KING JAMES

posted on June 9th, 2022 at 10:26 AM by Steven Stanley


Two young men forge a life-changing best-friendship thanks to their shared love of basketball (and more specifically of b-ball superstar LeBron James) in Rajiv Joseph’s heart-stopping brom-com King James, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Mark Taper Forum.
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THE DESPERATE HOURS

posted on June 6th, 2022 at 10:04 AM by Steven Stanley

Joseph Hayes’ The Desperate Hours may have won a Tony as the Best Play of 1955, but the 67-year-old suspense melodrama is showing its age these days with its stilted dialog and Father Knows Best-meets-Dragnet characters, and some questionable casting choices don’t help its 2022 revival at the Group Rep.
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COME FROM AWAY

posted on June 2nd, 2022 at 8:47 AM by Steven Stanley


The 2017 Broadway Tony winner Come From Away has returned to the Ahmanson Theatre for a two-week run, once again proving that heroism, humanity, and heart can triumph over terror. Not only that, but this supremely feel-good musical remains one of the best directed and most powerfully performed National Tours I’ve seen in many a year.
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KING OF THE YEES

posted on May 29th, 2022 at 9:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Sierra Madre Playhouse is back in business with Lauren Yee’s affectionate, affecting, winningly amusing tribute to her Chinese-American dad in King Of The Yees.
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BELOVED

posted on May 28th, 2022 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


The Road Theatre Company’s three-shows-in-a-row return season goes from good to better to best of all with the World Premiere of Arthur Holden’s Beloved, a suspense-filled, twist-packed stunner that will leave you blown-away and breathless.
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UNTITLED BABY PLAY

posted on May 27th, 2022 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Performances are impeccable (and laughs are abundant, at least in Act One), but by the time Laila Ayad, Anna Rose Hopkins, Courtney Sauls, Sonal Shah, Jenny Soo, and Sarah Utterback finally take their bows (at close to 11:00 p.m. on Opening Night), a more suitable title for Nina Braddock’s Untitled Baby Play would be Interminable Baby Play.
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THE PLAY’S THE THING

posted on May 23rd, 2022 at 10:20 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s a reason why so-called “old chestnuts” are rarely revived, evidence of which can be found in Theatre 40’s mostly sluggish 2022 revival of Ferenc Molnar’s 1920s chestnut The Play’s The Thing.
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GOD OF CARNAGE

posted on May 22nd, 2022 at 9:44 AM by Steven Stanley


Yasmina Reza’s God Of Carnage has returned to Los Angeles eleven years after it broke Ahmanson box office records, this time round at the Odyssey Theatre, an intimate setting that better suits Reza’s hilariously edgy comedy of manners (and lack thereof), terrifically performed by a crackerjack ensemble of four.
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