THE CALORIE COUNTERS
posted on October 23rd, 2021 at 9:43 AM by Steven StanleyExcess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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Tags: Loft Ensemble, Los Angeles Theater Review, Molly Wagner
posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
posted on October 17th, 2021 at 4:11 PM by Steven Stanley
Musical Theatre West is back, and gloriously so, with A Grand Night For Singing, a grand showcase for the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the five triple-threats who light up the MTW stage.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theatre West, Rodgers & Hammerstein
posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!
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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Tags: Hudson Mainstage Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Randy VanHorner, Tim Alderson
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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Tags: Foxhole Theater Company, Katherine Connor Duff, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matthew Domenico, The Actor's Company
posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!
ASCENSION
posted on October 8th, 2021 at 9:09 AM by Steven StanleyD.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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Tags: D.G. Watson, Echo Theater Company, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, World Premiere
HAVE A GOOD ONE
posted on October 3rd, 2021 at 9:23 PM by Steven StanleyA 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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Tags: Christian McLaughlin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pop Up Playhouse, Stan Zimmerman, The Dorie Theatre
posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review
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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Tags: La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Sandy Rustin
posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, Theater Review, WOW!
AS GOOD AS GOLD
posted on September 26th, 2021 at 10:12 AM by Steven StanleyTheatre 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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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Marilyn Anderson, Theatre 40
posted in Comedy, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere
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