THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

posted on March 23rd, 2025 at 11:11 AM by Steven Stanley


Wisteria Theater Company scores their second hit in a row with their completely captivating take on the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, impressively directed by Brayden Hade.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

DRAT! THE CAT!

posted on March 22nd, 2025 at 11:03 AM by Steven Stanley


Sixty years after it flopped big time on Broadway, the largely forgotten Drat! The Cat! has been given fresh new life by director Bruce Kimmel in a delightful, six-decades-postponed West Coast Premiere at the Group Rep Theatre.
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LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!

posted on March 19th, 2025 at 8:39 AM by Steven Stanley

There’s some very good work being done on the Westchester Playhouse stage in Kentwood Players frontal-nudity-free staging of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Terrence McNally’s three-and-a-half-hour-long celebration of gay love and friendship in the time of AIDS.
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posted in Drama, South Bay, Theater Review

ONE FOR MY BABY

posted on March 18th, 2025 at 8:09 AM by Steven Stanley

A musical can have hit potential where songs, dances, performances, and production design are concerned, however without a compelling, coherent book to grab an audience, it can still end up a miss, case in point the 3-plus-hour-long retro jukebox musical One For My Baby, now getting its World Premiere at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

CABARET

posted on March 15th, 2025 at 12:16 PM by Steven Stanley


Even constrained by the limitations of a rented set, master director Michael Matthews and an absolutely superb cast deliver a 5-Star Theatricals Cabaret resplendent with Matthews’ unique brand of brilliance.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

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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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, 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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