ANNIE

posted on November 30th, 2022 at 11:08 AM by Steven Stanley


Even the grimmest of economic times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats. Case in point, the Broadway musical smash Annie, now spreading Christmastime tidings of hope and joy at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER

posted on November 28th, 2022 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley


Impeccably acted, directed, and designed on a “CinemaScope” stage, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner is one of Theatre 40’s finest productions ever.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS: PART 2

posted on November 27th, 2022 at 10:03 AM by Steven Stanley


Casa 0101 Theater’s Remembering Boyle Heights: Part 2 continues playwrights Josefina López and Corky Dominguez’s eye-opening look at events that helped shape the L.A. neighborhood’s identity as a center of Chicano-American culture.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

A PATSY CLINE HOLIDAY CONCERT

posted on November 26th, 2022 at 12:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Cori Cable Kidder, whose star-making performance in Always … Patsy Cline gave Sierra Madre Playhouse one of its biggest hits ever, is back in town as the country music legend in A Patsy Cline Holiday Concert, and that alone is reason for a pre-Christmas celebration.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL

posted on November 21st, 2022 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley


You don’t have to believe in ghosts to succumb to the spell of Prince Gomolvilas’s entertainingly spooky supernatural thriller The Brothers Paranormal, now getting its long-awaited Los Angeles Premiere at East West Players.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Thriller, WOW!

CLYDE’S

posted on November 20th, 2022 at 1:10 PM by Steven Stanley


Four sandwich-making ex-cons strive to forge new lives for themselves in Lynn Nottage’s hilarious, hard-hitting Clyde’s, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum direct from its recent run at Chicago’s Goodman Theater.
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posted in Los Angeles, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

BRIGADOON

posted on November 16th, 2022 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre Guild opened its two-show 2022-2023 season in kilts and plaid with a terrifically performed, one-night-only concert staged reading of Brigadoon, the musical that began one of Broadway’s most successful collaborations.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

SMILE

posted on November 14th, 2022 at 10:47 AM by Steven Stanley

A guidance counselor and a 17-year-old student find their lives intertwined to explosive effect in Melissa Jane Osborne’s Smile, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere as compelling as it is exasperating.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

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