SALVAGE

posted on October 11th, 2021 at 9:39 AM by Steven Stanley


The pre-pandemic hit Salvage is back, a couple of terrific cast additions adding even more grit and depth to its already compelling mix of haunted memories and haunting country-flavored songs.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

THE NINTH DOOR

posted on October 10th, 2021 at 6:49 PM by Steven Stanley


A playwright/actor’s two Marine Corps deployments in Afghanistan inform Matthew Domenico and Katherine Connor Duff’s The Ninth Door, now holding audiences riveted at West Hollywood’s The Other Space.
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ASCENSION

posted on October 8th, 2021 at 9:09 AM by Steven Stanley

D.G. Watson’s trippy Ascension may run a good fifteen minutes too long and leave an audience wondering what on earth this “immersive, interactive, sci-fi mystery thriller” was all about, but the Echo Theater Company World Premiere is nothing if not different, and a terrific showcase for its designers.
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HAVE A GOOD ONE

posted on October 3rd, 2021 at 9:23 PM by Steven Stanley

A trio of 20ish Midwesterners, two of them shirtless greeters at a trendy clothing chain called Penderleigh & Ashe, come of age circa Y2K in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s Have A Good One, the crowd-pleasing latest from Pop-up Playhouse.
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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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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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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!

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