RABBIT HOLE

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Kudos to director Cate Caplin and an all-around superb Los Angeles-based cast for delivering so powerful a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, you’d have sworn you were watching a fully-staged production had it not been for the scripts which cast members had in hand in the latest entry in the Interact Theatre Company reading series held monthly at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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posted in Drama, San Fernando Valley, Special Event, WOW!

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 10:48 AM by Steven Stanley


The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

JANE EYRE

posted on April 11th, 2025 at 11:10 AM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within follows their spectacular reimagining of Macbeth with a solid production of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, albeit not as effectively staged or as ideally cast as I might have wished.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review

MEMORY LANE IS A DESERT ROAD

posted on April 6th, 2025 at 4:38 PM by Steven Stanley


A daughter sifts through her war correspondent father’s photos to better understand his life and her own in Nabra Nelson and Michael B. Nelson’s autobiographical gem Memory Lane Is A Desert Road, a World Premiere drama strikingly staged and terrifically performed by the young artists of Eight Ball Theatre.
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1984

posted on April 6th, 2025 at 4:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Leif Gantvoort’s powerful lead performance and Danny Cistone’s ingenious production design are the chief selling points of Robo & Bash’s production of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984. Its tonally off first act and less accomplished supporting cast not so much.

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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review

INTO THE WOODS

posted on March 31st, 2025 at 8:39 AM by Steven Stanley


Over a dozen star turns make Musical Theatre West’s staging of a Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine classic that rarity among Into The Woods revivals, a big-stage, big-talent triumph that captures the magic of the 1987 Broadway original while treating audiences to inspired new interpretations of the fairytale musical’s now iconic roles.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

ONE JEWISH BOY

posted on March 29th, 2025 at 3:46 PM by Steven Stanley


Is love enough to keep a couple together when one of them has been the victim of hate crime he simply can’t get past? This is the question posed by English playwright Stephen Laughton in his gut-punchingly powerful One Jewish Boy, now getting a compelling West Coast premiere at Echo Theater Company.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

posted on March 25th, 2025 at 10:44 AM by Steven Stanley

The audience greeted curtain calls with cheers, but for this reviewer at least, Musical Theatre Guild’s one-performance-only concert staged reading of the 2006 Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone failed to live up to the company’s next-best-thing-to-fully-staged standards.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

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