KEN LUDWIG’S THE GAME’S AFOOT; OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS

posted on November 27th, 2021 at 10:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Following their all-around fabulous London Suite, The Group Rep makes it two in a row with a terrifically directed/acted revival of the Ken Ludwig-meets-Conan Doyle-meets-Agatha Christie farce The Game’s Afoot; Or Holmes For The Holidays, a particularly tasty treat for audiences in search of December fare that’s not Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

ALLEY OF MISFITS

posted on November 21st, 2021 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley

A couple of homeless women cross paths with a mixed bag of acquaintances and strangers on Thanksgiving Eve in Barbera Ann Howard and Marjorie Lewit’s World Premiere dramedy Alley Of Misfits, itself somewhat of a mixed bag, but one whose pluses ultimately outweigh its minuses.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

PARADISE BLUE

posted on November 20th, 2021 at 12:20 PM by Steven Stanley


A nightclub owner haunted by a lifetime of demons meets a woman who spells “trouble” with a capital T in Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, the kind of noir Hollywood could have made back in the late 1940s but didn’t, an explosive West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

HEAD OVER HEELS

posted on November 15th, 2021 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley


In any other year, Pasadena Playhouse’s Head Over Heels would simply be a Best Production frontrunner. Arriving in November of 2021, this celebration of racial, sexual, and gender diversity set to over a dozen The Go-Go’s hits is nothing short of a theatrical miracle.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

@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

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