LAVENDER MEN

posted on August 23rd, 2022 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley


Queer playwright Roger Q. Mason explores the love that dared not speak its name between Abraham Lincoln and his “close friend” Elmer Ellsworth in Lavender Men, at once a gay American history fantasia, a very public therapy session for its self-described “black, fat, femme” author, and one of the most stunning productions in town.
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TROUBLE THE WATER

posted on August 22nd, 2022 at 9:10 AM by Steven Stanley


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum pays tribute to a little-known figure in African-American history in Ellen Geer’s illuminating, emotion-packed biodrama Trouble The Water, freely adapted from Rebecca Dwight Bruff’s award-winning 2019 novel of the same name.
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MUD

posted on August 22nd, 2022 at 9:00 AM by Steven Stanley

Loft Ensemble imagines a dystopian future populated by ten nameless, genderless global calamity survivors in Mud, a World Premiere drama I found alternately pretentious and preachy
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ROMEO & JULIET: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ENDING

posted on August 15th, 2022 at 9:49 AM by Steven Stanley


Should Romeo woo Juliet or should he court Rosaline? This is just the first of three major life decisions left up to an audience vote at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Ann and Shawn Fraistat’s Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending, a hilariously clever new take on a centuries-old classic.
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posted in Spoof, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

BEACH PEOPLE

posted on August 14th, 2022 at 9:46 AM by Steven Stanley


A quartet of sunbathers philosophize on the sand in Charles A. Duncombe’s absurdist existential comedy Beach People, a City Garage World Premiere impressively acted by a skin-revealing cast of four.
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THE PROM

posted on August 11th, 2022 at 10:49 AM by Steven Stanley

A gaggle of liberal-minded Broadway narcissists descend on conservative Middle America to aid an Indiana teen who just wants to dance in public with the girl she loves in The Prom, the multiple-Tony-nominated musical that now ranks sky-high on my list of 21st-century favorites.
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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

posted on August 9th, 2022 at 11:39 AM by Steven Stanley


Set in the Eisenhower 1950s and featuring a Goodness Gracious Great Bunch of Top 40 oldies, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s The Merry Wives Of Windsor takes comedic flight as the inspired vision of director Ellen Geer, who’s not afraid to alter the text if it earns laughter to do Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel proud.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

posted on August 8th, 2022 at 9:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Torrance Theatre Company’s finger-snappingly fabulous The Addams Family redefines what a community theater can accomplish with a crackerjack volunteer-actor cast and just as much talent behind the scenes.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

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