RENT

posted on July 31st, 2023 at 8:52 AM by Steven Stanley


Direction, choreography, performance, and design come together to spectacular effect as Chance Theater delivers as perfect a production of Jonathan Larson’s chef-d’ouevre as any diehard Renthead could wish for.
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CRABS IN A BUCKET

posted on July 29th, 2023 at 5:12 PM by Steven Stanley


If Eugene Ionesco or Samuel Beckett were writing plays today, they might well have come up with something very much like Bernardo Cubría’s tangy absurdist comedy, Crabs In A Bucket, now getting its World Premiere at Echo Theater Company.
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LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE

posted on July 24th, 2023 at 11:27 AM by Steven Stanley


Last Summer At Bluefish Cove, Jane Chambers’ groundbreaking lesbian romantic dramedy, has returned to the theater that first introduced it to L.A. audiences 40 years ago in a superb outdoor revival that makes Fountain Theatre the place to be This Summer In Los Angeles.
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GROUP THERAPY

posted on July 23rd, 2023 at 11:43 AM by Steven Stanley


A therapist’s waiting room provides No Exit for two impatient patients—and the sudden arrival of a third individual makes things a whole lot dicier—in Group Therapy, Peter Lefcourt’s latest World Premiere gem, a guest production at North Hollywood’s spiffily refurbished Theatre 68 Arts Complex.
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SCENIES 2022-2023

posted on July 19th, 2023 at 8:21 AM by Steven Stanley

Click here to see this year’s list of winners.

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STEW

posted on July 17th, 2023 at 10:55 AM by Steven Stanley


Pasadena Playhouse concludes its monumentally successful Tony-winning 2022-2023 season on a sky-high note with Zora Howard’s gripping, thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining “kitchen sink” dramedy Stew.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

AVENUE Q

posted on July 16th, 2023 at 12:11 PM by Steven Stanley


The expletive-spouting puppets of Avenue Q are back, as foul-mouthed and fabulous as ever, in The Wayward Artist’s terrifically entertaining intimate staging of the 2003 Broadway smash.
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THE TURN OF THE SCREW

posted on July 15th, 2023 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley


Michael Mullen and Shayna Gabrielle deliver bravura performances at Sierra Madre Playhouse in Jeffrey Hatcher’s adeptly adapted retelling of Henry James’ classic horror novella The Turn Of The Screw.
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posted in San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

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