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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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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