REEFER MADNESS

posted on April 11th, 2026 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley


Women cry for it, men die for it, and the audience goes wild for it in Wisteria Theater Company’s wickedly entertaining take on Reefer Madness The Musical, Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney’s tuneful stage adaptation of what is surely one of the worst movies ever made.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

SOMEBODY TO LOVE

posted on April 7th, 2026 at 5:19 PM by Steven Stanley


Four college besties set off on a decades-long journey through life at the Rubicon Theatre in Somebody To Love, a crowd-pleasing World Premiere jukebox musical that with some script tweaking could have legs on the regional theater circuit.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, World Premiere, WOW!

THE MESSENGER

posted on April 6th, 2026 at 9:55 AM by Steven Stanley

Real-life Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor’s life is interwoven with those of three fictional women created by playwright Jenny Connell Davis in The Messenger, an impressively acted and staged Chance Theater production best suited to those who don’t mind being reminded how much hate there is in the world.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review

THE BAPTIST WITCHES OF SHELBYVILLE

posted on April 4th, 2026 at 3:17 PM by Steven Stanley

A trio of Tennessee sisters in their early 40s reunite for an entertaining albeit largely uneventful 4th Of July weekend back home in Julie Shavers’ World Premiere Southern Gothic comedy The Baptist Witches of Shelbyville, now playing once a weekend at the Whitefire Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, San Fernando Valley, Theater Review, World Premiere

AMERIKA OR, THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED

posted on March 31st, 2026 at 11:38 AM by Steven Stanley

Writer-director Dietrich Smith takes a young German immigrant on the journey of a lifetime in his stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared, the year’s most exhilarating theatrical adventure ride.

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posted in Action-Adventure, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

posted on March 30th, 2026 at 3:21 PM by Steven Stanley

Geoff Elliott’s magnificent star turn as Willy Loman, nearly a dozen impeccable supporting performances, and inspired direction and design by an all-star A Noise Within team add up to as brilliant a revival of Death Of A Salesman as any Arthur Miller aficionado could ever hope to see.

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posted in Drama, Pasadena, Revival Of A 20th-Century Play, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on March 28th, 2026 at 5:13 PM by Steven Stanley

A charismatic Sean Yves Lessard as best-selling novelist Jamie Wellerstein cannot overcome a miscast “Shiksa Goddess,” lackluster direction, and poor sound mixing in Chalomot Productions’ well-intentioned but largely unsuccessful revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Hudson Backstage.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, Two-Hander

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT

posted on March 26th, 2026 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley


Monty Python’s Spamalot is back, and the Hollywood Pantages has got it, guaranteeing L.A. audiences not only the wildest, wackiest, and winningest of musical comedy rides but a spectacular new scenic design and even more flashy dancing than the 2005 Broadway original.
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