NOISES OFF

posted on February 8th, 2025 at 1:09 PM by Steven Stanley


Westwood’s esteemed Geffen Playhouse and Chicago’s illustrious Steppenwolf Theatre Company join creative forces to give L.A. audiences a fabulously entertaining revival of what may well be the most inventive and uproarious farce ever written, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT

posted on February 7th, 2025 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley

Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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THE BROTHERS ABELSON SINCE 1946

posted on February 4th, 2025 at 12:25 PM by Steven Stanley


Dramatic fireworks explode when a 26-year-old New York-based graphic novelist is summoned back to the family home in Dennis Danziger’s powerful autobiographical three-hander The Brothers Abelson Since 1942, a guest production at Venice’s Electric Lodge.
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tick, tick… BOOM!

posted on February 3rd, 2025 at 11:26 AM by Steven Stanley


Chance Theater does Jonathan Larson proud with the absolute best of the nine productions I’ve seen of tick, tick… BOOM!, the Rent legend’s early-1990s autobiographical one-man show turned musical three-hander.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING

posted on February 1st, 2025 at 1:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Characters whose eccentricities are carried to the extreme and a plot whose raison d’être escapes me are two reasons why Rogue Machine Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of Will Albery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing proves a major disappointment from the playwright and company who gave us one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed box office successes with Heroes Of The Fourth Turning.
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LISTING

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


To renovate or not to renovate, that is the question when an early 20th-century architectural gem is put up for sale in Russell Brown’s Listing, an already absorbing drama when slowly but surely it reveals its true nature as one doozy of a thriller.
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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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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!

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