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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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Now Playing, WOW!

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, Now Playing, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

JAGGED LITTLE PILL

posted on July 20th, 2026 at 11:55 AM by Steven Stanley


Chance Theater superstar Jocelyn A. Brown delivers yet another dramatic and vocal tour-de-force performance, this time round as a seemingly perfect but secretly drug-addicted suburban housewife, in Chance Theater’s riveting take on Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill.
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posted in Musical, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on July 18th, 2026 at 9:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Punk rock energy ignites the Broadwater Mainstage in Conundrum Theatre Company’s high-octane revival of the international smash American Idiot, easily the rawest, grittiest, and most ear-splitting of the nine productions I’ve now seen of the Green Day musical.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

MEXODUS

posted on July 14th, 2026 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley


New musicals don’t get any more one-of-a-kind than Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson’s supremely inventive, supremely innovative, supremely elucidating and entertaining off-Broadway two-hander Mexodus, now dazzling Pasadena Playhouse audiences direct from its New York run.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

posted on July 13th, 2026 at 12:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Director Larry Raben and choreographer Corey Wright reinvent Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat like it’s never been reinvented before in a Musical Theatre West revival that feels fresh and new and very Gen Z-meets-Gen Alpha.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

IF/THEN

posted on July 13th, 2026 at 9:49 AM by Steven Stanley

The production itself is a mixed bag, but at the very least Chromolume Theatre’s black-box staging of the Broadway musical If/Then gives L.A. audiences the chance to rediscover a show that didn’t deserve to vanish from sight after its National Tour played the Pantages ten years ago.
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