A GREAT WILDERNESS

posted on October 5th, 2022 at 8:51 AM by Steven Stanley


Idaho playwright Samuel D. Hunter tackles gay conversion therapy in his expectations-defying, cliché-free 2014 drama A Great Wilderness, the riveting latest from Rogue Machine Theatre.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY

posted on October 3rd, 2022 at 12:01 AM by Steven Stanley


In all my years of theatergoing, I’ve never seen a play or production quite like Chance Theater’s Orange County Premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity, at once a hilariously spot-on look at the wild, weird, and wacky world of professional wrestling and a subtly scathing critique of the American Melting-Pot Dream.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

REVENGE PORN OR THE STORY OF A BODY

posted on October 1st, 2022 at 3:02 PM by Steven Stanley


A disgruntled ex gets back at his onetime bed partner in the most publicly demeaning of ways by posting online the nude selfies she’d sent him years earlier in Carla Ching’s Revenge Porn or The Story of a Body, the thrillingly hot-button latest from Ammunition Theatre Company.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

BABE

posted on September 26th, 2022 at 11:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Cliffhangers are perfectly fine if you’re writing a series pilot or season finale. Not so much if you’ve written what purports to be a full-length play, which is why, engaged as I was throughout Echo Theater Company’s Babe, I left feeling frustrated, angry, and confused as to why playwright Jessica Goldberg didn’t finish what she’d started so provocatively sixty-five minutes earlier in a more satisfyingly conclusive way.
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ANDREW LIPPA’S WILD PARTY

posted on September 25th, 2022 at 11:22 AM by Steven Stanley


Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre once again gives professional houses a run for their much bigger bucks with a fabulously staged and performed Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party.
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EVERYBODY

posted on September 24th, 2022 at 3:38 PM by Steven Stanley

If 90 minutes of occasionally amusing but more often longwinded philosophizing about the meaning of (among other things) Life, Love, Friendship, Beauty, Material Possessions, and Death sounds like your thing, then Antaeus Theatre Company’s Everybody, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 21st-century adaptation of a 600-year-old morality play, might just be your cup of tea. It wasn’t mine.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Theater Review

SANCTUARY CITY

posted on September 19th, 2022 at 11:40 AM by Steven Stanley


Martyna Majok puts a personal face on the plight of undocumented Americanized teens in Sanctuary City, a riveting, thought-provoking Los Angeles Premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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OKLAHOMA!

posted on September 16th, 2022 at 3:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Forget every Oklahoma! you’ve ever seen. Forget everything you’ve ever heard or said or thought about the 79-year-old classic. Director Daniel Fish’s radically revisionist revival of the Broadway musical that reinvented the genre back in 1943 now feels every bit as revolutionary in 2022 as Rent did in 1994, Spring Awakening in 2006, and Hamilton just a handful of years back.
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