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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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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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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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posted in Drama, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

BEARINGS

posted on September 10th, 2022 at 11:01 AM by Steven Stanley

Is 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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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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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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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

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