tick, tick… BOOM!

posted on February 18th, 2023 at 1:35 PM by Steven Stanley


International City Theatre opens its 2023 season with a powerhouse, terrifically performed tick, tick… BOOM!, a musical glimpse into Jonathan Larson’s creative and personal life before Rent (and his premature demise at the age of 35) made him a Broadway legend.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

posted on February 14th, 2023 at 5:16 PM by Steven Stanley


A newly liberated Sicily provides a fresh new WWII-era time and place for American GI Benedick and Italian ragazza Beatrice to fall in love at not-quite-first sight in A Noise Within’s sparkling 2023 revival of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

9 to 5

posted on February 13th, 2023 at 7:05 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre West has another major hit on its hands with the stage adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the tantalizing tale of a trio of resourceful secretaries who put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs along the way.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

NIMROD

posted on February 13th, 2023 at 10:15 AM by Steven Stanley

Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness steals every scene she’s in as our 45th president seen through a farcical Shakespearean lens in Phinneas Kiyomura’s Nimrod, a wild and wacky Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that’s a bit too all over the place to truly hit the mark.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Spoof, Theater Review, World Premiere

COCK

posted on February 12th, 2023 at 9:41 AM by Steven Stanley


One of 2022’s finest productions has returned to the Davidson/Valentini Theatre even more impressive than it was last June thanks to an exciting new cast addition, a more polished design, and the once again stunning contributions of its gifted young director and the three returning stars who once again dazzle in Mike Bartlett’s provocative tragicomedy Cock.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

posted on February 7th, 2023 at 10:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Katie Forgette puts a 1970s blue-collar Irish-American Catholic comedic spin on the memory play in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the crowd-pleasing latest from Theatre 40.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

RIDE THE CYCLONE

posted on February 5th, 2023 at 7:23 PM by Steven Stanley


A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE DREAMER EXAMINES HIS PILLOW

posted on February 3rd, 2023 at 9:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Two very good lead performances are the best reasons to check out Girl Trip Productions’ take on John Patrick Shanley’s The Dreamer Examines His Pillow at the Broadwater Black Box despite a weak third link and the dubious addition of a pair of female “fauns” not in Shanley’s script.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

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