WAITRESS

posted on September 22nd, 2024 at 9:42 AM by Steven Stanley


The winningest Broadway musical romcom since Elle Woods stole hearts in Legally Blonde finally gets its Southern California regional theatre premiere as La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment treat SoCal audiences to Waitress.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

PASCAL AND JULIEN

posted on September 22nd, 2024 at 9:42 AM by Steven Stanley


A boy in search of a father. A man who wants nothing more than to be left alone with his crossword puzzles. A year of unexpected changes in both their lives. This is Daniel Keene’s Pascal and Julien, the magical U.S. Premiere from the 24th Street Theatre.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

BROOKLYN’S WAY

posted on September 22nd, 2024 at 9:41 AM by Steven Stanley

An on-fire Amye Partain is a definite find, but an off-putting male protagonist, an overly tangled time frame, and an approach that takes meta to the extreme do neither the play’s leading lady nor the audience any favors in Sam Henry Kass’s Brooklyn’s Way, a Theatre 68 World Premiere.
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A GOOD GUY

posted on September 16th, 2024 at 12:55 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright David Rambo tackles the hot-button topic of school shootings from the point of view of a teacher who takes matters into her own hands in A Good Guy, a gripping, suspenseful, surprise twist-packed Rogue Machine World Premiere.
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CLARKSTON

posted on September 15th, 2024 at 3:46 PM by Steven Stanley


No one writes with more insight, depth, and compassion about ordinary lives in the American Northwest than prolific Idaho playwright Samuel D. Hunter, whose unique talents are once again on display in the West Coast Premiere of Clarkston, the latest Echo Theater Company spellbinder.
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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

posted on September 14th, 2024 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s hard to imagine a finer revival of Thornton Wilder’s 20th-century American classic The Skin Of Our Teeth than the one now enrapturing audiences at A Noise Within.
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posted in Pasadena, Revival Of A 20th-Century Play, Theater Review, WOW!

DUEL REALITY

posted on September 13th, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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posted in Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

DRAGON LADY

posted on September 13th, 2024 at 9:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Broadway vet Sarah Porkalob pays loving tribute to her feisty Filipina grandmother while bringing to vivid life more than two dozen finely delineated characters and showing off exquisite three-octave pipes in her much lauded solo show Dragon Lady, now paying the most entertaining and compelling of visits to Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.
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posted in Solo Performance, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

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