For those unfamiliar with melodrama, on opening night director Rob Young defined it as “basically a cartoon.” That’s not quite…
Groundhog Day is one of the more memorable comedies of the 1990s partly because of its novel premise: nasty weatherman…
It was approximately 75 seconds between my coming across Long Beach Playhouse’s audition notice for Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
After covering arts in Long Beach for, gawd, 17 years or whatever, somehow it wasn’t until this spring that I…
Right off the top I have to confess I am not a Fats Waller fan — and that’s kinda the…
For a quarter-century after Hedwig and the Angry Inch entered the Zeitgeist — first as a fin de siècle stage…
Hester (Victoria Dunn) lives on the streets with five children she’s had by five different men over the past 11…
If I had my way, right now you’d be reading a review of International City Theatre’s current show. The good,…
Times change. I’ve now seen three McDonagh plays at the Playhouse, two in the last three seasons. And while the…
Greggory Moore reflects that Lynn Nottage's Sweat, much like her previous work Intimate Apparel, failed to impress him, with confusing…