JAGGED LITTLE PILL
posted on September 16th, 2022 at 9:08 AM by Steven Stanley
A double album’s worth of Alanis Morissette’s Greatest Hits provide the plot-propelling dramatic soundtrack to Jagged Little Pill, the thrillingly of-the-moment Tony winner that redefines the oft-derided “jukebox musical” to stunning effect.
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Tags: Alanis Morisette, Broadway In Hollywood, Diablo Cody, Glen Ballard, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!
13 THE MUSICAL
posted on September 12th, 2022 at 10:11 AM by Steven Stanley
Ventura county teens reveal budding triple-threat talents in Panic! Productions’ exhilarating live staging of Jason Robert Brown’s 13 The Musical at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center.
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Tags: Dan Eilish, Jason Robert Brown, Panic! Productions, Robert Horn, Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, Ventura County Theater Review
posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!
SILENT SKY
posted on September 11th, 2022 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley
Sierra Madre Playhouse pays tribute to a groundbreaking, trailblazing astronomer who refused to let her gender hold her back in Lauren Gunderson’s engaging, informative biodrama Silent Sky.
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Tags: Lauren Gunderson, Los Angeles Theater Review, Sierra Madre Playhouse
posted in Drama, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!
BEARINGS
posted on September 10th, 2022 at 11:01 AM by Steven StanleyIs it real or is are we in The Twilight Zone? One thing is for certain. Matt Chait’s Bearings will keep you on the edge of your seat for eighty-five entertaining minutes at Hollywood’s Flight Theatre.
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Tags: Flight Theatre at The Complex, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matt Chait
posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere
ANIMAL FARM
posted on September 5th, 2022 at 11:16 AM by Steven Stanley
A superlative cast, inspired direction, and designs that are the epitome of imaginative top the list of reasons not to miss Peter Hall’s musical adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm at A Noise Within.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Adrian Mitchell, George Orwell, Los Angeles Theater Review, Peter Hall, Richard Peaslee
posted in Pasadena, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!
VALLEY SONG
posted on August 29th, 2022 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley
South African master playwright Athol Fugard tells a coming-of-age story as universal as it is specific to his homeland in Valley Songs, the poignant and powerful latest from Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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Tags: Athol Fugard, International City Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!
THE WEST SIDE WALTZ
posted on August 28th, 2022 at 10:07 AM by Steven Stanley
It’s a family affair at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum as the legendary Grandpa Walton’s eldest daughter Ellen Geer, her sister Melora Marshall, and Ellen’s daughter Willow Geer make theatrical magic in The West Side Waltz, Ernest Thompson’s captivating slice of 1980s New York life.
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Tags: Ernest Thompson, Los Angeles Theater Review, Theatricum Botanicum
posted in Revival Of A 20th-Century Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!
NORMAL NOISES
posted on August 27th, 2022 at 3:34 PM by Steven Stanley
If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then you’re bound to leave Normal Noises, Clara Rodriguez’s quirky sextet of “plays about real life, only more so” in the halest of health.
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Tags: Clara Rodriguez, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Group Rep
posted in North Hollywood, Short One-Act, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!
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