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Hard Reality for Local Theater in the Time of Pandemic

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist It may be different on Broadway and for a handful of behemoths in major…

5 years ago

Hard Reality for Local Theatre in the Time of Pandemic

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call columnist It may be different on Broadway and for a handful of behemoths in major…

6 years ago

“Psycho Beach Party”: Silly and Nothing But

By Greggory Mooore, Curtain Call Columnist I don’t know why, but in the mid ‘60s the beach-party movie was a…

6 years ago

“The Andrews Brothers” More Than the Sum of Its Middling WWII-era Songs

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist The Andrews brothers are 4F, meaning they can't directly join the fight against the…

6 years ago

“Ragtime”: Musical Theatre West Makes a Good Musical Great

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist Even without having read E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel Ragtime, it's clear a lot falls…

6 years ago

18th Annual “Pick of the Vine”: Lite Finish, Average Vintage

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call columnist It's a San Pedro tradition. Each January, Little Fish Theatre opens a new season…

6 years ago

New “King Arthur”: Half Baroque, Half Contemporary Political Commentary, Mixed Results

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist Don't know much about Henry Purcell's King Arthur? That's just as well for seeing…

6 years ago

Brisk “A Christmas Carol” Good to Give Your Dickens Fix

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Before A Christmas Story, before the classic claymation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, even before…

6 years ago

“Holiday Inn” a Perfect Performance of Typical Irving Berlin

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist Most movie musicals are adaptations of shows originating on the stage. Not so with…

6 years ago

Youthful Cal Rep Movement Piece Doesn’t Deliver as Advertised

By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call columnist Walk into a show with a title like MOVE: The History of a Hand,…

6 years ago