WINK
Saturday, December 29th, 2018Casting a non-binary actor as a non-binary protagonist merits snaps, but the two-hour suspension of disbelief required of an audience by Neil Koenigsberg’s Wink sinks whatever good intentions may have prompted its playwright to put fingertips to keyboard.
(read more)
SISTERS THREE
Friday, December 21st, 2018A pair of quirky contemporary adult siblings bearing more than a passing resemblance to Anne and Emily Brontë generate dramatic sparks aplenty in Jami Brandli’s Sisters Three, that is until Charlotte shows up near the end and the Inkwell Theater World Premiere turns from a mostly quite absorbing two-hander to a solo performance that goes off the deep end … way off.
(read more)
SCISSORHANDS
Sunday, December 16th, 2018
The magic and wonder and humor and heart of a Tim Burton movie classic come to haunting musical life as Rockwell Table + Stage and The Fuse Project debut Scissorhands, the ideal holiday alternative for those who prefer their Christmas season entertainment with an edge.
(read more)
WHOLE FOODS: THE MUSICAL
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018If you love musicals and you love comedy but you’ve got less than an hour to spare on the fourth Tuesday of every month, Upright Citizens Brigade on Sunset is the place to be for UCB’s Quick & Funny Musicals as the monthly series’ latest installment, Whole Foods: The Musical, made mirthfully, melodically clear.
(read more)
COST OF LIVING
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
The costs of living are high indeed for the four damaged protagonists of Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Cost Of Living, now being given a gut-punchingly powerful West Coast Premiere at the Fountain.
(read more)
REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS
Saturday, November 17th, 2018Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, its past, its present, and the challenges it faces in the future, make for an eye-opening theatrical experience in Casa 0101’s World Premiere docudrama Remembering Boyle Heights.
(read more)
DEATH AND COCKROACHES
Friday, November 16th, 2018
A man-sized cockroach with the body of a gay porn god offers a cock-addicted aspiring TV writer unexpected aid in dealing with his father’s imminent death in Eric Reyes Loo’s raunchy, risk-taking, emotionally rewarding dysfunctional-family dramedy Death And Cockroaches, a Chalk Repertory Theatre World Premiere.
(read more)
BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018Clementine, Maddy, and Antonia are women on the verge of a nervous breakdown in North Orange, New Jersey circa 1960 in Jami Brandli’s BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!). That they’re also Clytemnestra, Medea, and Antigone reincarnated is one reason Brandli’s take on mid-20th-century suburbia works considerably less well than it would if she had stuck to satire. The other is the play’s two-and-a-half-hour running time.
(read more)
Since 2007, Steven Stanley's StageSceneLA.com has spotlighted the best in Southern California theater via reviews, interviews, and its annual StageSceneLA Scenies.
COPYRIGHT 2025 STEVEN STANLEY :: DESIGN BY