SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL

posted on December 8th, 2025 at 12:10 PM by Steven Stanley


Ebenezer Scrooge sings and dances and delights audiences of all ages in Leslie Bricusse’s Scrooge! The Musical, a holiday gift from Chance Theater so toe-tappingly tuneful, even the grinchiest grouch will be powerless to resist his crochety charms.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DIE HEART: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

posted on December 6th, 2025 at 11:20 AM by Steven Stanley


The Troubies are back at the Colony Theatre for their annual spoofstravaganza, the “Director’s Cut” of December 2022’s Die Heart, and let me tell you I had even more fun the second time around (and not simply because heroic protagonist John McClane, played by national treasure Matt Walker, interrupted the mayhem and merriment to give a certain L.A. theater reviewer a shoutout).
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

CRY IT OUT

posted on December 1st, 2025 at 1:18 PM by Steven Stanley

Powerhouse acting honed during Cry It Out’s three-week run at Little Fish Theatre made me glad I got to experience the final performance of Molly Smith Metzler’s funny, compelling, deeply moving dramedy about modern-day motherhood and marriage.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, South Bay, Theater Review

OUR TOWN

posted on November 29th, 2025 at 10:31 AM by Steven Stanley

The Group Rep takes us back to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire circa 1901 for a solid if not extraordinary revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

posted on November 25th, 2025 at 1:52 PM by Steven Stanley


Leave it to director Cate Caplin to take a play I had previously found to be heavy-handed and preachy, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, and transform it into something quite magical at Theatre 40.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT

posted on November 24th, 2025 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley


Casa 0101 provides proof positive that last year’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was no fluke, the Boyle Heights theater company returning this holiday season with their impressively staged and performed take on Stephen Schwartz, Philip LaZebnik, and The Book of Exodus’s The Prince Of Egypt.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

POINTY SCISSORS

posted on November 22nd, 2025 at 1:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Things go from bad to worse and from hilarious to hilariouser when a nincompoop barber accidentally sticks a pair of pointy scissors into a customer’s ear and then hides the body in the barber shop storeroom in Clara Rodriguez’s nonstop fun fest Pointy Scissors, a Theatre West World Premiere.

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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

SUFFS

posted on November 21st, 2025 at 9:31 AM by Steven Stanley

Women’s History Month may not be until March but there are lessons to be learned in Suffs, Shaina Taub’s imperfect but educational and ultimately stirring double-Tony-winning musical about the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review

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