WAITING IN THE WINGS

posted on August 3rd, 2026 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Dames don’t get any grander than the grandes dames taking centerstage at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Waiting In The Wings, Noël Coward’s charming 1960 salute to actresses of a certain age who’ve still got it in them to hold an audience spellbound.
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posted in Comedy, Now Playing, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

HOW HIGH THE MOON

posted on August 2nd, 2026 at 3:39 PM by Steven Stanley


If you think the 1950s were all The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver, then you haven’t met the the Butlers and Thompsons of Van Nuys, whose hornet’s nest of secrets and lies come to light over the course of an explosively entertaining Fourth Of July weekend in Barbara Nell Beery’s How High The Moon.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE FULL MONTY

posted on July 31st, 2026 at 11:11 AM by Steven Stanley


The sextet of laid-off upstate New York factory workers with plans to offer Buffalo gals a night they’ll never forget are at it again, but this time round they’re doing it in the round in The Nocturne Theatre’s inventively staged revival of Terrence McNally and David Yazbek’s 2000 Broadway hit musical The Full Monty.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

PROOF

posted on July 28th, 2026 at 9:40 AM by Steven Stanley

Ed Begley Jr has earned a whopping Emmy nominations in his illustrious career, but it’s Heyden Begley who commands the El Portal Theatre stage as the brilliant but emotionally fragile daughter of a mathematical genius gone mad in David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Proof.
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CLOWN SH*T

posted on July 27th, 2026 at 12:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Absurdist theater meets romantic comedy meets a meditation on life and death and what comes in-between in Clown Sh*t, Hope Lauren’s exhilarating, thought-provoking roller coaster ride of a World Premiere two-hander.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

APPLAUSE

posted on July 25th, 2026 at 5:35 PM by Steven Stanley

Leslie Stevens and Savannah Mortenson deliver matching star turns as Margo Channing and Eve Harrington in the Group Rep’s Summer of 2026 revival of Applause, but the stage adaptation of the Hollywood classic All About Eve pales in comparison to its fellow 1970s Best Musical Tony winners Company, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, and Sweeney Todd.
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F**KING STRANGERS

posted on July 22nd, 2026 at 4:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Erik Patterson, L.A.’s master of “I didn’t see that coming” plot twists, is back at Echo Theater with his sexiest and most provocative play in years, the twisty-turny, edge-of-your-seat, and very sexy F**king Strangers.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL

posted on July 21st, 2026 at 12:30 PM by Steven Stanley


I dare you not to feel the urge to kick off your Sunday shoes and cut footloose to the 1980s hits and new-for-Broadway tunes featured in Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s crowd-pleasing revival of Broadway’s Footloose the Musical, the most irresistibly finger-snapping, toe-tapping show in town.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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