The Toxic Avenger
Joe DiPietro (Book & Lyrics); David Bryan (Music & Lyrics)
Los Altos Stage Company
Molly Thornton & Gary Stanford
Slapstick, camp, and parody abound as an audience’s constant laughter peppers the air in the Bus Barn Theater of Los Altos Stage Company. Topics like global warming, corporate greed, corrupt political leaders, and toxic pollution are generally not that funny — especially as we watch environmental protections collapsing and tax evasions increasing all around us in 2026. But put these same topics into the hands of Tony Award winning Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics) and Bon Jovi’s David Bryan (music and lyrics) and out comes a deliciously devilish, dark comedy that is also rocking, popping, and stomping in music. With a cast sporting knock-’em-dead voices and scores of tricks-up-their-sleeves in comic antics, Los Altos Stages Company kicks the summer off with a sure-fire hit, The Toxic Avenger.
Please continue to Talkin’Broadway for the rest of my review.
Rating: 4 E
The Toxic Avenger continues through June 28 15, 2026, in a two-hour (with intermission) production by Los Altos Stage Company, 97 Hillview Avenue, Los Altos, CA. Tickets are available online at https://losaltosstage.org/; in person Thursday and Friday, 3 – 6 p.m. at the theatre’s box office; or by phone at 650-941-0551.
Photo Credit: Evelyn Huynh
