GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER

posted on June 26th, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Steven Stanley


Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, the sensational latest from Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre, proves as relevant in 2022 as it was sixty-five years ago when Katharine Hepburn won the second of her four Best Actress Oscars in the ground-breaking Stanley Kramer movie classic.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ARENA: A House MUSIC-al

posted on June 26th, 2022 at 12:54 AM by Steven Stanley

A young gay Latino exits the closet to a ‘90s dance club beat in Abel Alvarado’s ARENA: A House MUSIC-al, a heartfelt but overpopulated coming-of-age story that works best when the spotlight is on Alvarado stand-in Lucio, particularly as brought to engaging, charismatic life by newcomer Preston Gonzalez Valle.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere

SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU

posted on June 21st, 2022 at 10:23 AM by Steven Stanley

Christopher Durang takes hilarious, harrowing aim at hardcore Catholicism in his 1980 one-act Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, revived to droll, terrifying life at this year’s Hollywood Fringe.
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posted in Los Angeles, Short One-Act, Theater Review

INTERSTATE

posted on June 19th, 2022 at 11:23 AM by Steven Stanley


A 20something trans man and his lesbian best friend take a road trip across America (and in so doing transform the life of a transgender Kentucky teen) in East West Players’ powerful, exhilarating World Premiere musical Interstate.
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PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL

posted on June 18th, 2022 at 5:46 PM by Steven Stanley

Pretty Woman The Musical has arrived at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre for a three-week run, and if you love the 1990 movie it’s based on as much as I do, I can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy its Broadway adaptation. Just don’t expect the First National Tour’s leading lady to fill Julia Roberts’ thigh-high boots.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review

COCK

posted on June 16th, 2022 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley


A young man finds himself torn between two lovers, one male and one female, in Mike Bartlett’s provocative comedic four-hander Cock, one of the most impressively staged and performed productions I’ve seen at Hollywood Fringe since the festival was inaugurated back in 2010.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE

posted on June 13th, 2022 at 1:49 PM by Steven Stanley


A soon-to-be legendary Florida Panhandle drag queen lights up the stage in International City Theatre’s supremely entertaining production of Matthew Lopez’s 2016 off-Broadway comedy smash The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

ANDRÉ & DORINE

posted on June 12th, 2022 at 9:17 AM by Steven Stanley


Not a single word needs to be spoken for Spain’s Kulunka Teatro to make theatrical magic with André & Dorine, now paying an all too brief visit to The Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown L.A.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

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