GREASE

posted on July 10th, 2022 at 12:30 PM by Steven Stanley


Contemporary casting choices bring Musical Theatre West’s 2022 Grease revival into the 21st century to crowd-delighting effect without sacrificing an iota of the show’s 1950s nostalgia.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

posted on July 9th, 2022 at 3:52 PM by Steven Stanley


Tim Venable’s hot-button-issue World Premiere two-hander The Beautiful People will have you thinking and talking about the gut-punching latest from Rogue Machine long after the stage has gone dark at Melrose’s Matrix Theatre.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL

posted on July 9th, 2022 at 9:13 AM by Steven Stanley


Sumptuous and spectacular and filled with as many instantly recognizable pop hits as in four or five jukebox musicals put together, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is all this and more.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

posted on July 3rd, 2022 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley


Director James Fowler and Open Fist Theatre Company discover astonishing new depth and meaning in a centuries-old classic by transposing William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from ancient Greece to the Antebellum South.
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posted in Classic Play, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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