FINAL INTERVIEW

posted on January 30th, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


What starts out as a routine job interview quickly turns into a matter of life and death when a construction firm exec finds himself with a gun to his head in Gabriel Oliva’s Final Interview, an edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller that more than merits a return engagement following its all too brief five-performance run at the Pico.
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

DO YOU FEEL ANGER?

posted on January 29th, 2023 at 12:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Mara Nelson–Greenberg takes #metoo rage to absurdist extremes in Circle X Theatre Company’s Do You Feel Anger?, a West Coast Premiere that starts out a major laugh getter (and stays that way for most of its ninety-minute running time), but ends up a major bummer the moment Nelson–Greenberg’s anti-male message gets sledgehammered in in the play’s suddenly surreal final scene.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review

MR. YUNIOSHI

posted on January 28th, 2023 at 1:11 PM by Steven Stanley


Asian-American actor J. Elijah Cho turns the tables on the dubious Golden Era Hollywood practice of casting Caucasian actors as “Orientals” in the bitingly hilarious Mr. Yunioshi, Cho’s thought-provoking look back at the 1930s/40s movie star now perhaps best known for playing Audrey Hepburn’s angry Japanese landlord in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

TWELVE O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER

posted on January 23rd, 2023 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley


Alessandra Assaf delivers a spellbinding solo turn as one of the most glamorous screen goddesses in Hollywood history in Twelve O’clock Tales with Ava Gardner, now playing Sunday matinees at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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posted in San Fernando Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

GREASE

posted on January 22nd, 2023 at 10:09 PM by Steven Stanley


McCoy Rigby Entertainment pulls out all the stops to serve up a couldn’t-be-better Grease at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, astutely cast, adroitly directed, arrestingly designed, and entertaining as all get-out.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

ANATOMY OF GRAY

posted on January 21st, 2023 at 4:15 PM by Steven Stanley


An offbeat stranger’s sudden arrival via tornado smack dab in the middle of “the most boring place in the world” sets in motion a series of events destined to transform the lives of a plucky Midwest teen and her fellow Indiana townsfolk in Jim Leonard’s Anatomy of Gray, the simply marvelous latest from Open Fist Theatre Company.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

BROTHERS PLAY

posted on January 16th, 2023 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley


Traumatic childhood memories haunt a trio of 40something male siblings on a fateful Christmas Eve in Brothers Play, Matthew Doherty’s darkly comedic walloper now getting a spectacularly acted, directed, and designed World Premiere production at Legacy LA.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

HOME FRONT

posted on January 14th, 2023 at 4:18 PM by Steven Stanley


An interracial couple fall in love on VJ Day 1945 only to find their post-WWII hopes and dreams dashed by the discovery that, as the French so aptly put it, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” in the Victory Theatre Center West Coast Premiere of Warren Leight’s eye-opening, emotion-packed Home Front.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

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