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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THE MUSIC MAN

posted on October 28th, 2026 at 12:35 PM by Steven Stanley


Few Golden Age musicals stand the test of time the way Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic The Music Man has for the past 69 years, and if you don’t believe me check out the fabulously entertaining National Tour now paying a visit to the Ahmanson Theater.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

RORSCHACH

posted on October 26th, 2026 at 12:20 PM by Steven Stanley


Four contemporary Angelinos find their lives intertwined with that of pioneering Swiss psychiatrist-psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach more than a century after his death in Kelly Younger’s Rorschach, a spectacular World Premiere season opener for a Skylight Theatre Company rejuvenated under Cameron Watson’s artistic directorship.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

AS YOU LIKE IT

posted on October 24th, 2026 at 4:06 PM by Steven Stanley


Sparking performances and inventive direction make a 427-year-old play come vibrantly alive for modern audiences in The Porters Of Hellsgate’s inspired take on one of William Shakespeare’s most frequently staged comedies, the provocatively gender-bending As You Like It.
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posted in Classic Play, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

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, 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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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Now Playing, Theater Review

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!

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