CLUE

posted on September 27th, 2021 at 10:55 AM by Steven Stanley


McCoy Rigby Entertainment returns live and in person to La Mirada with Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity guaranteed to cure the pandemic blues.
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, Theater Review, WOW!

AS GOOD AS GOLD

posted on September 26th, 2021 at 10:12 AM by Steven Stanley

Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
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posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

OUR MAN IN SANTIAGO

posted on September 24th, 2021 at 11:39 PM by Steven Stanley


The CIA enlists the most improbable of assassins to rid Chile of its democratically elected president in Mark Wilding’s edge-of-your-seat hilarious Our Man In Santiago, an incisively directed, pitch-perfectly performed World Premiere from Theatre West.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

LIZASTRATA

posted on September 12th, 2021 at 9:51 AM by Steven Stanley


Start spreading the news. The Troubadour Theater Company is back, live and in person at the Getty Villa, mashing up the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata with the Troubies’ trademark blend of zany jokes, inspired adlibs (impromptu or scripted, you be the judge), snappy dance moves, and “the music of Liza Minnelli” in the cleverly redubbed Lizastrata.
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posted in Musical Spoof, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

JULIUS CAESAR

posted on September 6th, 2021 at 10:09 AM by Steven Stanley


Adeptly trimmed to a brisk eighty minutes by Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer and filled with as much action as it is with political intrigue, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adds up to classical theater as thrillingly staged as it is easily accessible to 21st Century audiences.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

CLOSELY RELATED KEYS

posted on August 29th, 2021 at 11:07 AM by Steven Stanley

A hotshot young corporate lawyer discovers she has an Iraqi half-sister from her father’s long ago extramarital relationship in Wendy Graf’s Closely Related Keys, an International City Theatre production every bit as topical as it was in its 2014 World Premiere, though ultimately not as effective as it was the first time round.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

THE LAST, BEST SMALL TOWN

posted on August 16th, 2021 at 9:46 AM by Steven Stanley


Two families living side by side in smalltown America, their teenage offspring head-over-heels in love, and an all-seeing, all-knowing stage manager serving as our narrator. Sound familiar?

Only the town in question isn’t Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. It’s Fillmore, California, the families are the Millers and the Gonzalezes, and the year is 2005 in John Guerra’s World Premiere wonder The Last, Best Small Town, now captivating audiences at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT

posted on August 14th, 2021 at 12:23 AM by Steven Stanley

If you’re in the mood for an hour of decidedly offbeat whimsy, then John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Atwater Village, just might be your theatrical thing. At the very least, you’ll reward its star Jim Ortlieb with much earned cheers.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, Theater Review

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