MURDER AFTER HOURS (THE HOLLOW)

posted on August 31st, 2024 at 11:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Agatha Christie is at her fiendishly clever best in the very long but very entertaining Murder After Hours (The Hollow), now being revived to deliciously brain-teasing effect at North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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posted in North Hollywood, Theater Review, Thriller, WOW!

HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR

posted on August 30th, 2024 at 5:14 PM by Steven Stanley

The stunts, the puppetry, and the multimedia effects are indeed spectacular, but Lisa Sanaye Dring and Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular ends up biting off more than it can chew in combining all of the above with the doomed love story of two gay stuntmen, one proudly out, one deeply closeted, in an industry where being heterosexual is a must.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN

posted on August 27th, 2024 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE HISPANIC/LATINO/LATINA/LATINX/LATINÉ VOTE

posted on August 26th, 2024 at 8:59 AM by Steven Stanley


If pre-election worries have got you feeling all angsty about November 5, then head on over to Theatricum Botanicum for The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote, Bernardo Cubría’s couldn’t-be-more-topical-or-entertaining cure for the pre-election blues.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

THE DOUBLE V

posted on August 26th, 2024 at 8:59 AM by Steven Stanley

A little-known aspect of World War II-era African-American history is brought to life in Carole Eglash-Kosoff’s entertaining, elucidating, mostly successful The Double V, an International City Theatre World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE 39 STEPS

posted on August 19th, 2024 at 9:04 AM by Steven Stanley


South Pasadena Theatre Workshop treats audiences to 75 minutes of virtually nonstop laughter in their somewhat abridged take on Patrick Barlow’s masterful four-actor stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version of John Buchan’s spy classic The 39 Steps.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

THE MUSIC MAN

posted on August 17th, 2024 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Harold Hill is back in town and aiming to bilk the citizens of River City, Iowa in Meredith Willson’s bona fide Broadway classic The Music Man, now being given an all-around splendid 67th-anniversary revival at La Crescenta’s Highlands Theater.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN

posted on August 13th, 2024 at 4:13 PM by Steven Stanley


That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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