Curtain Call

Slight “Lobby Hero” manages some conversational charm

Jeff (Trevor Hart) is a 27-year-old dishonorably discharged Navy vet taking the graveyard shift at a condo lobby for a…

4 months ago

“The Buddy Holly Story” is all about the music, which this production gets right

The Buddy Holly story probably doesn’t get told on either screen or stage were it not for the tragedy that…

4 months ago

Enjoyable ensemble performance makes “Witch” wholly worthwhile

Have you been feeling like all is lost? Think our capitalistic reality is so far gone that maybe the only…

4 months ago

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…

4 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…

5 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…

5 months ago

Hide & Hide

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

6 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…

6 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…

7 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…

7 months ago