INTO THE WOODS

posted on August 30th, 2025 at 3:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Wisteria Theater Company reimagines Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods as seen through the eyes of a child and the result is a production so sparklingly new, I felt almost as if I were experiencing the Broadway musical classic, one I’ve now seen in a whopping 24 productions, for the very first time.
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THE WOOLGATHERER

posted on August 25th, 2025 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley

I’m usually a sucker for a wounded-souls-can’t-help-falling-in-love two-hander, but based on the guest production now playing at the Victory Theatre Center, William Mastrosimone’s The Woolgatherer would seem to be the exception to that rule.
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SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

posted on August 23rd, 2025 at 10:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Even a minor Tennessee Williams play like Suddenly Last Summer deserves far better than the misbegotten revival the 1958 one-act is being given at North Hollywood’s Whitmore-Lindley Theatre.

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DRACULA THE MUSICAL

posted on August 22nd, 2025 at 2:21 PM by Steven Stanley


Vampire fans will find themselves in Transylvania Heaven at The Nocturne Theatre’s stunningly staged in-the-round revival of Dracula The Musical, now thrillifying audiences while treating them to some of the most spectacular vocals in town.
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SHUCKED

posted on August 21st, 2025 at 3:36 PM by Steven Stanley


Corn is king in Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Robert Horn’s Shucked, the most hee-haw-larious musical comedy Broadway has seen in years, and as tuneful and heart-filled and downright original as a feel-good musical can get.
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THE SEAGULL: MALIBU

posted on August 18th, 2025 at 4:52 PM by Steven Stanley


Ellen Geer updates Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull from 1890s tsarist Russia to Malibu, California during the “It’s All About Me” 1970s, and the exhilarating result is The Seagull: Malibu, a romantic dramedy that’s both Chekhovian and Southern Californian, and a Summer Of 2025 treat no matter how you feel about Chekhov.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ANTIGONE

posted on August 17th, 2025 at 12:40 PM by Steven Stanley


Neil LaBute puts a 21st-century spin on French playwright Jean Anouilh’s 1944 adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, itself a thinly veiled attack on the Nazi-allied Vichy government that controlled Paris during World War II, in the compelling, thought-provoking latest from City Garage.
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& JULIET

posted on August 16th, 2025 at 4:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Romeo’s teenage bride gets a new lease on life in the West End-to-Broadway smash & Juliet, quite possibly the most hit-packed musical in Broadway history and one that now tops my list of favorite shows of the past ten years right up there with The Prom, Come From Away, and Dear Evan Hansen.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

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