Accent & Performance Coaching for International Actors

posted on August 10th, 2026 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Click here to learn how I help international actors book more English-language roles.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on September 4th, 2026 at 11:52 AM by Steven Stanley

Even last-minute improvised emergency lighting couldn’t dim the opening night excitement at Altadena Music Theatre’s all-around fabulous open-air revival of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors.
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AUGUST WILSON’S MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

posted on September 1st, 2026 at 10:53 AM by Steven Stanley

My mind may have wandered during the second half of Act One of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but when all is said and done, it’s a pretty darn spectacular season opener for A Noise Within.
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PERICLES

posted on August 30th, 2026 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Ten strangers seeking refuge from a storm in a disaster relief center find much in common with their displaced Shakespearean counterparts in Boston Court Pasadena’s thrillingly inventive staging of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation of Pericles.
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CONSCIENCE

posted on August 29th, 2026 at 12:14 PM by Steven Stanley


Decades before lies, chaos, fear, personal attacks, intimidation, and bullying reigned supreme in Washington DC, a senator named Joseph McCarthy set it all in motion by waging war against suspected communists and Senator Margaret Chase Smith in Conscience, Joe DiPietro’s fascinating look back at how much times haven’t changed since 1950.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Now Playing, Theater Review

GREEN CORRIDORS

posted on August 25th, 2026 at 10:23 AM by Steven Stanley

Natalka Vorozhbyt’s Green Corridors, a series of vignettes revolving around four Ukrainian women fleeing their war-torn land, works better as a showcase for City Garage’s unique style and sensibility than as a play for those who prefer more traditional linear realism to existential dreamscape theater.
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ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

posted on August 24th, 2026 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Tests that reveal contaminated water in the local hot springs pose an existential threat to townspeople whose livelihoods depend on tourist dollars in Bart DeLorenzo’s electrifying contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s ahead-of-its-times 1882 shocker Enemy Of The People.
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NEXT TO NORMAL

posted on August 22nd, 2026 at 10:58 AM by Steven Stanley


Next To Normal has arrived at the Hudson Backstage for an all-too-short 4-performance run that more than does justice to the powerful, deeply moving multiple Tony Award winner.
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TREASURE ISLAND

posted on August 18th, 2026 at 3:11 PM by Steven Stanley

Dialog scenes get bogged down in nautical jargon, 18th-century slang, and outdated grammar, much of it unintelligible to 21st-century ears, but whenever action sequences take over, Theatricum Botanicum audiences are treated to the swashbucklingest adventure story ever to unfold under Topanga skies.
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