THE OUTSIDER

posted on June 24th, 2024 at 4:29 PM by Steven Stanley


Things get hilariously out of hand when the seemingly ineffectual lieutenant governor of an unnamed state suddenly finds himself the man in charge in Paul Slade Smith’s The Outsider, a front-runner for the year’s funniest and smartest comedic treat.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

CABARET

posted on June 23rd, 2024 at 10:11 AM by Steven Stanley


Life isn’t just a cabaret, old chum, it’s a downright dazzling circus in The Nocturne Theatre Company’s stunningly reimagined in-the-round revival of the Kander and Ebb masterpiece Cabaret.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on June 22nd, 2024 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley


An audience jam-packed with friends and family greeted the opening night performance of Conundrum Theatre Company’s Legally Blonde with the kind of cheers usually reserved for a Taylor Swift concert, and if the production playing this weekend only at NoHo’s El Portal would not under normal circumstances generate that rhapsodic a reception, an energetic young cast headed by a captivating Paloma Malfavón make it a definite crowd-pleaser.
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HAY FEVER

posted on June 18th, 2024 at 8:52 AM by Steven Stanley


A weekend in the country has rarely proven as delightfully, deliciously madcap as the one L.A. theatergoers can now spend with the ever so eccentric Bliss family in South Pasadena Theatre Workshop’s ever so effervescent revival of Noël Coward’s 1924 comedic gem Hay Fever.
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BLACKBIRD

posted on June 16th, 2024 at 9:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Dakota Wolf and Ron Hastings deliver powerhouse performances as a 20something woman and the decades-older man who had sex with her when she was only 12 in David Harrower’s Blackbird, a harrowing, disturbing, utterly compelling guest production at Anaheim’s Chance Theater.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD

posted on June 14th, 2024 at 11:11 AM by Steven Stanley


A teenage Charlie Brown confronts life’s mysteries and challenges in Bert V. Royal’s, hilarious, thought-provoking, ultimately transformative Dog Sees God: Confessions Of A Teenage Blockhead, now getting a fabulous 19th-anniversary revival at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre.
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE

posted on June 13th, 2024 at 5:47 PM by Steven Stanley


America’s favorite nanny is back in business as triple-threat dynamo Rob McClure lights up the Pantages in his Tony-nominated performance in Mrs. Doubtfire, one of the most crowd-pleasing, feel-good, and family-friendly Broadway musicals in years.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY

posted on June 11th, 2024 at 8:59 AM by Steven Stanley


Torrance Theatre Company closes its 2023-24 season with the most impeccably cast, directed, performed, and designed of the three productions I’ve seen of Terrence McNally’s backstage comedic gem It’s Only A Play.
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posted in Comedy, South Bay, Theater Review, WOW!

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