HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

posted on April 17th, 2025 at 4:58 PM by Steven Stanley


I’m not what you’d call a fan of the fantasy genre (though I did try to make it through the first Lord Of The Rings movie and the first Harry Potter flick), but even a fantasy curmudgeon like me found myself thoroughly dazzled and ultimately quite moved by Harry Potter And The Cursed Son, now packing them in at the Pantages.
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posted in Action-Adventure, Hollywood/West Hollywood, National Tour, WOW!

BARE: A POP OPERA

posted on April 14th, 2025 at 7:00 PM by Steven Stanley

Mouth Bone Theatre’s revival of Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere’s Bare: A Pop Opera works better as a talent showcase for its cast of young musical theater performers than it does as a professional production of a show that’s beginning to show its age.
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THE WEDDING SINGER

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 4:18 PM by Steven Stanley


There may be less than half the number of performers lighting up the stage as was the case on Broadway back in 2006, but Wisteria Theater’s stripped-down take on The Wedding Singer loses not one iota of entertainment value where the movie romcom turned Broadway musical is concerned.
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RABBIT HOLE

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


Kudos to director Cate Caplin and an all-around superb Los Angeles-based cast for delivering so powerful a reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, you’d have sworn you were watching a fully-staged production had it not been for the scripts which cast members had in hand in the latest entry in the Interact Theatre Company reading series held monthly at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on April 13th, 2025 at 10:48 AM by Steven Stanley


The Nocturne Theatre and Little Shop Of Horrors prove to be a match made in musical comedy heaven as Glendale’s signature theater-in-the-round puts its own quirky, kooky, all-around fabulous stamp on the one-of-a-kind off-Broadway-to-Broadway horror musical classic.
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JANE EYRE

posted on April 11th, 2025 at 11:10 AM by Steven Stanley

A Noise Within follows their spectacular reimagining of Macbeth with a solid production of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, albeit not as effectively staged or as ideally cast as I might have wished.
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posted in Classic Play, Pasadena, Theater Review

MEMORY LANE IS A DESERT ROAD

posted on April 6th, 2025 at 4:38 PM by Steven Stanley


A daughter sifts through her war correspondent father’s photos to better understand his life and her own in Nabra Nelson and Michael B. Nelson’s autobiographical gem Memory Lane Is A Desert Road, a World Premiere drama strikingly staged and terrifically performed by the young artists of Eight Ball Theatre.
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1984

posted on April 6th, 2025 at 4:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Leif Gantvoort’s powerful lead performance and Danny Cistone’s ingenious production design are the chief selling points of Robo & Bash’s production of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984. Its tonally off first act and less accomplished supporting cast not so much.

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