OUTSIDE MULLINGAR

posted on June 22nd, 2025 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright John Patrick Shanley has rarely been as quirkily charming as he is in his tangy Irish comedy Outside Mullingar, now in the final weekend of a scrumdiddlyumptious The 6th Act revival at the Matrix.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

PARADE

posted on June 21st, 2025 at 9:53 AM by Steven Stanley


Michael Arden’s brilliant Tony-winning direction revitalizes Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade, topping the reasons why Broadway’s 2013 Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical is an absolute must-see at the Ahmanson.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

FOSTERED

posted on June 17th, 2025 at 11:24 AM by Steven Stanley


A soap opera’s worth of family secrets and lies come to hilarious life in Chaya Doswell’s Fostered, the Ken Ludwig-worthy farce now tickling audiences’ funny bones at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR

posted on June 14th, 2025 at 4:50 PM by Steven Stanley


The stakes are sky-high when an about-to-be-published young novelist discovers that the inspiration for his debut opus may not be The Angel Next Door he’s imagined her to be in the Los Angeles Premiere of Paul Slade Smith’s latest comedic bonbon, a surefire late-spring hit for International City Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

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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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

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