MÉNAGE À QUATRE

posted on July 27th, 2025 at 5:54 PM by Steven Stanley


What would you do if you found out that your spouse and your longtime best friend were having an affair? What if so happened that your spouse’s illicit lover was her own bff as well? These questions and more are posed and answered to terrifically entertaining effect in Peter Lefcourt’s Ménage À Quatre, the prolific L.A. playwright’s best new comedy since 2015’s Café Society.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

posted on July 26th, 2025 at 1:05 PM by Steven Stanley


Highlands Theatre follows last summer’s rip-roaring revival of The Music Man with another guaranteed crowd-pleaser for adults and kids of any age, the international musical smash Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

posted on July 21st, 2025 at 5:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Beatrice and Benedick are once again at it tooth and nail, but this time round she’s wearing a hoopskirt and he’s sporting a Civil War-era Army uniform as director Ellen Geer transposes the Shakespeare comedy classic from 16th-century Italy to 1860s Virginia while sprinkling in one I Love Lucy-inspired physical comedy bit after another.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

SPRING AWAKENING

posted on July 21st, 2025 at 11:14 AM by Steven Stanley


Brilliantly innovative direction, stunningly original choreography, a baker’s dozen revelatory performances, and a Broadway-caliber production design guarantee Southland audiences as outstanding a Spring Awakening as any musical theater lover could ever hope to see.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

posted on July 21st, 2025 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley

A pair of magnetic, gorgeously sung lead performances bring out the best in Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman’s The Bridges of Madison County. The makeshift production design it’s been given by Chromolume Theatre Company and some occasionally clunky staging not so much.

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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review

FROZEN

posted on July 15th, 2025 at 9:59 AM by Steven Stanley

Five fabulous lead performances elevate 5-Star Theatrical’s big-cast production of Disney’s Frozen, though probably not enough to be worth shelling out big bucks for a ticket given its rather lackluster production design and hundreds of chatty, fidgety preschool audience members not old enough to sit still for two hours.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County

BUDDY – THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY

posted on July 13th, 2025 at 10:05 AM by Steven Stanley


Buddy Holly may have left this earth some six-and-a-half decades ago on “the day the music died”, but the 1950s rock and roll legend lives on in Long Beach in the person of dazzling quadruple-threat phenom Will Riddle in Musical Theatre West’s rousing revival of musical/tribute concert hybrid that is Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

XANADU

posted on July 12th, 2025 at 4:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Wisteria Theater Company makes it five hits in a row with their zestfully entertaining take on Douglas Carter Beane’s 2005 Broadway treat Xanadu, itself a textbook example of how to turn a movie lemon into multiple Tony-nominated lemonade.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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