JUST ANOTHER DAY

posted on September 22nd, 2025 at 12:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Unlike the characters they play in Just Another Day, The Bad Seed Oscar nominee Patty McCormack and The Wonder Years star Dan Lauria are still sharp as tacks, but sadly I can’t add my voice to those who have raved about Lauria’s overly wordy Alzheimer’s-themed comedy, now wrapping up its run at the Odyssey.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

COME FROM AWAY

posted on September 22nd, 2025 at 11:29 AM by Steven Stanley


Come From Away makes its long-awaited regional debut at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts in a feel-good production that’s even better than the already brilliant 2017 Tony-winning Broadway original at bringing to life this true story of heroism, humanity, and heart triumphing over terror.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

FLY ME TO THE SUN

posted on September 20th, 2025 at 4:27 PM by Steven Stanley

Recent Carnegie Mellon grad Gerardo Navarro gives a charismatic, moving, star-making performance in Brian Quijada’s Fly Me To The Sun, but at the very least this Fountain Theatre West Coast Premiere could use some major pruning.
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posted in Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander

ADOLESCENT SALVATION

posted on September 19th, 2025 at 3:17 PM by Steven Stanley


A Tequila-fueled game of Truth or Dare yields unpredictable and life-changing consequences for the teenage protagonists of Adolescent Salvation, Tim Venable’s latest bit of play-writing brilliance on Rogue Machine’s ultra-intimate Henry Murray Stage.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

EUREKA DAY

posted on September 16th, 2025 at 9:34 AM by Steven Stanley


Vaccination advocates and their opponents find themselves at each other’s throats to hysterically funny and deadly accurate effect in Jonathan Spector’s Tony-winning comedy Eureka Day, Pasadena Playhouse’s Broadway-caliber 2025-2026 season opener.
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posted in Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

MASALA DABBA

posted on September 15th, 2025 at 7:55 AM by Steven Stanley


An Indian widow pays an unexpected visit to the adult daughter she hasn’t communicated with in over fifteen years, her daughter’s African-American husband, and the teenage granddaughter she has never met in Wendy Graf’s cross-cultural family drama Marsela Dabba, an impressive International City Theatre World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

RAGTIME

posted on September 15th, 2025 at 7:49 AM by Steven Stanley

Some fine lead performances and plenty of soaring full-cast harmonies shine in Actors Repertory Theater of Simi’s restaging of the Broadway classic Ragtime, but the move from the intimate Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center to the far larger El Portal Theatre mainstage proves more a minus than a plus.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review

WINE IN THE WILDERNESS

posted on September 9th, 2025 at 5:02 PM by Steven Stanley


Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum concludes one of its best seasons ever with an absolutely terrific staging of Alice Childress’s slice-of-1960s-African-American-life Wine In The Wilderness.
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