DEATH OF A SALESMAN

posted on March 30th, 2026 at 3:21 PM by Steven Stanley

Geoff Elliott’s magnificent star turn as Willy Loman, nearly a dozen impeccable supporting performances, and inspired direction and design by an all-star A Noise Within team add up to as brilliant a revival of Death Of A Salesman as any Arthur Miller aficionado could ever hope to see.

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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Revival Of A 20th-Century Play, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on March 28th, 2026 at 5:13 PM by Steven Stanley

A charismatic Sean Yves Lessard as best-selling novelist Jamie Wellerstein cannot overcome a miscast “Shiksa Goddess,” lackluster direction, and poor sound mixing in Chalomot Productions’ well-intentioned but largely unsuccessful revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Hudson Backstage.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, Two-Hander

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT

posted on March 26th, 2026 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley


Monty Python’s Spamalot is back, and the Hollywood Pantages has got it, guaranteeing L.A. audiences not only the wildest, wackiest, and winningest of musical comedy rides but a spectacular new scenic design and even more flashy dancing than the 2005 Broadway original.
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KIM’S CONVENIENCE

posted on March 25th, 2026 at 3:49 PM by Steven Stanley


As hard as I fell for Kim’s Convenience when I streamed the Canadian sitcom on Netflix a couple of years back, I was unprepared for how head over heels I would be for its inspiration, Ins Choi’s 2011 feel-amazing stage gem now paying a visit to the Ahmanson.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

posted on March 22nd, 2026 at 1:15 PM by Steven Stanley


Six terrific actresses strut their comedic stuff as a sextet of Louisiana women whose delicate exteriors hide tough-as-steel cores in the Group Rep’s season-opening crowd-pleaser, Robert Harling’s Southern-fried charmer Steel Magnolias.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

GUILTY PLEASURES

posted on March 17th, 2026 at 4:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Noël Coward meets Neil Simon in Ken Levine’s sexy new romcom romp Guilty Pleasures, now getting a laugh-packed West Coast Premiere at the LAX-adjacent Kentwood Players.
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FAIRVIEW

posted on March 16th, 2026 at 5:20 PM by Steven Stanley

It’s taken eight years for Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview to make it from New York to L.A., and though I have mixed feelings about her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the production Rogue Machine Theatre has mounted of it could not be more sensationally acted, directed, or designed.
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

posted on March 15th, 2026 at 8:38 AM by Steven Stanley


The Nocturne Theatre reinvents Jesus Christ Superstar to thrilling effect by re-situating the famed rock opera in a dystopian version of the world we live in today, and that’s only the beginning.

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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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