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!

BLUES IN THE NIGHT

posted on October 25th, 2021 at 9:25 AM by Steven Stanley

A man gives three very different women plenty of reasons to sing Blues In The Night in ICT/Ebony Rep’s thrilling revival of Sheldon Epps’ Tony-nominated Broadway musical revue.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

POOR CLARE

posted on October 24th, 2021 at 10:23 AM by Steven Stanley

Contemporary speak proves an ideal fit for Poor Clare, Chiara Atik’s screwball-comedy look at a 13th-century Paris Hilton who gave it all up for God and ended up a Saint.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE CALORIE COUNTERS

posted on October 23rd, 2021 at 9:43 AM by Steven Stanley

Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING

posted on October 17th, 2021 at 4:11 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre West is back, and gloriously so, with A Grand Night For Singing, a grand showcase for the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the five triple-threats who light up the MTW stage.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

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