NEVER BEEN KISSED: THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL

posted on February 2nd, 2020 at 12:11 PM by Steven Stanley

1990s teen romcom fans in particular won’t want to miss Rockwell Table & Stage’s latest musical-comedy romp, Never Been Kissed: The Unauthorized Musical.
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THIS SIDE OF CRAZY

posted on February 1st, 2020 at 11:49 AM by Steven Stanley

No one writes about the sordid lives of Southern Baptist women with more vinegar-laced love and affection than Del Shores, once again delighting Zephyr Theatre audiences with his latest dramedic treat, a rib-tickling, tear-jerking Kentucky-fried feast appropriately dubbed This Side Of Crazy.
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SUNDAY DINNER

posted on January 31st, 2020 at 12:27 PM by Steven Stanley

An abundance of secrets and lies get revealed over the course of one eventful evening in Tony Blake’s funny, engaging, twist-filled Sunday Dinner, now getting a spiffy, splendidly acted World Premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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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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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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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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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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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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