THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

posted on January 26th, 2025 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley


Everything goes right where laughter is concerned in The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End-to-Broadway comedy smash that that just might set a laughs-per-minute record at the La Mirada Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, Theater Review, WOW!

SLEEPING GIANT

posted on January 25th, 2025 at 5:52 PM by Steven Stanley


All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, North Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

posted on January 21st, 2025 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


CCAE Theatricals’ acclaimed production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has arrived at the Lewis Family Playhouse to dazzle audiences with a spectacular mix of thrilling storytelling, superb performances, and dazzling multimedia magic.
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posted in Drama, Inland Empire, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

THE SEAGULL

posted on January 20th, 2025 at 1:49 PM by Steven Stanley

A TV-star-studded guest production at the Odyssey Theater does a mostly terrific job of reminding audiences that Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is, as its author steadfastly maintained, a comedy, but falls short of that goal in the play’s downer of a final act.
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posted in Classic Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

THE CURIOUS SAVAGE

posted on January 19th, 2025 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s not the crazies who should be committed in John Patrick’s 1950 comedic gem The Curious Savage, the auspicious start to what promises to be the best season in years for North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN

posted on January 19th, 2025 at 12:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Panic! Productions’ midsize revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman fails to live up to Salesman’s reputation as the playwright’s greatest achievement due to a combination of inappropriate casting, ineffective direction, and snail-slow pacing on the Colony Theatre stage.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Drama, Theater Review

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 22nd, 2024 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley


Frederick Stuart’s reinventive star turn as Ebenezer Scrooge tops the reasons why my third time seeing A Noise Within’s A Christmas Carol felt like experiencing this holiday spectacular for the very first time.
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posted in Pasadena, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL

posted on December 19th, 2024 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley


The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

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