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Monday, November 24, 2014

Harry Groener — Dancing Through Life, From Will Parker to Noël Coward — not to mention Buffy by Rob Stevens

Actor/singer/dancer/three-time Tony Award nominee Harry Groener has spent most of his life dancing on stage, but it is his one-year stint as a villain in a recurring role on a cult TV show t…

SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 11:50PM
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Kritzerland Salutes Jerry Herman by Rob Stevens

Karen Morrow, David Engel, Valerie Perri, Damon Kirsche and more sing Herman's show tunes.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:39PM
Monday, November 3, 2014

Big Fish makes West Coast Premiere at Long Beach's Musical Theatre West by Rob Stevens

Andrew Lippa's score is the show's strongest asset.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 01:30AM
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

“Julie Budd – They Wrote the Songs” by Rob Stevens

Julie Budd’s first album in nearly a decade would be cause for celebration if just for the fact that it’s her first CD in nearly a decade. But there are so many more reasons to celebrate…

SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 03:58PM

Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking in Laguna Beach. by Rob Stevens

Didion's prose is vibrantly brought to life by an incandescent Linda Purl.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 01:43PM
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Marital strife in The Dance of Death at A Noise Within by Rob Stevens

An unhappily married couple play games with the man who introduced them in Conor McPherson's translation of the Strindberg play.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:23PM
Monday, October 20, 2014

Kander & Ebb’s And the World Goes Round finally gets the 2 CD set it deserves by Rob Stevens

  John Kander and Fred Ebb have written over a dozen Broadway musicals, songs for several movie musicals as well as specialty material for their number one song stylist Liza Minnelli. I…

SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 07:31PM

If/Then – A Great New Broadway Score that challenges the mind and treats the ear by Rob Stevens

  Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s 2009 rock musical Next to Normal received 11 Tony Award nominations, winning three-Best Score, Best Orchestrations and Best Actress for Alice Ripley. I…

SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 06:17PM
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Actors Co-Op offers a half-baked and very dry production of The Diviners. by Rob Stevens

A pedestrian production reveals the flaws and mediocrity of Jim Leonard, Jr.'s Depression era play about misplaced faith.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 10:10PM

Theatrical S&M delivered at a fever pitch in Venus In Fur at SCR. by Rob Stevens

Great production of a really fun show.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 10:07PM
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Ed Dixon’s Life in the Theatre—Beaten to death by chocolate cake and being copied by Barbra Streisand by Rob Stevens

Ed Dixon has enjoyed a long career as a Broadway actor, starting with his debut in No, No Nanette in 1971. He has toured the country in musicals and appeared in many of the country’s top r…

SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 12:38AM
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

A very funny Glorious! at ICT in Long Beach. by Rob Stevens

Eileen Barnett is truly glorious as the vocally challenged but determined opera diva Florence Foster Jenkins.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:00AM
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Richard Hochberg – A Not So Wasted Life Watching Horror Films by Rob Stevens

  Richard Hochberg has had a long and varied career in the theatre. As an actor he appeared in The Heidi Chronicles, Little Shop of Horrors, Fiddler on the Roof, End of the World Party …

SOURCE: Grace Notes Subscription at 08:21PM
Monday, October 6, 2014

Jason, Norman, Carrie, Freddy and Jamie Lee are dying to be in Scary Musical The Musical. by Rob Stevens

Writer Richard Hochberg has done his homework, probably by watching every horror film ever made

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 08:15PM

Ann Noble gives a devastating performance in Albee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? by Rob Stevens

This Ken Sawyer directed production at the Los Angeles LGBT Center will leave you breathless.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 08:13PM
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Director Michael Arden and Deaf West Theatre create theatrical magic with Spring Awakening. by Rob Stevens

An evening of sobering drama and incandescent enchantment is the result of using a combination of deaf and hearing actors to sing and tell the story.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:34PM
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Trying is a great history lesson at ICT in Long Beach. by Rob Stevens

Playwright Joanna McClelland Glass puts a year of her own life on stage to present a fascinating look at Judge Francis Biddle and his storied career.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:11PM

Psyche: A Modern Rock Opera is a feast for the eyes but hard on the ears. by Rob Stevens

Cindy Shapiro's book, music and lyrics may be mundane but Michael Matthews' staging is never boring in this tale of Psyche, the original princess, and Eros, the God of Love.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:07PM
Thursday, July 17, 2014

We Will Rock You rocks the Ahmanson Theatre by Rob Stevens

If ever a jukebox musical should have just been done straight out as a rock concert, it's this Queen infused mess.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 04:27PM
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Ghost-The Musical, a really bad idea. by Rob Stevens

With all the projections and video effects and the lackluster score, the audience would be better off watching the original film.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 10:24PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Sandy Bainum performs an all Ira Gershwin cabaret act at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal. by Rob Stevens

Sandy Bainum shower her vocal versatility as she went from jazzy to operatic to Broadway in her new show.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 01:03PM

The Antaeus Company really shakes up the theatre with The Curse of Oedipus. by Rob Stevens

The Sensurround effect is just one of the many highlights in this stellar mounting of the Greek tragedy.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:54PM
Saturday, June 21, 2014

The Werewolves of Hollywood Blvd. is a howling success at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. by Rob Stevens

Werewolves sing, dance, howl and keep tongue planted firmly in cheek in this Damnable Rock Musical.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:36AM
Monday, June 16, 2014

Musical Theatre Guild presents staged concert of City of Angels by Rob Stevens

A great cast headed by Stan Chandler and Kevin Symons compensates for the lack of a set.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:27PM

Good People Theater Company presents The Fantasticks at the Hollywood Fringe Festival by Rob Stevens

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's long running musical allegory is a simple tale of love simply told with many songs that are now standards.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:30PM
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Songs for a New World vibrantly brought to life at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. by Rob Stevens

A Cuppa Tea Theatre Company makes an auspicious debut with the Jason Robert Brown song cycle.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:01PM
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Blythe Danner and Scott Foley take up residence in The Country House. by Rob Stevens

Donald Margulies' new play premiering at the Geffen Playhouse is in need of a major renovation.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:22PM
Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Last Confession details the murder of Pope John Paul I and the resulting coverup. by Rob Stevens

David Suchet heads a stellar cast in Roger Crane's play about Vatican politics and the struggles within the Catholic Church.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 06:05PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Linda Eder and Constantine Maroulis pay tribute to Broadway on the Night After the Tonys by Rob Stevens

Chris Isaacson's third annual concert delivered the hits from past Broadway shows in the intimate confines of the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in the Hollywood hills.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 04:28PM
Monday, June 9, 2014

Meet & Greet provides the laughs as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival by Rob Stevens

Four very different actresses find themselves competing for a role in a casting Meet & Greet from hell.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 05:00PM

Gender Bending The Importance of Being Earnest in the Hollywood Fringe Festival by Rob Stevens

Queer Classics changes the gender of Oscar Wilde's Cecily and Gwendolen and presents a speed reading version of the classic comedy in 90 laugh filled minutes.

SOURCE: Haines His Way at 12:19PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime