suspenseful gut-puncher of a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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THE KING AND I

posted on April 23rd, 2023 at 4:33 PM by Steven Stanley


Bangkok in the early 1860s comes to vivid, tuneful life as seen through the eyes of an English schoolteacher named Anna Leonowens in the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic The King And I, now being given a top-of-the-line revival at the La Mirada Theatre.
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TORNADO

posted on April 22nd, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Three very different women comb the wreckage of a devastating natural disaster in Chris Cragin-Day’s Tornado, a largely engaging Actors Co-op World Premiere, but one that ties things up rather too abruptly to be entirely satisfying.
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MIDNIGHT SCREENING

posted on April 17th, 2023 at 9:17 PM by Steven Stanley


Take two or more complete strangers, trap them in a single location, and watch the fireworks fly. It’s a formula that worked for John Hughes in his 1985 classic The Breakfast Club and six years later in his not-so-classic Career Opportunities, and it’s a concept that proves every bit as effective at the Zephyr Theatre in Tim Schildberger’s World Premiere winner Midnight Screening.
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