NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on March 6th, 2022 at 11:17 AM by Steven Stanley


A gifted young director has reinvented Broadway’s Next To Normal for USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory in an all-student production blessed by a uniformly superb cast, seamlessly integrated choreography, and an electrifying lighting design.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student Production, Theater Review, WOW!

A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING

posted on March 3rd, 2022 at 10:17 AM by Steven Stanley

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre bids a bittersweet farewell to its longtime Claremont home with A Grand Night For Singing, a tuneful collection of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, from Broadway classics like “Something Wonderful,” “If I Loved You,” and “I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy” to lesser known gems like “I Know It Can Happen Again.”
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posted in Musical Revue, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review

MARVIN’S ROOM

posted on February 28th, 2022 at 4:41 PM by Steven Stanley


It takes a gifted playwrights to find comedy in the darkest of scenarios and a talent-blessed theater company to bring these words to pitch-perfect life, which is why Actors Co-op’s long-awaited revival of Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room succeeds in evoking abundant laughter through well-earned tears, with an emphasis on the former.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

posted on February 27th, 2022 at 9:02 PM by Steven Stanley


A splendid cast, innovative direction, the most gorgeous costumes in town, and Stephen Sondheim at his most sublime are just several of the reasons to celebrate Knot Free Productions’ intimate staging of the rarely revived A Little Night Music at Greenway Court Theatre.
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ASSASSINS

posted on February 21st, 2022 at 7:03 PM by Steven Stanley


Presidential killers and would-be killers take center stage at East West Players in Assassins, Stephen Sondheim at his most provocative, innovative, and engrossing.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

posted on February 20th, 2022 at 11:35 AM by Steven Stanley


All’s Well That Ends Well might be Shakespeare’s most quoted title, but it’s not often theatergoers get to see the play itself performed live on stage, just one reason A Noise Within’s Spring 2022 season opener is one that no L.A. Bardophile will want to miss.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

POWER OF SAIL

posted on February 19th, 2022 at 11:24 AM by Steven Stanley


The consequences are catastrophic when a respected Ivy League professor invites an infamous white nationalist to speak at Harvard in Paul Grellong’s Power Of Sail, a powerhouse Geffen Playhouse West Coast Premiere sure to have audiences talking long after the lights go out, and not just because of Bryan Cranston’s riveting lead performance and Amy Brenneman’s fiery featured turn.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SLAVE PLAY

posted on February 17th, 2022 at 7:17 PM by Steven Stanley


A trio of interracial couples let it all hang out in group therapy as Center Theatre Group presents the Broadway production of Jeremy O. Harris’s daringly provocative, deliberately discomforting, and frequently damn funny Slave Play.
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