MAN OF LA MANCHA

posted on January 27th, 2020 at 11:32 AM by Steven Stanley

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre just keeps on getting better and better, proof positive of which can be found in their 2020 season opener, a top-of-the-line big-stage revival of the 1966 Broadway classic Man Of La Mancha.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

posted on January 26th, 2020 at 11:27 AM by Steven Stanley

The Brewster sisters are once again at their mirthfully murderous ways in La Mirada Theatre’s pitch-perfect revival of Joseph Kesserling’s 1941 Broadway classic Arsenic And Old Lace.
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posted in Classic Play, Downey/La Mirada, Theater Review, WOW!

THE WATER TRIBE

posted on January 25th, 2020 at 11:17 AM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Don Cummings could well have titled his strange-but-never-boring new play Trainwreck rather than The Water Tribe because like an accident about to happen, you simply can’t take your eyes away from its hot mess of a female protagonist or Hannah Prichard’s tornado of a lead performance.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

DOGFIGHT

posted on January 24th, 2020 at 12:18 PM by Steven Stanley

USC freshman Lily Castle is pure perfection opposite sophomore Terry Mullany in young River Phoenix mode in Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012 and the latest example of Musical Theatre Repertory at its student-directed, student-performed, student-designed best.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LAST SHIP

posted on January 23rd, 2020 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley

Sting celebrates his working-class Northern English roots in The Last Ship, the pop superstar’s gloriously scored-and-sung new(ish) musical, now bringing Ahmanson audiences to their feet.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

RED INK

posted on January 20th, 2020 at 12:39 PM by Steven Stanley

What’s been happening to print journalism since the Internet took control could drive a newspaper person crazy, or so a certain alternative press reporter discovers quite literally in Steven Leigh Morris’s brand new play Red Ink, the exciting, adventurous latest from Playwrights’ Arena.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

IT’S ONLY A PLAY

posted on January 19th, 2020 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley

If you love live theater and the people who make it, you will absolutely adore Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delectable latest, and even if you don’t know Ben Brantley from Ben Franklin, you’ll have a smashingly good time at Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

NOWHERE ON THE BORDER

posted on January 18th, 2020 at 12:40 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Carlos Lacámara puts a personal face on the hot-button issue of illegal immigration in Nowhere On The Border, a Road Theatre Company drama that works best when focusing on its odd couple of 50something adversaries.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review

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