San Pedro has an affinity for scary stories and mysteries.
Several years ago, Long Beach Playhouse staged Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant but devilishly difficult Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet…
Tom Stoppard may have written the four or five greatest plays of the last half-century, but for cultural significance there’s…
For all the bad that’s come from COVID-19, there’s a sliver of a silver lining for International City Theatre. Originally…
Shakespeare by the Sea has made an art of fitting their namesake’s plays into a runtime of almost exactly two…
Maybe you’ve heard, but there’s this clusterfuck called COVID-19, and it’s been an absolute bitch to the theatre world. Although…
An Auspicious Start to Long Beach Opera’s New Era In my 10 years reviewing Long Beach Opera, two productions tower…
To state the obvious, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a painful reality for theatre, forcing many companies unable or unwilling…
It’s a promising premise: Orson Welles’s Mercury Players reunite to perform a live musical retelling of their legendary “War of…
With rare exceptions, COVID-19 has all but put a stop to live theatre. But Shakespeare by the Sea would be…