CLARA VS. INFINITY

posted on April 14th, 2026 at 11:57 AM by Steven Stanley


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Peter and the Starcatcher. And now Zack Rocklin-Waltch’s Clara vs. Infinity. Plays don’t get any more extraordinary than these.
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MEAN GIRLS

posted on April 13th, 2026 at 3:19 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s taken eight years for Mean Girls to make it from Broadway to La Mirada for its Southern California Regional Premiere, and McCoy Rigby Entertainment has pulled out all the stops to deliver not only a fabulously directed, choreographed, and performed crowd-pleaser but a freshly designed one as well.
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posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

ENGLISH

posted on April 11th, 2026 at 11:04 AM by Steven Stanley


You don’t have to have made a lifetime career out of teaching English to speakers of other languages as I have to be blown away by the Broadway production of Sanaz Toossi’s extraordinary Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, now paying a must-see visit to The Wallis in Beverly Hills.

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posted in Drama, Presented Production, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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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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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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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