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AN INSPECTOR CALLS

posted on November 25th, 2025 at 1:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Leave it to director Cate Caplin to take a play I had previously found to be heavy-handed and preachy, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, and transform it into something quite magical at Theatre 40.
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Tags: J.B. Priestley, Los Angeles Theater Review, Theatre 40
posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT

posted on November 24th, 2025 at 12:31 PM by Steven Stanley

Casa 0101 provides proof positive that last year’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was no fluke, the Boyle Heights theater company returning this holiday season with their impressively staged and performed take on Stephen Schwartz, Philip LaZebnik, and The Book of Exodus’s The Prince Of Egypt.
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Tags: Casa 0101, Los Angeles Theater Review, Philip LaZebnik, Stephen Schwartz
posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

POINTY SCISSORS

posted on November 22nd, 2025 at 1:30 PM by Steven Stanley

Things go from bad to worse and from hilarious to hilariouser when a nincompoop barber accidentally sticks a pair of pointy scissors into a customer’s ear and then hides the body in the barber shop storeroom in Clara Rodriguez’s nonstop fun fest Pointy Scissors, a Theatre West World Premiere.

SUFFS

posted on November 21st, 2025 at 9:31 AM by Steven Stanley

Women’s History Month may not be until March but there are lessons to be learned in Suffs, Shaina Taub’s imperfect but educational and ultimately stirring double-Tony-winning musical about the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century.
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Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, Los Angeles Theater Review, Pantages Theatre, Shaina Taub
posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, National Tour, Theater Review

BORDER CRISIS

posted on November 18th, 2025 at 1:34 PM by Steven Stanley

Considering how much of what’s coming out of Washington DC these days seems like théâtre de l’absurde, the time could hardly be riper for City Garage to debut Charles A. Duncombe’s absurdist comedy Border Crisis, though in the case of this contemporary adaptation of a 1967 Polish play, excellent intentions yield less than successful results.
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Tags: Charles A. Duncombe, City Garage, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stawomir Mrozek
posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

posted on November 15th, 2025 at 1:44 PM by Steven Stanley

An American couple attempting to make a fresh start in London soon discover this is more easily said than done when things start going bump in the night in Levi Holloway’s terrorific stage spinoff of the movie franchise Paranormal Activity, now scaring the living daylights out of thrill-and-chill-seeking Angelinos at the Ahmanson.

TABLE 17

posted on November 14th, 2025 at 9:34 AM by Steven Stanley

Audiences are invited to talk back to the exes who reunite at a trendy night spot to rehash the past and maybe, just possibly get back together in the MCC Theater production of Douglas Lyons’ raucously funny off-Broadway hit Table 17, imported to L.A. by the Geffen Playhouse precisely when stressed-out Angelinos need it most.

नेहा & NEEL (NEHA & NEEL)

posted on November 10th, 2025 at 12:28 PM by Steven Stanley

A divorced Indian mother and her USA-born-and-raised teenage son embark on the year’s most entertaining and heartwarming road trip in Ankita Raturi’s नेहा & Neel (Neha & Neel), now guaranteeing audiences an abundance of laughs and more than a few cross-cultural insights at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

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