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


You know me as L.A.’s most prolific theater reviewer, but did you also know that I’ve spent my entire professional career teaching English as a Second Language?  Continue reading to see how I have segued from the university classroom into online coaching.
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THE BED TRICK

posted on September 27th, 2026 at 3:01 PM by Steven Stanley


HBO’s The Sex Life Of College Girls meets William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well in Chance Theater’s California Premiere of Keiko Green’s overlong but devilishly clever The Bed Trick.
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posted in Comedy, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

KAIJU

posted on September 26th, 2026 at 1:02 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Dan Caffrey may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew in Kaiju, his satirical mashup of Godzilla-style creature features and pretentions/clueless post-performance talkbacks, but I so enjoyed the World Premiere comedy now playing at the Road Theatre on Magnolia that I can’t really complain.
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FRANKENSTEIN: RESURRECTION

posted on September 25th, 2026 at 12:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Gothic horror isn’t really my cup of tea, but if it’s among your favorite theatrical genres, you just might find The Nocturne Theatre’s World Premiere Gothic horror musical Frankenstein: Resurrected right up your dark alley.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

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


A pair of single fathers from mirror-opposite backgrounds bond against all odds over parenthood, financial challenges, and a shared “specific kind of sadness” in Samuel D. Hunter’s deeply moving two-hander, A Case For The Existence Of God, the fifth of Hunter’s 15 “Idaho Plays” to get a pitch-perfect Los Angeles Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on September 21st, 2026 at 1:27 PM by Steven Stanley


Understudy Matthew Taylor Smith got shot out of a cannon and stuck a show-stopping landing as Seymour Krelborn at the post-Opening Night matinee of La Mirada Theatre’s absolutely sensational big-stage revival of the cult classic to end all cult classics, Little Shop Of Horrors.
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

posted on September 21st, 2026 at 9:35 AM by Steven Stanley


Teen con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. is back in action and once again scamming his way across the country in the Colony Theatre’s exuberant, crowd-pleasing revival of the 2011 Broadway musical based on Steven Spielberg’s popular 2002 biopic.
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MARISOL

posted on September 19th, 2026 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley

I can’t fault the talent that’s gone into bringing Open Fist Theatre’s revival of José Rivera’s Obie-winning Marisol to nightmarish life, but I found the Puerto Rican playwright’s vision of a dystopian New York City under siege almost as torturous to sit through as the unrelenting, apocalyptic horrors its titular heroine has to endure in scene after excruciating scene.
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THE VISIT

posted on September 15th, 2026 at 12:57 PM by Steven Stanley


How far would you go if someone offered you an outrageous sum of money on one condition? And if you were willing to go that far, how would you rationalize your decision to do the unthinkable? These are the questions at the heart of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, now being revived at the Pasadena Playhouse in a production so spectacular, you’d think you were seeing it on Broadway.
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