MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET: A LIVE MUSICAL RADIO PLAY

posted on November 23rd, 2019 at 11:56 AM by Steven Stanley

Actors Co-op treats audiences to Miracle On 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play, a tuneful, nostalgic, family-friendly alternative to the myriad A Christmas Carols filling local stages this holiday season.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

FOR THE LOYAL

posted on November 23rd, 2019 at 11:50 AM by Steven Stanley

Provocative, edge-of-your-seat, and ripped from today’s headlines, Lee Blessing’s For The Loyal makes its compelling West Coast debut at Sixty-Six Theater Co.
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COMPANY

posted on November 19th, 2019 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 Broadway classic Company proves a fabulous fit for a dozen-and-a-half theater-majoring performers and designers to strut their stuff in the most sumptuously professional a venue any university production could ever hope for, the UC Irvine-adjacent the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Student-Cast Production, Theater Review, WOW!

SALVAGE

posted on November 17th, 2019 at 7:49 PM by Steven Stanley

A chance visit to a run-down, out-of-the-way bar stirs up memories long-ago friendships, unfulfilled dreams, unforgotten grudges, and a woman named Jennifer in Tim Alderson’s Salvage, a World Premiere “play with music” which requires buying into more than one coincidence but offers multiple rewards, not the least of which is getting to hear some of the most haunting, gorgeously sung country music in town.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

KEY LARGO

posted on November 16th, 2019 at 11:45 AM by Steven Stanley

The Geffen Playhouse reboots a 1948 black-and-white movie classic live in living color in Jeffrey Hatcher and Andy Garcia’s rip-roaring World Premiere stage adaptation of the Bogie-&-Bacall suspense thriller Key Largo, directed with abundant flair by Tony winner Doug Hughes.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

BURIED CHILD

posted on November 14th, 2019 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley

Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the darkest, weirdest, and most twisted black comedy ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, returns to L.A., strikingly staged and stunningly performed at A Noise Within.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

DEFENDERS

posted on November 12th, 2019 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley

A trio of WWII GIs stranded on a storm-tossed island off the north Icelandic coast learn the hard way that it’s not just the Nazis who are out to get them in Cailin Maureen Harrison’s supernatural-tinged action-adventure thriller Defenders, a World Premiere guest production at Hollywood’s Broadwater Blackbox.
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THE GREAT LEAP

posted on November 11th, 2019 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley

Two of L.A.’s premier regional theaters join forces to give Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap as unforgettable a production as Pasadena Playhouse and East West Players have presented in years.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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