MATILDA THE MUSICAL

posted on September 6th, 2025 at 11:25 AM by Steven Stanley

With over two-dozen talented tykes and teens singing and dancing their hearts out, Matilda The Musical is sure to be packing them in during its three-week run at on Whittier Community Theatre stage.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review

RENT

posted on August 31st, 2025 at 3:25 PM by Steven Stanley


A talented bunch of Gen Zers make it crystal clear why Jonathan Larson’s Gen X musical Rent is still going strong at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center nearly thirty years after its Broadway debut.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

INTO THE WOODS

posted on August 30th, 2025 at 3:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Wisteria Theater Company reimagines Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods as seen through the eyes of a child and the result is a production so sparklingly new, I felt almost as if I were experiencing the Broadway musical classic, one I’ve now seen in a whopping 24 productions, for the very first time.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

THE WOOLGATHERER

posted on August 25th, 2025 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley

I’m usually a sucker for a wounded-souls-can’t-help-falling-in-love two-hander, but based on the guest production now playing at the Victory Theatre Center, William Mastrosimone’s The Woolgatherer would seem to be the exception to that rule.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

posted on August 23rd, 2025 at 10:30 AM by Steven Stanley

Even a minor Tennessee Williams play like Suddenly Last Summer deserves far better than the misbegotten revival the 1958 one-act is being given at North Hollywood’s Whitmore-Lindley Theatre.

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DRACULA THE MUSICAL

posted on August 22nd, 2025 at 2:21 PM by Steven Stanley


Vampire fans will find themselves in Transylvania Heaven at The Nocturne Theatre’s stunningly staged in-the-round revival of Dracula The Musical, now thrillifying audiences while treating them to some of the most spectacular vocals in town.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

SHUCKED

posted on August 21st, 2025 at 3:36 PM by Steven Stanley


Corn is king in Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Robert Horn’s Shucked, the most hee-haw-larious musical comedy Broadway has seen in years, and as tuneful and heart-filled and downright original as a feel-good musical can get.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SEAGULL: MALIBU

posted on August 18th, 2025 at 4:52 PM by Steven Stanley


Ellen Geer updates Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull from 1890s tsarist Russia to Malibu, California during the “It’s All About Me” 1970s, and the exhilarating result is The Seagull: Malibu, a romantic dramedy that’s both Chekhovian and Southern Californian, and a Summer Of 2025 treat no matter how you feel about Chekhov.
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posted in Classic Play, Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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