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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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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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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!

THE FEEL GOOD STORY AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW

posted on October 3rd, 2026 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley


Things get wild and crazy when six Americans held hostage by a band of Sudanese terrorists are reunited in New York for a 60 Minutes-style TV newsmagazine feature in The Feel Good Story America Needs Right Now, Mark Wilding’s latest World Premiere adventure in comedic mayhem at Theatre West.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE PETERSON SHOW

posted on September 29th, 2026 at 12:11 PM by Steven Stanley


The laughs come fast and furious amidst resurrected childhood traumas when five Cosby Show-style sitcom siblings find themselves reunited decades later in Janine Nabers’ The Peterson Show, the latest World Premiere Echo Theater Company must-see.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE BED TRICK

posted on September 27th, 2026 at 3:01 PM by Steven Stanley


HBO’s The Sex Life Of College Girls meets William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well in Chance Theater’s California Premiere of Keiko Green’s overlong but devilishly clever The Bed Trick.
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posted in Comedy, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

KAIJU

posted on September 26th, 2026 at 1:02 PM by Steven Stanley


Playwright Dan Caffrey may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew in Kaiju, his satirical mashup of Godzilla-style creature features and pretentions/clueless post-performance talkbacks, but I so enjoyed the World Premiere comedy now playing at the Road Theatre on Magnolia that I can’t really complain.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Now Playing, World Premiere, WOW!

FRANKENSTEIN: RESURRECTION

posted on September 25th, 2026 at 12:41 PM by Steven Stanley

Gothic horror isn’t really my cup of tea, but if it’s among your favorite theatrical genres, you just might find The Nocturne Theatre’s World Premiere Gothic horror musical Frankenstein: Resurrected right up your dark alley.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review

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