THE WINTER’S TALE

posted on April 25th, 2025 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley


If you’ve ever wished Shakespearean English weren’t so darned hard to understand (I certainly have), then Tracy Young’s modern verse translation of The Winter’s Tale, the sparklingly performed latest from Skylight Theatre Company, is the Shakespeare production for you and for me.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL EXTENSION

posted on April 21st, 2025 at 10:50 AM by Steven Stanley


Branden Lee Roth puts his own engaging stamp on the title role of  Open Fist Theatre Company’s Bat Boy: The Musical, his fortuitous arrival enabling the wild, weird, and wacky L.A.-born, off-Broadway-bred crowd-pleaser to extend its run at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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CORKTOWN ’39

posted on April 20th, 2025 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Tensions reach a breaking point when an Irish-American family finds itself knee-deep in an assassination plot in John Fazakerley’s slow-boiling thriller Corktown ‘39, another sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Company World Premiere.
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THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS

posted on April 19th, 2025 at 12:46 PM by Steven Stanley


All hell breaks loose in an Indiana town when a swastika is found spray-painted on a classroom bulletin board celebrating the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Erik Gernand’s The Totality Of All Things, a discussion-provoking, expectations-defying, Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

posted on April 17th, 2025 at 4:58 PM by Steven Stanley


I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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BARE: A POP OPERA

posted on April 14th, 2025 at 7:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Mouth Bone Theatre’s revival of Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere’s Bare: A Pop Opera works better as a talent showcase for its cast of young musical theater performers than it does as a professional production of a show that’s beginning to show its age.
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THE WEDDING SINGER

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 4:18 PM by Steven Stanley


There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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RABBIT HOLE

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Kudos to director Cate Caplin and an all-around superb Los Angeles-based cast for delivering so powerful a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, you’d have sworn you were watching a fully-staged production had it not been for the scripts which cast members had in hand in the latest entry in the Interact Theatre Company reading series held monthly at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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