CYMBELINE
posted on October 26th, 2025 at 7:15 PM by Steven Stanley
Cymbeline may seem an unlikely title for a Western a la Gunsmoke, Bonanza, or The Rifleman, but William Shakespeare and the American West prove an inspired mix in Antaeus Theatre Company’s 2025-26 season opener.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, The Antaeus Company, William Shakespeare
posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!
ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME
posted on October 25th, 2025 at 3:06 PM by Steven StanleyA heaping helping of music video-style dance numbers and over twenty of Britney Spears’ Greatest Hits go a long way towards keeping the audience at Jaxx Theatricals entertained for two and a half hours, but minus multi-million-dollar Broadway production values, Once Upon A One More Time’s book-related shortcomings are harder to ignore in its AEA Showcase Los Angeles Premiere.
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Tags: Britney Spears, Jon Hartmere, Los Angeles Theater Review
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
posted on October 20th, 2025 at 4:02 PM by Steven Stanley
Unique doesn’t begin to describe the out-of-the-ordinary theatrical experience that is Julia Masli’s weird and wonderful, almost entirely improvised Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, a Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Touring Production now wowing audiences at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Pasadena Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
posted in National Tour, Pasadena, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!
HELLO, DOLLY!
posted on October 19th, 2025 at 10:37 AM by Steven Stanley
Tami Tappan Damiano lights up the Musical Theatre West stage like nobody’s business as the one-and-only Dolly Levi in the record-breaking 10-Tony-Award-winning Best Musical of 1964, Hello, Dolly!, not only one of Broadway’s Golden Era’s greatest but one of MTW’s most spectacular productions in years.
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Tags: Jerry Herman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Michael Stewart, Musical Theatre West
posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!
PARANORMAL INSIDE
posted on October 14th, 2025 at 10:02 AM by Steven Stanley
Ghostbusting duo Max and Delia are back for more creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky thrills in Paranormal Inside, Prince Gomolivas’s just-in-time-for-Halloween follow-up to his 2022 East West Players hit The Brothers Paranormal.
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Tags: East West Players, Los Angeles Theater Review, Prince Gomolvilas
posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Thriller, World Premiere, WOW!
HAIRSPRAY
posted on October 12th, 2025 at 10:48 AM by Steven Stanley
5-Star Theatricals concludes its 2025 season with an irresistibly entertaining revival of the 2002 Broadway smash Hairspray, directed by none other than the show’s original Tracy Turnblad, Best Lead Actress Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur herself.
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Tags: 5-Star Theatricals, Marc Shaiman, Mark O'Donnell, Scott Wittman, Thomas Meehan, Ventura County Theater Review
posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!
anthropolgy
posted on October 11th, 2025 at 10:28 AM by Steven Stanley
What if an algorithm could bring back someone you’d lost, or a near-perfect facsimile of that person? What if that algorithm could then investigate their disappearance and come up with answers even the police couldn’t find? This is the heady premise of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, the latest slam dunk for Rogue Machine Theatre.
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Tags: Lauren Gunderson, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre
posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
posted on October 8th, 2025 at 12:52 PM by Steven Stanley
Boston Court Pasadena revitalizes Tennessee Williams’s last Broadway success with artistic director Jessica Kubzansky’s excitingly cast and powerfully performed The Night Of The Iguana.
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Tags: Boston Court Pasadena, Los Angeles Theater Review, Tennessee Williams
posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!
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