ALICE BY HEART

posted on November 9th, 2025 at 1:05 PM by Steven Stanley


The off-Broadway critics got it right when they called Alice By Heart’s book muddled, but that didn’t bother me a bit last night, so captivated was I by the impressive production it has been given by MouthBone Theater Company.

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LE SWITCH

posted on November 8th, 2025 at 1:21 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s love at first sight (but will there be a happily ever after?) for marriage-phobic David and the irresistible Quebecois he meets on a bachelor party trip to Montreal in Philip Dawkins’ very funny and very romantic Le Switch, now charming audiences at the Broadwater Blackbox.
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PERFECT WORLD

posted on November 4th, 2025 at 1:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Barbara Follett had two novels published before she turned 15. Then, at the age of 25, she disappeared and was never heard from again. Her life now forms the basis of Perfect World, a promising new bio-musical being given the most polished of World Premieres at the El Portal Theatre.
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PETER PAN GOES WRONG

posted on November 2nd, 2025 at 12:56 PM by Steven Stanley


If you thought The Play That Goes Wrong set a laugh record at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, that record has now been broken by the even wilder, even wackier, even funnier Peter Pan Goes Wrong.
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, Theater Review, WOW!

MASCOGOS

posted on November 1st, 2025 at 10:20 AM by Steven Stanley

Memorable performances and a stunning production design go a long way towards overcoming a tangled storyline and the absence of supertitles in Latino Theater Company’s thrillingly acted and visually stunning World Premiere drama Mascogos, now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON–APT. 2B

posted on October 27th, 2025 at 10:54 AM by Steven Stanley

Even the finest theaters can be permitted a major misfire from time to time, and such is the case with International Theatre Company’s 2025 season closer, Kate Hammill’s Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson–Apt. 2B.
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posted in Comedy, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review

CYMBELINE

posted on October 26th, 2025 at 7:15 PM by Steven Stanley


Cymbeline may seem an unlikely title for a Western a la Gunsmoke, Bonanza, or The Rifleman, but William Shakespeare and the American West prove an inspired mix in Antaeus Theatre Company’s 2025-26 season opener.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Classic Play, Theater Review, WOW!

ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME

posted on October 25th, 2025 at 3:06 PM by Steven Stanley

A heaping helping of music video-style dance numbers and over twenty of Britney Spears’ Greatest Hits go a long way towards keeping the audience at Jaxx Theatricals entertained for two and a half hours, but minus multi-million-dollar Broadway production values, Once Upon A One More Time’s book-related shortcomings are harder to ignore in its AEA Showcase Los Angeles Premiere.
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