Articles Tagged With: Dakota Secula-Rosell

Falsettos at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews August 29, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

I’m neurotic. He’s neurotic. They’re neurotic. We’re neurotic. Though honestly? Life is moments you can’t understand. And I truly never thought that in almost a decade and a half of reviewing live theatre that Falsettos would be on my “I’ve seen it half a dozen or so times” list. (Let’s be real here, it isn’t Shrek or Les Mis, not to say that it isn’t important, it’s just sort of an underdog-cult-following type show.) I can’t understand it,

Tia Silver (left) as Fastrada, Dani Rizzo (center) as Leading Player, and Alex Gibbs (right) with the ensemble of Pippin at Small Town Stars Theatre Company 📷 Mort Shuman

Pippin at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews January 25, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Do you like the way dreams stick to the sky? Are you ready to run where you can ramble? Then you’re ready for Pippin with Small Town Starts Theatre Company. Come journey with them through their anecdotic revue of Stephen Schwartz (music & lyrics), Roger O. Hirson (book) and Bob Fosse (also book) because STSTC has magic to do…and it’s just for you! Directed by Joel Roberson with Musical Direction by Kelly Stoneberger and Choreography by Olivia Winter,

The Crucible at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews October 25, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

I cannot blink what I saw. And the eerie sensations of how relevant ‘misinformation’ and its wildfire-level of spread still is in this day and age is unsettling, which makes Arthur Miller’s The Crucible a perfectly chilling tale for October. And Small Town Stars Theatre Company will do you one better. They’re presenting The Crucible outdoors. Directed by Cecelia Boynton, this dark drama is eerily relevant to the world today— as we are taught not to question the court,

Erica Hansbrough (left) as Belle and David Kaiser (right) as Beast in Beauty & The Beast at Small Town Stars Theatre Company ???? Mort Shuman

Disney’s Beauty & The Beast at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews July 27, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

It takes a village— a village of 50 Frenchmen even— to assemble a production as massive as Disney’s Beauty & The Beast. And the little town— yes, that quiet village— with Belle, Gaston, all the enchanted objects? It’s set its sights on Small Town Stars Theatre Company and there it is! Disney’s Beauty & The Beast like you’ve never imagined it before, complete with flying shoes* and dancing peppermints all for young audiences,

Little Shop of Horrors at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews October 29, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Shing-a-ling, what a creepy thing to be happening! Shang-a-lang, feel the sturm and drang in the air! Sha-la-la stop right where you are— don’t you move a thing— until you get your tickets to Small Town Stars Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors! Just in time for spooky season— literally in the nick of time as the production has just four performances over Halloween weekend, including a midnight performance going into the spooktacular day itself— Small Town Stars Theatre is bringing the cult-classic Little Shop of Horrors to the Panthers Performing Arts Center on October 29,