@PLAYAZ

posted on November 14th, 2021 at 12:49 PM by Steven Stanley


A trio of adult gamers face post-lockdown challenges in Dana Schwartz’s engaging World Premiere comedy @Playaz, a play so of-the-moment it seems incredible that the 2019 O’Neill Finalist was originally written pre-Covid.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER

posted on November 13th, 2021 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Sparks fly, terrors are confronted, and truths are revealed to powerful effect when an African-American social media activist opens her door to a stranger in the World Premiere of Inda Craig Galván’s A Hit Dog Will Holler, a Playwrights Arena/Skylight Theatre Company co-production at the Skylight.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND

posted on November 11th, 2021 at 10:47 AM by Steven Stanley


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre returned to live programming on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 with a fabulous two-performance-only The World Goes ‘Round, an irresistible two-hour medley of over two dozen of Kander & Ebb’s most memorable songs.
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posted in Musical Revue, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review

WAITING IN THE WINGS: THE MUSICAL

posted on November 8th, 2021 at 10:06 AM by Steven Stanley

A Montana gay boy with stardom in his eyes gets accidentally cast in an off-off-off-Broadway male strip show and multiple complications ensue in the stage adaptation of Jeffrey A. Johns’ 2016 movie musical hit Waiting In The Wings, now getting its World Premiere at Westminster’s Rose Center Theater.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE SOLDIER DREAMS & NEVER SWIM ALONE

posted on November 7th, 2021 at 11:12 AM by Steven Stanley

Daniel MacIvor’s unique gifts are on display in Open Fist Theatre Company’s The Soldier Dreams and Never Swim Alone, best seen as an evening double feature to fully appreciate the Canadian playwright at his most rule-breaking and rewarding.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Short One-Act, Theater Review, WOW!

AUGUST WILSON’S SEVEN GUITARS

posted on November 5th, 2021 at 11:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Performances are impeccable and so is its stunning production design, but I found my mind drifting throughout much of the over three-hour-long August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at A Noise Within.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review

MAMMA MIA!

posted on November 1st, 2021 at 10:26 AM by Steven Stanley


Mamma Mia! is back, live on stage in La Mirada, and even if you’re one those who saw it on Broadway (or at any time during its fifteen-plus years of touring the country) and thought “Meh,” you owe it to yourself to see how much better the international megahit can be when freed from its original Broadway direction, choreography, and design.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

posted on October 31st, 2021 at 9:10 AM by Steven Stanley

Musical Theatre Repertory, USC’s entirely student-produced, student-directed, student-cast, student-designed troupe of multitalented Trojans is back in business after a twenty-month hiatus, and audiences lucky enough to catch their ninety-minute “quarantined concert version” of Broadway’s The Addams Family can count themselves every bit as fortunate as the student talents at long last given new opportunities to shine.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student Production, Theater Review, WOW!

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