Curtain Call

Random Happening. Curtain Up: San Pedro’s Fred Crawford Stars in a Rollicking Vaudeville Variety Revue

Enjoy ‘Golden Age Hollywood-style” laughs, impressions, and tap dancing. Whether you know him from his time as a barista at…

3 months ago

“Modern-verse” staging of “Julius Caesar” questionable but timely

Each summer Shakespeare by the Sea tours traditionalist stagings of plays by their eponym throughout the Southland. And while Year…

4 months ago

“Ada and the Engine” fails to capitalize on compelling subject, good casting

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was a visionary, a maths prodigy to the nth degree who, in the first…

4 months ago

Hide & Hide

Though unknown at first, this story plays with time with a little reinvention sprinkled in, making for a magical realism…

4 months ago

It’s Year 7 of soundpedro — and you still haven’t been?

At the apex of San Pedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center is a rejuvenating space on its most ordinary day, an…

5 months ago

One-time “reality TV” star shows real talent in one-woman play

I don’t know who the fuck Bekah Martinez is. Google says “Former TV personality” — The Bachelor, 2018. I can’t…

5 months ago

“The Library of Maps” locates Long Beach Opera at a peak

We are on a ship at sea. The captain has just died. A new mapmaker has been born unto a…

5 months ago

Long Beach Symphony meets MTV for season’s final Pops concert

What do you get when you cross a symphony orchestra with 1980s MTV staples? What sounds like the setup for…

6 months ago

From Jealousy to Redemption: A Preview of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale in Modern Verse Translation

Los Angeles’ Skylight Theatre Company premieres Young’s latest production, The Winter's Tale, the first LA production of a Play On…

6 months ago

Musical Theatre West’s “Into the Woods”: Smart art, well-delivered

Speculations about who’s “the GOAT” — greatest of all time — are a bit silly even when it comes to…

6 months ago