UNDER THE SKIN

posted on May 8th, 2023 at 11:08 AM by Steven Stanley


A philandering father suffering from kidney failure. An estranged daughter ill-inclined to donate one of her own. A tearjerker-movie-of-the-week plot-propeller if there ever was one, but one that has inspired an honest-to-goodness comedy, Michael Hellinger’s Under The Skin, the terrific latest from International City Theatre.
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A NEW BRAIN

posted on May 7th, 2023 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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THE LARAMIE PROJECT

posted on May 6th, 2023 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley

An impressive, gender-bending cast salute Matthew Shepard’s memory in The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman’s powerful examination of the aftermath of the gay Wyoming university student’s murder, though the Hollywood Fringe Festival look it is given at the Group Rep does the play no favors.
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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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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

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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