BACK PORCH

posted on June 3rd, 2023 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Eric Anderson pays affectionate tribute to William Inge in Back Porch, the play Inge might himself have written had mid-20th-century Middle America not kept the gay Kansan locked tightly in the closet.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL

posted on June 2nd, 2023 at 5:27 PM by Steven Stanley

Center Theatre Group celebrates diversity just in time for Pride Month with A Transparent Musical, an exhilarating but overlong adaptation of the hit TV series Transparent.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere

NO PLACE LIKE GANDERSHEIM

posted on May 28th, 2023 at 12:21 PM by Steven Stanley

A terrific cast score plenty of laughs in No Place Like Gandersheim, Elizabeth Dement’s time-traveling screwball feminist farce, but the Skylight Theatre World Premiere tries too hard to do too much for it to work the way it should.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

A SOLDIER’S PLAY

posted on May 26th, 2023 at 10:08 AM by Steven Stanley


Whodunnits don’t get any more edge-of-your-seat, and National Tours don’t get any more spectacular, than Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony-winning revival of A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller’s eye-opening look at racism on a segregated WWII-era military base, now keeping audiences on the edge of their seats at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

posted on May 22nd, 2023 at 9:57 AM by Steven Stanley


Christopher Durang’s trio of hilariously squabbling siblings are back (along with a sexy boy toy named Spike) in Pacific Resident Theatre’s winning take on Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

3: BLACK GIRL BLUES

posted on May 20th, 2023 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley


TV star Danielle Moné Truitt returns to her stage roots with 3: Black Girl Blues, an alternately hilarious and devastating one-woman show about a trio of grade school best friends whose lives follow drastically different paths from their teen years on.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BOTTOMING PROCESS

posted on May 19th, 2023 at 9:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Nicholas Pilapil’s The Bottoming Process may start off as an engaging contemporary gay romcom in the same vein as Fire Island and Bros but what it ends up being is a playwright’s rancor-fueled diatribe.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD

posted on May 17th, 2023 at 8:53 AM by Steven Stanley

The performances are sparkling, the melodies are tuneful, and the show’s heart is in the right place, but without a plot, dialog, or interconnected characters to keep an audience spellbound, a nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time is much too long for a song cycle like Paulo K Tiról and Noam Shapiro’s On This Side Of The World.
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posted in Los Angeles, Song Cycle, Theater Review, World Premiere

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