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Lady explorers do Time Warp in On the Verge at Long Beach Playhouse
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer On the Verge, playwright Eric Overmyer’s extra-dimensional romp of a Victorian-era discovery…
August 20, 2010
Goodbye, Limone. We’ll miss you!
Trattoria Limone closed last weekend. I shed a tear for this one. Couldn’t help it. I’ll just come…
August 6, 2010
Darkly comic Smoke & Mirrors reflects smoldering twists at Long Beach Playhouse
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer Once you’ve seen ten or twenty murder mysteries, they start to become…
August 3, 2010
Founding Fathers merit fireworks in Musical Theatre West’s 1776
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer In 16 years of reviewing theater, I’ve given no more than three…
July 16, 2010
Colorful characters, flowery plot in The Violet Hour at LB Playhouse
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer I sometimes grow weary of characters who “like to hear themselves talk.”…
July 9, 2010
Audience gives well-deserved ovation to ICT’s beautiful A Shayna Maidel
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer A shayna maidel— in Yiddish it means “a pretty girl.” Imagine how…
June 25, 2010
Awesome Sushi says it like it is
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer Not to make the obvious play on words, but Awesome Sushi is,…
May 21, 2010
Killer cast in LB Playhouse production has audiences dyin’ with laughter
Wanna forget about politics, the economy, natural disasters and all of life’s other stresses? See a performance of…
May 7, 2010
The Factory’s cuisine is definitely not off an assembly line
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer Call me uncool, for I have never before heard the term “gastrobar.”…
April 16, 2010
LB Playhouse brings vintage Agatha Christie to its stage with ‘The Hollow’
By Vicki Paris Goodman Entertainment Writer Famous fictitious sleuth Hercule Poirot makes no appearance in this rendition of…
March 19, 2010