tick, tick… BOOM!

posted on February 3rd, 2025 at 11:26 AM by Steven Stanley


Chance Theater does Jonathan Larson proud with the absolute best of the nine productions I’ve seen of tick, tick… BOOM!, the Rent legend’s early-1990s autobiographical one-man show turned musical three-hander.
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posted in Musical, Now Playing, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING

posted on February 1st, 2025 at 1:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Characters whose eccentricities are carried to the extreme and a plot whose raison d’être escapes me are two reasons why Rogue Machine Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of Will Albery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing proves a major disappointment from the playwright and company who gave us one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed box office successes with Heroes Of The Fourth Turning.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review

LISTING

posted on January 28th, 2025 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


To renovate or not to renovate, that is the question when an early 20th-century architectural gem is put up for sale in Russell Brown’s Listing, an already absorbing drama when slowly but surely it reveals its true nature as one doozy of a thriller.
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posted in Theater Review, Thriller, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

posted on January 26th, 2025 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Everything goes right where laughter is concerned in The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End-to-Broadway comedy smash that that just might set a laughs-per-minute record at the La Mirada Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, Theater Review, WOW!

SLEEPING GIANT

posted on January 25th, 2025 at 5:52 PM by Steven Stanley


All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

posted on January 21st, 2025 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


CCAE Theatricals’ acclaimed production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has arrived at the Lewis Family Playhouse to dazzle audiences with a spectacular mix of thrilling storytelling, superb performances, and dazzling multimedia magic.
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posted in Drama, Inland Empire, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SEAGULL

posted on January 20th, 2025 at 1:49 PM by Steven Stanley

A TV-star-studded guest production at the Odyssey Theater does a mostly terrific job of reminding audiences that Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is, as its author steadfastly maintained, a comedy, but falls short of that goal in the play’s downer of a final act.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

THE CURIOUS SAVAGE

posted on January 19th, 2025 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s not the crazies who should be committed in John Patrick’s 1950 comedic gem The Curious Savage, the auspicious start to what promises to be the best season in years for North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

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