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Theatre review: Long Beach Playhouse’s Silent Sky
There is nothing for Henrietta Leavitt (Loren Bowen) in Wisconsin. Her Bible-loving sister Margaret Leavitt (Amber Hill) is…
April 16, 2019
Theatre review: Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s Epic Poems Part I: Venus and Adonis
Though William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis is a poem, not a play, it is just as dramatic in…
April 9, 2019
Nonprofit to host art reception focusing on ‘artifacts’
Those interested will be able to observe the “artifacts” that artists recently uncovered during nonprofit Greenly Art Space’s…
April 3, 2019
Theatre review: The Long Beach Playhouse’s Lend me a Tenor
Lend me a Tenor, a pun on “lend me a tenner” (a $10 bill), is an award-winning comedy…
March 6, 2019
Theatre review: Cal Rep’s Cabaret
Four men and four women dressed in lingerie and barely-there clothing, seductively posed and staring down at the…
February 28, 2019
Theatre review: Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s Othello
Continuing its 2019 “season of villains,” the Long Beach Shakespeare Company (LBSC) offers an intensely powerful Shakespearean drama…
February 28, 2019
Performers in local comedy sketch show talk about their experiences
When local theater performer Zarina Hora witnessed improvisation group Held2gether’s sketch comedy show for the first time three…
February 26, 2019
Sketches 11 to include comedy performances about ‘unlikely’ Civil War soldier, ‘disturbing’ elementary art class
Long Beach Playhouse is teaming with improv-comedy program group Held2gether– Improv for Life next week for a production…
February 22, 2019
Theatre review: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
It is only in a musical that brings to life caricatures of British snootiness that the horror of…
February 20, 2019
Theatre review: Musical Theatre West’s Oliver! at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center
“Where is love?” Oliver sings as he escapes a group of cruel adults, only to find himself among…
February 15, 2019