DI LADY DI

posted on November 13th, 2022 at 4:18 PM by Steven Stanley


Serendipitously timed to coincide with the arrival of Season Five of Netflix’s The Crown, the pre-Thanksgiving return engagement of Di Lady Di makes it abundantly clear why Charlotte Munson’s cleverly titled solo bio-musical was named Best Musical at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022.
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posted in North Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

ALL IS TRUE, OR HENRY VIII

posted on November 7th, 2022 at 10:24 AM by Steven Stanley


Shakespeare aficionados will welcome the arrival of All Is True, or Henry VIII, aka the play even they probably didn’t know he (co)wrote, as well as the arrival of its gifted director as the new artistic head of the North Hollywood Shakespeareans who call themselves The Porters Of Hellsgate.
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posted in Classic Play, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

2:22 – A GHOST STORY

posted on November 5th, 2022 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley


October may be over, but it’s still Halloween season at the Ahmanson as Center Theatre Group treats theatrical thrill seekers to the U.S. premiere of the West End phenomenon that is Danny Robins’ scrumptiously scare-packed haunted house chiller 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Thriller, WOW!

RENT

posted on October 31st, 2022 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Jonathan Larson’s Rent surrounds the audience quite literally in Coeurage Ensemble’s stunningly groundbreaking, entirely sold-out reinvention of the much-revived 1996 Broadway classic.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

A FEW GOOD MEN

posted on October 30th, 2022 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley


A suspense-filled script, courtroom sequences that would do Perry Mason proud, and an eye-opening look at what it means to be a United States Marine, A Few Good Men delivers with all of the above in La Mirada Theatre’s gripping, Broadway-caliber revival of Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 edge-of-your-seater.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Drama, Theater Review, WOW!

INTO THE WOODS

posted on October 29th, 2022 at 12:25 PM by Steven Stanley


Master director Ken Sawyer and some tremendously talented USC student performers and designers join creative forces to give audiences a highly inventive new take on the 20th-century musical theater masterpiece Into The Woods.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

LEND ME A TENOR

posted on October 24th, 2022 at 11:24 AM by Steven Stanley


Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor closes International City Theatre’s 2022 season on a farcical high note, directed to razor-sharp perfection by Todd Nielsen and terrifically acted by an all-around stellar cast.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

AUGUST WILSON’S RADIO GOLF

posted on October 24th, 2022 at 9:42 AM by Steven Stanley


A Noise Within follows the absolutely fabulous Animal Farm with August Wilson’s most accessible play since Fences, the powerful, gripping, and often unexpectedly comedic Radio Golf.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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