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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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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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

posted on September 8th, 2025 at 8:17 AM by Steven Stanley


The Swinging Sixties have rarely if ever swung as wildly and wackily as they do in the physical-comedy-packed screwball funfest that is the West End-to-Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, A Noise Within’s couldn’t-be-more-fabulous 2025-2026 season opener.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

MATILDA THE MUSICAL

posted on September 6th, 2025 at 11:25 AM by Steven Stanley

With over two-dozen talented tykes and teens singing and dancing their hearts out, Matilda The Musical is sure to be packing them in during its three-week run at on Whittier Community Theatre stage.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review

RENT

posted on August 31st, 2025 at 3:25 PM by Steven Stanley


A talented bunch of Gen Zers make it crystal clear why Jonathan Larson’s Gen X musical Rent is still going strong at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center nearly thirty years after its Broadway debut.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

INTO THE WOODS

posted on August 30th, 2025 at 3:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Wisteria Theater Company reimagines Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods as seen through the eyes of a child and the result is a production so sparklingly new, I felt almost as if I were experiencing the Broadway musical classic, one I’ve now seen in a whopping 24 productions, for the very first time.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

THE WOOLGATHERER

posted on August 25th, 2025 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley

I’m usually a sucker for a wounded-souls-can’t-help-falling-in-love two-hander, but based on the guest production now playing at the Victory Theatre Center, William Mastrosimone’s The Woolgatherer would seem to be the exception to that rule.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review

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