EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON

posted on January 17th, 2020 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley

Epic in its scope and timeframe, intimate in its intersecting family dramas, bleak in its depiction of a world doomed by climate change, and as thrillingly theatrical as stage storytelling gets, Rogue Machine’s West Coast Premiere of Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes In London is sure to be one of the season’s most talked-about productions.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

FIREFLIES

posted on January 14th, 2020 at 10:43 AM by Steven Stanley

An oversexed Martin Luther King-like preacher and his overstressed wife find the cracks in their marriage increasingly tough to overlook in Fireflies, Donja R. Love’s overwrought Civil Rights-era two-hander whose melodramatic overload proves distressingly underwhelming.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, Two-Hander

HEATHERS THE MUSICAL

posted on January 11th, 2020 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley

Heathers The Musical proves a terrific talent showcase for the high schoolers, undergrads, and just-out-of-college triple-threats who strut their stuff at the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center in a Studio C Performing Arts staging marred only by an Opening Night lighting malfunction and the most rudimentary of sets.
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posted in Musical, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, Ventura County

BLUE MAN GROUP ON TOUR

posted on January 8th, 2020 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley

The quirky trio of pseudo-extraterrestrials known round the world as Blue Man Group have arrived at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts with their 2020 Speechless Tour to dazzle and delight with their patented brand of quirky physical comedy, seemingly superhuman feats, and audience interaction for kids of all ages.
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posted in National Tour, Orange County, Special Event, Theater Review, WOW!

BAD HABITS

posted on January 6th, 2020 at 11:26 AM by Steven Stanley

A nonagenarian TV legend spars with a quintet of salty-tongued singing nuns in Steve Mazur’s comedic crowd-pleaser Bad Habits, a holiday hit for Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre held over to start 2020 with a bang.
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posted in Play With Songs, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

CHARLEY’S AUNT

posted on January 4th, 2020 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley

Effervescent performances by a pitch-perfect cast, inspired direction by a Broadway National Tour vet only just out of his teens, and a script so fresh and funny, you’d hardly guess it was written over a hundred-twenty-five years ago combine to make Glendale Centre Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Brandon Thomas’s Charley’s Aunt the year’s first bona fide comedy hit.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL

posted on December 23rd, 2019 at 9:53 AM by Steven Stanley

The March sisters come of age once more in Little Women The Musical, engagingly performed by Westchester’s Kentwood Players, though not with the caliber of voices that would make its songs truly take flight.
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posted in Musical, South Bay, Theater Review

DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS

posted on December 21st, 2019 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley

Production values are low but the laughter quotient is high in writer-director Paul Storiale’s Dysfunctional Family Christmas, 70 minutes of wacky 1980s sitcom-style fun.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review

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