Rob Stevens – Haines His Way In 1971, singer Frank Sinatra was seriously considering retirement. He had survived Elvis and the rock and roll 1950s. He had survived the Beatles and the British Invasion of the 1960s. But the Hard Rock of the early 1970s have him stymied. He has gathered a group of his … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Each year there are dozens of solo performance shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Most are the type where the writer/actor bemoans the trials and tribulations of their life thus far. I prefer a solo show that looks at a historical figure, either at a crisis point in … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The flyer for Josiah Blunt’s one-person play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival describes the title Flayed as a verb: to have your skin peeled from your corpse or carcass. In the play, young Joshua Marsh, a recent graduate from a pastor’s college in conservative Virginia, is about to give … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Prince Harry Live! at Coachella reviewed by Rob Stevens – This is precisely the kind of show Fringe was created for. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Starmites reviewed by Rob Stevens – In what I think may be the LA-area premiere, Open Fist Theatre Company in Atwater is currently presenting a lively production that really rocks the intimate space. Read more… Socks Whitmore – Stage Raw In 2023, the demand for nostalgia is higher than … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The Lady’s Not For Burning reviewed by Rob Stevens – WorldStage Theatre & Co. is presenting a CliffsNotes version of the play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The nearly 90-minute version of the three-act verse play is said to be “reimagined for a post-Covid world” but that reimagining … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way American Whore Story reviewed by Rob Stevens – Grossman was charming, funny, touching and so relatable as she shared stories from her life and career to the standing room only opening night audience. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The Revolutionists reviewed by Rob Stevens – The Revolutionists is a feminist history lesson and a laugh riot and well worth seeing. Read more… Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Four women also are featured in “The Revolutionists” at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, by the prolific Lauren Gunderson (whose … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way William Shakespeare died in 1616. At that time, there really were no definitive printed versions of any of his three dozen plays. Two of Shakespeare’s fellow King’s Men players gathered and printed what has become known as The First Folio in 1623. If they had not done so at … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Nearly 25 years after the event, the story of Matthew Shepard still resonates like peroxide on an open cut, like fingernails on a blackboard, like a razor slashing a wrist, exposing veins and nerve endings. Read more…