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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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

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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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

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!

THE ALTRUISTS

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

A talented bunch of recent AAMDA grads have joined creative forces at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival to bring audiences The Altruists, Nicky Silver’s outrageously funny skewering of liberal causes gone berserk.
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DURAN DURANTONY & CLEOPATRA

posted on June 8th, 2024 at 10:43 AM by Steven Stanley


William Shakespeare meets The Troubies meet one of the 1980s’ most iconic rock bands in Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra, the latest musical-spoofy treat from Troubadour Theater Company “in cahoots with” the Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

JELLY’S LAST JAM

posted on June 4th, 2024 at 9:38 AM by Steven Stanley


A year after its record-breaking Sondheim Celebration, Pasadena Playhouse gives Jelly Roll’s Jam as spectacularly staged and phenomenally performed a 33rd-anniversary revival as any lover of rarely produced musicals could wish for.
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DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID

posted on June 2nd, 2024 at 10:01 AM by Steven Stanley


Get ready to stand up and cheer director Glenn Casale’s ingeniously reconceived, spectacularly staged revival of Disney The Little Mermaid at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the absolute best of the now eight productions I’ve seen of this most enchanting of musicals.
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