KIM’S CONVENIENCE

posted on March 25th, 2026 at 3:49 PM by Steven Stanley


As hard as I fell for Kim’s Convenience when I streamed the Canadian sitcom on Netflix a couple of years back, I was unprepared for how head over heels I would be for its inspiration, Ins Choi’s 2011 feel-amazing stage gem now paying a visit to the Ahmanson.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, National Tour, Theater Review, WOW!

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

posted on March 22nd, 2026 at 1:15 PM by Steven Stanley


Six terrific actresses strut their comedic stuff as a sextet of Louisiana women whose delicate exteriors hide tough-as-steel cores in the Group Rep’s season-opening crowd-pleaser, Robert Harling’s Southern-fried charmer Steel Magnolias.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

GUILTY PLEASURES

posted on March 17th, 2026 at 4:26 PM by Steven Stanley


Noël Coward meets Neil Simon in Ken Levine’s sexy new romcom romp Guilty Pleasures, now getting a laugh-packed West Coast Premiere at the LAX-adjacent Kentwood Players.
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FAIRVIEW

posted on March 16th, 2026 at 5:20 PM by Steven Stanley

It’s taken eight years for Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview to make it from New York to L.A., and though I have mixed feelings about her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the production Rogue Machine Theatre has mounted of it could not be more sensationally acted, directed, or designed.
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

posted on March 15th, 2026 at 8:38 AM by Steven Stanley


The Nocturne Theatre reinvents Jesus Christ Superstar to thrilling effect by re-situating the famed rock opera in a dystopian version of the world we live in today, and that’s only the beginning.

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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE BEST BOARDING HOUSE IN DELAWARE

posted on March 13th, 2026 at 3:38 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Marja-Lewis Ryan is back, and reunited with her One In The Chamber star Heidi Sulzman in The Best Boarding House In Delaware, not only the year’s most deliciously dark comedy but one that marks the return to the stage of the exquisite Leigh Taylor-Young.
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YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

posted on March 8th, 2026 at 1:31 PM by Steven Stanley


Inspired direction and an all-around fabulous cast overcome community theater design limitations in You Can’t Take It With You, the latest crowd-pleaser from Santa Monica’s now 80-year-old Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, Revival Of A 20th-Century Play, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE DIGNITY CIRCLE

posted on March 4th, 2026 at 10:56 AM by Steven Stanley


If someone offered you the chance to get rich quick and improve your self-esteem in the bargain, would you take it? That’s the question posed by playwright Lauren Smerkanich in The Dignity Circle, the provocative, entertaining latest from Theatre of NOTE.
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