DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY?

posted on March 19th, 2023 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley


Move over Little Shop Of Horrors. There’s a new killer musical in town and it’s Randy Rogel’s murderously clever dark-comedy gem Did You Hear What Walter Paisley Did Today?, now making its World Premiere debut at the La Mirada Theatre.
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THE LONELY FEW

posted on March 18th, 2023 at 12:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony-winning sensation Lauren Patten returns to SoCal theater as a queer musician trapped in smalltown Kentucky in The Lonely Few, a Geffen Playhouse World Premiere that shifts somewhat jarringly halfway through from a dramatic play interspersed with live rock club performances into a more traditional musical in which songs take the place of dialog.
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PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE

posted on March 13th, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso square off to both whimsical and profound effect in Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Steve Martin’s delightful theatrical soufflé, now weaving its magic spell at the Ruskin Group Theatre.
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CARDENIO

posted on March 13th, 2023 at 11:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Art imitates life as Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee imitate Shakespeare (albeit in contemporary prose) in Cardenio, and while the playwriting duo’s take on the Bard’s mismatched-lovers comedies is a bit hit-and-miss, its City Garage debut is nothing if not a feast for the eyes.
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THE HUMAN COMEDY

posted on March 12th, 2023 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Smalltown America circa WWII has rarely been brought to life as charmingly and powerfully, or staged as imaginatively as it is in Actors Co-op’s captivating World Premiere adaptation of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

posted on March 7th, 2023 at 4:45 PM by Steven Stanley


A simple fact-finding assignment pits Gen Z against Gen X and accuracy against truth in The Lifespan Of A Fact, the very funny—and very discussion-prompting—latest from the Fountain Theatre.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

LOVE AND INFORMATION

posted on March 4th, 2023 at 12:58 PM by Steven Stanley


Eight actors play over a hundred characters in four dozen mostly comedic vignettes over the course of a briskly moving seventy-five minutes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the provocative, mind-blowing latest from Antaeus Theatre Company.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review, WOW!

GREY GARDENS

posted on March 1st, 2023 at 12:33 PM by Steven Stanley


Trisha Rapier delivered a dazzling star turn in Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only staging of Grey Gardens, an award-caliber performance made even more remarkable given the rehearsal-time limit for an Actors’ Equity-sanctioned concert staged reading: 25 hours max.
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