HELL MOUTH

posted on April 19th, 2026 at 6:57 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s some fine work being done on the Road Theatre stage, but unless you’re an art connoisseur, you’re likely to find the company’s latest World Premiere, Tom Jacobson’s Hell Mouth, too intellectual and esoteric to rank among the prolific playwright’s best.
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“Master Harold”…and the boys

posted on April 18th, 2026 at 2:00 PM by Steven Stanley

The miscasting of 31-year-old Ben Beatty as the teenage title character of Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the boys derails the Geffen Playhouse production of the South African writer’s most celebrated play in ways that even the magnificent John Kani can’t overcome.
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CLARA VS. INFINITY

posted on April 14th, 2026 at 11:57 AM by Steven Stanley


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Peter and the Starcatcher. And now Zack Rocklin-Waltch’s Clara vs. Infinity. Plays don’t get any more extraordinary than these.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

MEAN GIRLS

posted on April 13th, 2026 at 3:19 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s taken eight years for Mean Girls to make it from Broadway to La Mirada for its Southern California Regional Premiere, and McCoy Rigby Entertainment has pulled out all the stops to deliver not only a fabulously directed, choreographed, and performed crowd-pleaser but a freshly designed one as well.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

ENGLISH

posted on April 11th, 2026 at 11:04 AM by Steven Stanley


You don’t have to have made a lifetime career out of teaching English to speakers of other languages as I have to be blown away by the Broadway production of Sanaz Toossi’s extraordinary Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, now paying a must-see visit to The Wallis in Beverly Hills.

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REEFER MADNESS

posted on April 11th, 2026 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley


Women cry for it, men die for it, and the audience goes wild for it in Wisteria Theater Company’s wickedly entertaining take on Reefer Madness The Musical, Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney’s tuneful stage adaptation of what is surely one of the worst movies ever made.
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SOMEBODY TO LOVE

posted on April 7th, 2026 at 5:19 PM by Steven Stanley


Four college besties set off on a decades-long journey through life at the Rubicon Theatre in Somebody To Love, a crowd-pleasing World Premiere jukebox musical that with some script tweaking could have legs on the regional theater circuit.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, World Premiere, WOW!

THE MESSENGER

posted on April 6th, 2026 at 9:55 AM by Steven Stanley

Real-life Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor’s life is interwoven with those of three fictional women created by playwright Jenny Connell Davis in The Messenger, an impressively acted and staged Chance Theater production best suited to those who don’t mind being reminded how much hate there is in the world.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review

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