A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a quarter-century tradition at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, is back for 2021, trimmed to ninety minutes and jam-packed with physical comedy and song performed by one of the finest Theatricum casts ever, most of them performing in it for the very first time.
(read more)
TAMING THE LION
Monday, July 12th, 2021
1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
(read more)
AN OCTOROON
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
(read more)
TELL HIM IT’S JACKIE
Sunday, May 9th, 2021
Kait Haire makes for an incandescent, captivating Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s absorbing, elucidating Tell Him It’s Jackie, now playing live under the stars at the aptly named Dugan’s Backyard Playhouse in Woodland Hills.
(read more)
VIRTUAL PRODUCTION REVIEWS
Monday, April 12th, 2021URINETOWN THE (VIRTUAL) MUSICAL
MSD Productions
July 30, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10223350838252834
SWEAT
Chance Theater in association with Morgan-Wixson Theatre
June 24, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10223147561731048
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
International City Theatre
June 5, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10223022841733126
REYKJAVIK
The Road Theatre Company
May 14, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222887688954391
ZERO HOUR
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
May 11, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222862867733876
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Chance Theater
May 7, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222831241783247
I DO! I DO!
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
May 2, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222802637068147
SLOW FOOD
International City Theatre
April 29, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222788400392239
UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAYS OF LOS ANGELES
Echo Theater Company
April 2, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222605649743587
THIS BITTER EARTH
The Road Theatre Company
March 26, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222559039338356
PRIVATE LIVES
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
March 16, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222492705880061
SPRING AWAKENING
MSG Productions
February 26, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222366094394853
DADDY LONG LEGS
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
February 20, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222328792582331
ART
International City Theatre
February 17, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222305835248412
FRANKENSTEIN THE MUSICAL
GCT Theatricals
February 12, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10222267037558494
SANTASIA
December 24, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10221847669354551
CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre
December 8, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10221731935181269
CHESS THE MUSICAL
GCT Theatricals
September 26, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/steven.stanley1/posts/10221234905555839
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Monday, March 9th, 2020
There’s probably no more surefire musical-comedy crowd-pleaser than Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors, proof positive of which can be found in Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s pitch-perfect revival of the 1982 cult classic.
(read more)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
A Noise Within makes theatrical magic for audiences of all ages in their absolutely captivating revival of Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’s 1933 Broadway adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
(read more)
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Saturday, March 7th, 2020Still going strong in its 98th season, Whittier Community Theater entertains loyal locals with a suspenseful, somewhat slow-paced, but mostly fine production of Agatha Christie’s mystery classic And Then There Were None.
(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 2026 STEVEN STANLEY :: DESIGN BY