AMADEUS

posted on February 17th, 2026 at 12:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays and West End/Bridgerton breakout star Sam Clemmett burn up the stage in what may well be the most sumptuous production in Pasadena Playhouse history in Darko Tresnjak’s stunning take on Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

MAN OF LA MANCHA

posted on February 16th, 2026 at 1:30 PM by Steven Stanley


Career-best performances by Richard Bermudez and Monika Peña are just two of the reasons Musical Theatre West’s spectacular 60th-anniversary revival of the 1966 Best Musical Tony winner is a must-see.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

INCITATION TO THE DANCE

posted on February 16th, 2026 at 1:28 PM by Steven Stanley

An intriguing premise—sultry queer Millennial insinuates himself into the lives of a couple of gay married Boomers—falls flat in Theatre West’s overlong, overwrought, credibility-defying World Premiere melodrama Incitation to the Dance.
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posted in Los Angeles, Play With Dance, Theater Review, World Premiere

SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA

posted on February 14th, 2026 at 4:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Haunted house stories can be both thrilling and entertaining. There is, unfortunately, little fun to be had inside the Beacon Hill apartment occupied by blocked, depressed writer Sally in the present day and in the 1950s by her more celebrated (albeit equally depressed) 20th-century counterpart in Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia, Beth Hyland’s downer of a World Premiere at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.

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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

RIGHTEOUS AMONG US

posted on February 10th, 2026 at 11:48 AM by Steven Stanley

Sometimes it pays to stick around for Act Two, which is why I urge you to resist the temptation to exit Little Fish Theatre after Righteous Among Us’s talky, overpadded first act because if you do, you’ll be richly rewarded when Amy Tofte’s tale of Holocaust heroism both real and invented takes dramatic, compelling flight.
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THE COTTAGE

posted on February 9th, 2026 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley


Noel Coward meets Oscar Wilde meets Hollywood screwball masters Howard Hawks and Preston Surgis in the 1920s English countryside in Sandy Rustin’s The Cottage, a guaranteed laugh-getter from Torrance Theatre Company.
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posted in Comedy, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

THE TYPIST

posted on February 4th, 2026 at 1:13 PM by Steven Stanley


A jaded novelist and the cockeyed optimist he hires to type his latest opus try hard not to fall hard for each other in 1961 Greenwich Village in Shem Bitterman’s edgy and entertaining World Premiere two-hander The Typist, now playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

SWEENEY TODD

posted on February 2nd, 2026 at 1:35 PM by Steven Stanley


Leave it to La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment to deliver a Sweeney Todd so spectacular and innovative, it’s not hyperbole to call it Broadway-caliber nor to imagine its two sensational leads winning Tony awards for their star turns as The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and his partner in murder, mayhem, and meat pies.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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