Announcing the SCENIES for 2025-2026

posted on July 7th, 2026 at 9:59 AM by Steven Stanley

Click on the link to read the complete list of this year’s Scenie winners:
https://stagescenela.com/scenies-2025-2026/

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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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MEAN GIRLS

posted on June 27th, 2026 at 12:01 PM by Steven Stanley


No one can top Wisteria Theater these days when it comes to downscaling big-stage/big-budget Broadway musicals to intimate proportions while maintaining maximum entertainment value. Case in point, their fetch and fabulous take on Mean Girls The Musical.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

MAMMA MIA!

posted on June 25th, 2026 at 10:41 AM by Steven Stanley


Mamma Mia!, the jukebox musical that started it all, has returned to the Ahmanson Theatre, its 25th-Anniversary Tour treating the Broadway mega-smash’s mega-multitude of fans to not only two dozen of ABBA’s Greatest Hits but a much-needed feel-good night or matinee of musical theater enchantment.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, National Tour, Now Playing, Theater Review, WOW!

THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE

posted on June 23rd, 2026 at 11:23 AM by Steven Stanley


Ophelia’s Jump Productions celebrates Pride Month with a feel-good intimate stage revival of Matthew Lopez’s 2015 off-Broadway crowd-pleaser The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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posted in Comedy, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

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