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

ELF THE MUSICAL

posted on December 20th, 2019 at 11:04 AM by Steven Stanley

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center welcomes Christmas with Elf The Musical, the delightful, tuneful Broadway stage adaptation of the 2003 Will Ferrell family favorite.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER

posted on December 16th, 2019 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley

When it comes to terrorizing an all-American family while scheming to get his own egomaniacal way, nobody did it better in the 1930s than radio superstar Sheridan Whiteside, just one reason why Golden-era Broadway fans won’t want to miss The Group Rep’s spiffy revival of Kaufman and Hart’s screwball comedy classic The Man Who Came To Dinner.
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posted in Classic Play, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

DISPOSABLE NECESSITIES

posted on December 15th, 2019 at 7:42 PM by Steven Stanley

Playwright Neil McGowan gives a futuristic spin to the age-old question “What would you do if you could live forever?” in his gender-bending, race-bending, relentlessly clever dark comedy Disposable Necessities, a Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

A CHRISTMAS CAROLE KING

posted on December 14th, 2019 at 1:10 PM by Steven Stanley

No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve had to sit through in your life, you won’t want to miss Troubadour Theater Company’s jukebox-musical extravaganza A Christmas Carole King because (as any L.A. theater fan will tell you) when the Troubies do a holiday show, it’s by definition the most must-see of must-sees.
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posted in Musical Spoof, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

WE THREE SISTERS

posted on December 13th, 2019 at 12:38 PM by Steven Stanley

Anton Chekhov’s Olga, Masha, and Irina return to life as squabbling 21-century siblings in Mina Bloom and Leland Frankel’s absorbing song cycle We Three Sisters, a Method & Madness Theatre Co. gem playing now through Sunday at Thymele Arts.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Revue, Theater Review, WOW!

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