SOMETHING ROTTEN!

posted on April 25th, 2022 at 10:19 AM by Steven Stanley


Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center returns to live programming with a scaled-down but sensational staging of the 2015 Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on April 25th, 2022 at 12:35 AM by Steven Stanley

Ragged around the edges but blessed with some terrific lead performances, Cupcake Theatre’s intimate revival of Broadway’s Legally Blonde would have me singing its praises even louder had the show not started thirty minutes late to accommodate walk-ins.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review

A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2

posted on April 19th, 2022 at 9:00 AM by Steven Stanley

Impeccably acted by a admirably diverse cast, Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 would be another all-around International City Theatre winner if its midsection didn’t get bogged down in a talky rehashing of past events.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

JANE AUSTEN UNSCRIPTED

posted on April 17th, 2022 at 9:49 AM by Steven Stanley


Impro Theatre is back with Jane Austen Unscripted, their first in-person show in two-and-a-half years, and that means “new characters, new love stories, and new escapades” twice on Saturdays and twice on Sundays under sunny Toluca Lake skies in the Garry Marshall Theatre Garden.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Improv, Theater Review, WOW!

BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY

posted on April 16th, 2022 at 11:15 AM by Steven Stanley


Love, hate, and jealousy. Pearl Cleage’s Blues For An Alabama Sky has them all, and an abundance of laughs to boot, in Center Theatre Group’s sensatinal revival of the Atlanta-based playwright’s 1995 hit, directed by none other than its original Alliance Theatre Company star Phylicia Rashad.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

ANNA IN THE TROPICS

posted on April 12th, 2022 at 9:00 AM by Steven Stanley


Illicit passions set a Florida cigar factory aflame in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, the dramatic latest from A Noise Within.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

CRY IT OUT

posted on April 10th, 2022 at 9:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Stay-at-home nursing moms rarely get a center-stage spotlight, which is just one reason to cheer the arrival of Molly Smith Metzler’s funny, compelling, deeply touching dramedy Cry It Out to Orange County’s Chance Theater.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

BRIGHT HALF LIFE

posted on April 9th, 2022 at 12:22 PM by Steven Stanley


An interracial same-sex couple embark upon a four-decade-long roller-coaster ride of romantic highs and lows in the Road Theatre Company’s Los Angeles Premiere of Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life, as funny and sad and moving a two-character dramedy as I’ve seen in ages.
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posted in North Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

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