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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posted in Drama, South Bay, Theater Review, World Premiere

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!

ONCE

posted on February 2nd, 2026 at 9:52 AM by Steven Stanley


Chance Theater opens their 27th season with a gorgeously staged and performed production of the 2012 Broadway smash Once, easily one of the most charming and heartstrings-tugging musicals of the past 27 years.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CIRCLE

posted on February 2nd, 2026 at 9:47 AM by Steven Stanley

Issues of familia, cultura, and política come to a head over the course of one tumultuous weekend in Stacey Martino Romero’s powerful if overlong World Premiere dramedy The Circle, now playing at the Greenway Court Theatre.

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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

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