AMERICAN IDIOT

posted on July 18th, 2026 at 9:36 AM by Steven Stanley


Punk rock energy ignites the Broadwater Mainstage in Conundrum Theatre Company’s high-octane revival of the international smash American Idiot, easily the rawest, grittiest, and most ear-splitting of the nine productions I’ve now seen of the Green Day musical.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

MEXODUS

posted on July 14th, 2026 at 12:17 PM by Steven Stanley


New musicals don’t get any more one-of-a-kind than Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson’s supremely inventive, supremely innovative, supremely elucidating and entertaining off-Broadway two-hander Mexodus, now dazzling Pasadena Playhouse audiences direct from its New York run.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

posted on July 13th, 2026 at 12:42 PM by Steven Stanley


Director Larry Raben and choreographer Corey Wright reinvent Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat like it’s never been reinvented before in a Musical Theatre West revival that feels fresh and new and very Gen Z-meets-Gen Alpha.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

IF/THEN

posted on July 13th, 2026 at 9:49 AM by Steven Stanley

The production itself is a mixed bag, but at the very least Chromolume Theatre’s black-box staging of the Broadway musical If/Then gives L.A. audiences the chance to rediscover a show that didn’t deserve to vanish from sight after its National Tour played the Pantages ten years ago.
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ROMEO AND JULIET

posted on July 6th, 2026 at 4:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Casting real-life highschoolers as the world’s most iconic pair of lovestruck teens is just one reason Theatricum Botanicum’s Romeo And Juliet feels fresh and new. So is setting the classic tale of doomed adolescent lovers in Gilded Age New York.

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posted in Classic Play, Now Playing, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE GREAT CLOWN BANK SHOW

posted on July 6th, 2026 at 11:19 AM by Steven Stanley

Though Open Fist Theatre Company scores an “A+” for adventurousness, the often entertaining “immersive theater extravaganza” that is Hank Jacobs’ The Great Clown Bank Show proves somewhat of a hit-or-miss enterprise.

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posted in Los Angeles, Now Playing, Play With Songs, Theater Review, World Premiere

E=MC²

posted on July 6th, 2026 at 7:48 AM by Steven Stanley

If the life of Albert Einstein seems rather unlikely subject matter for a musical, at the very least the scientist who gave us the Theory of Relativity deserves better than E=MC², the well-intentioned musical muddle now guesting at Glendale’s Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Now Playing, Theater Review

PAINTED PONIES

posted on June 29th, 2026 at 9:44 AM by Steven Stanley


L.A. theater treasure Rachel Sorsa delivers an extraordinary solo star turn in Ian McRae’s powerful but bleak Ruskin Group Theatre World Premiere drama Painted Ponies.
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