THE WEDDING SINGER

posted on June 9th, 2025 at 4:41 PM by Steven Stanley


Los Angeles musical theater doesn’t get any more exciting, tuneful, or sensationally performed than the 100%-local revival of The Wedding Singer now bringing Colony Theatre audiences to their feet with its blend of music, comedy, unabashed romantic and 1980s nostalgia.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

FROZEN

posted on June 8th, 2025 at 12:23 PM by Steven Stanley


Eight years after its Broadway debut, Disney’s Frozen has at long last arrived at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, where it is treating audiences of all ages to two hours of spectacle, laughter, and heart.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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!

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