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!

BUYER & CELLAR

posted on April 4th, 2022 at 9:58 AM by Steven Stanley


Mike Millan and Barbra Streisand share the Broadwater Second Stage in Jonathan Tolins’ deliciously dishy Buyer & Cellar, Celebration Theatre’s long awaited return to live-and-in-person programming.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

A CHORUS LINE

posted on April 4th, 2022 at 9:27 AM by Steven Stanley


The annual USC spring musical is back after a three-year hiatus with director Tim Dang and choreographer Cedric Dodd’s strikingly fresh take on A Chorus Line, a talent showcase for a couple dozen Trojan triple-threats on their way to the top.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

L.A. NOW AND THEN

posted on April 2nd, 2022 at 4:46 PM by Steven Stanley


The longer you’ve lived in Los Angeles, the more Bruce Kimmel’s L.A. Now And Then is likely to resonate with you, but even if names like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill don’t ring a bell, you’ll likely find much to enjoy in this musical love letter to the City of Angels, now playing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood.
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posted in Musical Revue, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY

posted on March 28th, 2022 at 10:27 AM by Steven Stanley

There may well be a compelling play to be written about Walt Disney’s life, but Lucas Hnath’s A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney is not that play.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

SPAMILTON: AN AMERICAN PARODY

posted on March 27th, 2022 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley


Hamilton may have concluded its Pantages Theatre run on Hollywood Blvd., but for those suffering Hamilton withdrawal, Musical Theatre West treats audiences to Spamilton, eighty minutes of Broadway satire at its funniest, cleverest, and most tuneful.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

THE PLAY YOU WANT

posted on March 21st, 2022 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Times may have changed since actors like Lupe Velez, Ricardo Montalbán, and Rita Moreno found themselves pigeonholed into one stereotypical role after another, but perhaps not as much as we’d like to believe, or at least not according to the The Play You Want, Bernardo Cubría’s scathingly funny look at the compromises a writer named Bernardo Cubría must make to make it to Broadway.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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