posted on August 10th, 2026 at 12:26 PM by Steven Stanley


You know me as L.A.’s most prolific theater reviewer, but did you also know that I’ve spent my entire professional career teaching English as a Second Language?  Continue reading to see how I have segued from the university classroom into online coaching.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

posted on October 20th, 2026 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre has a big-stage, big-talent hit on their hands with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, a tuneful, double entendre-packed, laugh-filled treat for Brooks fans and classic horror buffs alike.
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posted in Inland Empire, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

SAINT MEGAN

posted on October 19th, 2026 at 4:37 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Joy Gregory manages to find both humor and heart amidst the hatred spewed by Topeka, Kansas’s infamous Westboro Baptist Church in her captivating and compelling new play Saint Megan, another stunning Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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FALSETTOS

posted on October 17th, 2026 at 10:48 AM by Steven Stanley


Conundrum Theatre Company hits a bullseye with Falsettos, William Finn and James Lapine’s richly rewarding look back at a freshly out gay New Yorker’s life in the years before and just after the AIDS epidemic began to wreak havoc on his city.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

WIVES

posted on October 13th, 2026 at 9:03 AM by Steven Stanley

I wish I could say I enjoyed Jaclyn Backhaus’s time-hopping feminist comedy Wives as much as I did the delightful performances and dazzing designs on display in its Southern California Premiere at East West Players.
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COME FROM AWAY

posted on October 11th, 2026 at 11:23 AM by Steven Stanley


Excitingly reconceived staging and a fresh new design turn the Broadway smash Come From Away’s true-life tale of heroism, humanity, and heart triumphing over terror into one of the most thrilling A Noise Within musicals ever.
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posted in Musical, Now Playing, Pasadena, Theater Review, WOW!

FOREVER IN THERE OR F*CK AROUND AND FIND OUT

posted on October 10th, 2026 at 10:21 AM by Steven Stanley


Forever in There or F*ck Around and Find Out. The title may be easily forgotten, but not the gripping Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that Kill Shelter’s Ashley Rose Wellman has written about two Americans at long last freed from captivity in an unspecified foreign danger zone.
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SWEENEY TODD

posted on October 6th, 2026 at 11:51 AM by Steven Stanley

 


It takes talent, ingenuity, and a whole lot of chutzpah to trim an original Broadway cast of 26 down to a mere 11 performers and deliver a Sweeney Todd with the entertainment goods of a production more than twice its size, but that’s exactly what Ophelia’s Jump has done on a matchbook-sized stage over in Upland.
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posted in Musical, Now Playing, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD

posted on October 5th, 2026 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley


Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang combines fact, fiction, and Chinese Opera in The Dance And The Railroad, a strikingly acted, designed, and danced Artists At Play and Latino Theater Company revival of Hwang’s poignant 1981 one-act.
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posted in Los Angeles, Now Playing, Play With Dance, Theater Review, Two-Hander, WOW!

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