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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Tags: Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, Laurence O'Keefe, Los Angeles Theater Review, Open Fist Theatre Company
posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!
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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Tags: John Fazakerley, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!
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.
Tags: Erik Gernand, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Road Theatre Company
posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review
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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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre
posted in Action-Adventure, Hollywood/West Hollywood, National Tour, Now Playing, WOW!
BARE: A POP OPERA
posted on April 14th, 2025 at 7:00 PM by Steven StanleyMouth 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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Tags: Damon Intrabartolo, Jon Hartmere, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mouth Bone Theatre, the Eastwood
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review
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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Tags: Chad Beguelin, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matthew Sklar, Tim Herlihy, Wisteria Theater Company
posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Now Playing, WOW!
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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Tags: David Lindsay-Abaire, InterACT Theatre Company, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Drama, San Fernando Valley, Special Event, WOW!
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
posted on April 13th, 2025 at 10:48 AM by Steven Stanley
The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Nocturne Theatre
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!