EDGES

posted on July 18th, 2021 at 7:25 PM by Steven Stanley


The Chance Theater Orange County Premiere of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Edges proves a terrific talent showcase for a quartet of upcoming musical theater stars and the long-awaited chance for audiences to rediscover the thrill of live, in-person performances at the Chance.
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posted in Orange County, Song Cycle, WOW!

TAMING THE LION

posted on July 12th, 2021 at 5:38 PM by Steven Stanley


1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

TEVYE IN NEW YORK

posted on July 11th, 2021 at 7:45 PM by Steven Stanley


If you’ve ever wondered what happened to Tevye and his family after the curtain went down on Fiddler On The Roof, Tom Dugan imagines the fabled milkman’s new life in America in Tevye In New York, a solo performance that reopens The Wallis in an open-air setting just outside the theater’s Beverly Hills digs.
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posted in Solo Performance, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

AN OCTOROON

posted on June 29th, 2021 at 11:50 AM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review

GO WEST

posted on June 26th, 2021 at 5:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Like its Motel 66 companion piece Head East, The Group Rep’s Go West offers L.A. audiences six short plays performed under NoHo skies, an evening of live theater worth checking out if only to quench a thirst left by what has seemed like an endless fifteen months without.
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HEAD EAST

posted on June 20th, 2021 at 4:38 PM by Steven Stanley

Theatergoers eager for an experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly new after a fifteen-month hiatus from live entertainment can now Head East (or Go West on alternate nights) for an evening of six short plays performed under NoHo skies in The Yard, the Group Rep’s newly constructed outdoor space next door to the membership company’s longtime home.
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TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE

posted on May 9th, 2021 at 10:02 AM by Steven Stanley

Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
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posted in San Fernando Valley, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on April 18th, 2021 at 10:12 AM by Steven Stanley

Live theater is back, and what a thrill that is, even viewed at a distance from the safety of one’s car outside Pasadena’s Gamble House, with Lineage Performing Arts Center’s superbly performed, ingeniously directed, imaginatively choreographed open-air staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal.
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posted in Musical, Pasadena, WOW!

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