WHO’S HOLIDAY

posted on December 12th, 2025 at 1:24 PM by Steven Stanley

Cindy Lou Who is all grown up and peppering her rhyming couplets with enough 4-letter words to make a sailor blush as Anica Petrovic delivers the most dazzling of solo star turns in Matthew Lombardo’s Who’s Holiday at Hollywood’s Hobgoblin Playhouse.

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STEREOPHONIC

posted on December 11th, 2025 at 11:26 PM by Steven Stanley


If you’ve ever wondered what it would have been like to be a fly on the wall when Fleetwood Mac spent seven tumultuous months recording Rumours, the next best thing to your wish has come true in David Adjmi’s multiple-Tony winning play à clef Stereophonic.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, National Tour, Play With Songs, Theater Review, WOW!

MRS. CHRISTMAS

posted on December 8th, 2025 at 11:29 PM by Steven Stanley


San Diego theater treasure Linda Libby stands in for prolific playwright Tom Jacobson in Jacobson’s funny and loving musical tribute to his truly one-of-a-kind mother in Mrs. Christmas, now spreading holiday cheer at Long Beach’s Aurora Theatre.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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!

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