WALKING IN SPACE

posted on September 9th, 2023 at 12:08 PM by Steven Stanley


Four young adult siblings confront their drug-addicted mother to shattering effect in Walking In Space, Gary Michael Kruger’s powerful, fact-based follow-up to his Best-of-2016 winner A Thorn In The Family Paw.
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THE PROM

posted on September 4th, 2023 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley


There aren’t enough superlatives in the book to describe Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s stand-up-and-cheer regional premiere of The Prom, my absolute favorite Broadway musical of the past five years.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

THE BLUEST EYE

posted on September 4th, 2023 at 12:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Performances are uniformly topnotch and the A Noise Within season opener is imaginatively directed and stylishly designed. I only wish I had enjoyed Lydia R. Diamond’s undoubtedly faithful stage adaptation of Toni Morrison’s downer of a novel The Bluest Eye even half as much as the Grade A treatment it’s been given.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review

KILL SHELTER: THE BLUE CAST

posted on September 2nd, 2023 at 10:28 AM by Steven Stanley


Not only is Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.
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OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD

posted on August 29th, 2023 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley

The four complex, authentic teen characters Alexis Scheer has created and the direction, performances, and design of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’s West Coast Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre are all so rave-worthy, it’s disappointing that the play’s gratuitously violent, deliberately unintelligible, and “WTF is that supposed to mean?” last twenty minutes are not.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

posted on August 29th, 2023 at 10:39 AM by Steven Stanley


Arthur Miller and Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre once again prove a match made in heaven with A View From The Bridge, magnificently performed in an intimate staging that turns every single audience member into a fly on the wall of this gritty Greek tragedy set on the waterfront of 1950s Brooklyn.
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HUNGRY GHOST

posted on August 29th, 2023 at 10:38 AM by Steven Stanley

A pregnant woman is visited nightly by the Stevie Nicks-loving adult ghost of her as yet unborn child in Hungry Ghost, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s surreal, supernatural head-scratcher of a play now getting its Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere

EXIT WOUNDS

posted on August 26th, 2023 at 12:06 PM by Steven Stanley


A father at the end of his rope seeks help for his delinquent teenage son from a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty-five years in Wendy Graf’s compelling, cathartic family drama Exit Wounds, now getting an absorbing World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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