SHREK THE MUSICAL

posted on June 7th, 2025 at 9:18 AM by Steven Stanley


The giant green ogre that everyone goes gaga for has arrived in Glendale and surrounded on all sides by his adoring fans in The Nocturne Theatre’s terrifically entertaining in-the-round production of the multiple Tony-nominated Broadway hit Shrek The Musical.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review

NETWORK

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

Bert Emmett is on fire in the role that won Peter Finch a posthumous Oscar, but the snail-paced production the Group Rep has staged of Lee Hall’s West End-to-Broadway adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning screenplay for 1976’s Network fails to ignite similar sparks.
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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review

LEAR REDUX

posted on June 2nd, 2025 at 4:35 PM by Steven Stanley


A stage-and-screen legend battles dementia and a couple of greedy offspring remarkably similar to those of a legendary Shakespearean monarch in Lear Redux, the audacious, imaginative latest from adapter-director-choreographer John Farmanesh-Bocca, now getting a stunning World Premiere at the Odyssey.
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posted in Play With Dance, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

HARVEY

posted on May 31st, 2025 at 11:49 AM by Steven Stanley


Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic about a man and an invisible six-foot-one-and-a-half-inch-tall rabbit called Harvey returns 81 years after its Broadway debut to close out Whittier Community Theatre’s 101st season on a delightfully (and thought-provokingly) winning note.
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posted in Comedy, Gateway Cities, Theater Review, WOW!

FLASHES OF LIGHT

posted on May 27th, 2025 at 5:33 PM by Steven Stanley

It takes chutzpah to juxtapose Greek mythology with 20th-century American history, but this is precisely what the creators of the tuneful World Premiere musical Flashes Of Light have done on the Sierra Madre Playhouse stage, albeit more successfully in the show’s delightful first act than in its more far-out second half.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE CHINESE LADY

posted on May 26th, 2025 at 4:42 PM by Steven Stanley


A largely forgotten figure in Asian-American history is resurrected to indelible life by a stunning Michelle Krusiec in Chance Theater’s gorgeously staged regional premiere of Lloyd Suh’s critically-acclaimed off-Broadway hit The Chinese Lady.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA

posted on May 25th, 2025 at 9:50 AM by Steven Stanley


Delightful performances, clever direction, and Douglas Carter Beane’s fresh new book are three big reasons why Wisteria Theater’s scaled-down take on the 2013 Broadway revival of the 1950s live TV classic known as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella makes it four winners in a row for the new North Hollywood company.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2

posted on May 20th, 2025 at 11:01 AM by Steven Stanley


It’s a whole new A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Pasadena Playhouse with director Jennifer Chang and an ab-fab foursome of TV/stage stars bringing to scintillating life comedic elements left mostly unexplored in the two previous productions I’ve seen of Lucas Hnath’s 2017 Broadway hit.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

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