THE SECRET GARDEN, THE MUSICAL

posted on December 4th, 2023 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


The Secret Garden, The Musical, makes a triumphant holiday season return to Chance Theater in its fourth incarnation, the first to take advantage of the company’s expansive Cripe Stage, and the result is a gorgeously performed, gorgeously designed stunner.
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posted in Orange County, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – ON AIR!

posted on December 4th, 2023 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley

A ragtag bunch of inadvertent thespians find themselves forced to step in for a dozen snowstorm-stranded 1940s Hollywood A-listers in It’s A Wonderful Life – ON AIR!, a clever concept given an entertaining if overlong (and at times overplayed) execution at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center.
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posted in Staged Radio Play, Theater Review, Ventura County

FREIGHT

posted on November 29th, 2023 at 12:07 PM by Steven Stanley


Audiences are flocking to the Fountain Theatre and with good reason. J. Alphonse Nicholson’s tour-de-force star turn as a man with five lives in Howard L. Craft’s off-Broadway-to-L.A. hit Freight is the stuff awards are made for.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HALF-LIGHT

posted on November 27th, 2023 at 1:17 PM by Steven Stanley


Four emotionally scarred individuals get a second chance at happiness in Monica Wood’s The Half-Light, a Theatre 40 West Coast Premiere whose touching performances and message of hope make this heartstrings-tugger a bona fide audience-pleaser.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

METEOR SHOWER

posted on November 25th, 2023 at 12:49 PM by Steven Stanley


Leave it to “a wild and crazy guy” like Steve Martin to write a wild and crazy play like Meteor Shower, the deliciously quirky, stealthily surreal hour-long gem now tickling audiences at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

INSULTED. BELARUS

posted on November 21st, 2023 at 1:02 PM by Steven Stanley


A nation’s failed efforts to unseat one of the world’s most reviled dictators comes to stunning, gut-punching life in City Garage Theatre’s English-language World Premiere of Andrei Kureichik’s Insulted. Belarus, an eye-opener to those like myself who knew little to nothing about recent events in Europe’s 13th largest country.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

posted on November 20th, 2023 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley

Whether you love the entirety of the Porters of Hellgate’s All’s Well That Ends Well, or enjoy some parts of it more than others, will likely depend on how much of a William Shakespeare fan you are where this “problem comedy” is concerned.
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posted in Classic Play, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review

A FAMILY BUSINESS

posted on November 18th, 2023 at 12:44 PM by Steven Stanley


All hell breaks loose when a dating couple and two sets of parents get together for the first time in A Family Business, Matt Chait’s thoroughly entertaining follow-up to Bearings, which won the playwright a 2022-2023 Best Of The Year Scenie.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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