THESE SHINING LIVES

posted on March 11th, 2025 at 11:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Decades before Erin Brockovich played David to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Goliath, a young woman fought a similarly consequential battle in Ottawa, Illinois, events that playwright Melanie Marnich recounts in These Shining Lives, the stunning latest from Hollywood’s Actors Co-op.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

SUCH SMALL HANDS

posted on March 9th, 2025 at 12:13 PM by Steven Stanley


Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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posted in Drama, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, Two-Hander, World Premiere, WOW!

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

posted on March 8th, 2025 at 12:46 PM by Steven Stanley


Nearly thirty years after its Los Angeles World Premiere, Bat Boy The Musical finally gets the sensationally staged and performed local revival it so richly deserves thanks to the always impressive Open Fist Theatre Company.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

WEST SIDE STORY

posted on March 4th, 2025 at 6:22 PM by Steven Stanley

A number of brilliant directorial choices make the first act of Nocturne Theatre’s West Side Story so thrillingly innovative that it comes as a disappointment that some less inspired ones in Act Two end up diminishing the overall impact of this otherwise impressive in-the-round revival of the 1957 Broadway classic.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review

FROU-FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS

posted on March 3rd, 2025 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley


If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo’s deliciously daring queer riff on Williams’ A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE

posted on March 2nd, 2025 at 10:54 AM by Steven Stanley

I’m too much of a fan of Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman’s “modern day musical love story” I Love You Because not to feel let down and put out by the overacted, misdirected Chromolume Theatre production now playing at the Zephyr Theatre.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review

44 THE MUSICAL

posted on March 1st, 2025 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Has life under 47 got you down? If so, head on over to the Kirk Douglas Theatre where 44 The Musical’s rollicking, raunchy, R&B-packed look back at Barack Obama’s first term in office has arrived to provide L.A. audiences with a spirits-lifting respite from the DJT blues.
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posted in Musical Spoof, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

BACON

posted on February 25th, 2025 at 12:30 PM by Steven Stanley


Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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