GOOD PEOPLE

posted on December 12th, 2021 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley


Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 gives David Lindsay-Abaire’s consistently compelling Good People an impeccably acted intimate theater revival whose only real minus is its scenic design.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 11th, 2021 at 1:37 AM by Steven Stanley


Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at A Noise Within. The annual tradition is back for 2021 in a production that captures all the magic and the mystery of the classic holiday tale as Dickens first imagined it back in 1843, once again bedecked with one of the most gorgeous production designs in town.
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posted in Pasadena, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

STRIKING 12

posted on December 5th, 2021 at 11:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Rock, folk, jazz and pop get fused to exhilarating effect in Striking 12, the most uniquely original Chance Theater holiday musical to date.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO MOTOWN

posted on December 4th, 2021 at 5:18 PM by Steven Stanley


The Troubies are back at their old stomping grounds in Toluca Lake with a fresh new take on one of their all-time favorite holiday offerings, Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Motown, and what a tune-filled, joy-packed December delight it is.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 2nd, 2021 at 6:10 PM by Steven Stanley


No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve sat through (whether voluntarily or under family duress), the multiple-Tony-winning production whose National Tour marks the grand reopening of the Ahmanson Theater is likely to be the most wildly imaginative, profoundly moving A Christmas Carol you’ve ever seen, or ever will see, performed live on stage.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BAND’S VISIT

posted on December 1st, 2021 at 11:20 AM by Steven Stanley


Rarely have I found myself more thoroughly smitten with a new musical that I am with The Band’s Visit, now enfolding audiences in its warm, welcoming embrace at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

tick, tick…BOOM!

posted on November 29th, 2021 at 10:22 PM by Steven Stanley


With its remarkable Netflix adaptation now garnering much-deserved raves, the time could not be riper for Up Next Productions to revive tick, tick…BOOM! as off-Broadway audiences first discovered it twenty years ago, restaged in 2021 by a terrifically talented director and choreographer and performed by three dynamic young triple threats at Thymele Arts.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CHILDREN

posted on November 28th, 2021 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley

Its Best Play Tony nomination aside, I found Fountain Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children to be a depressing, upsetting downer.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

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