Curtain Call

Blurry “Dear Dead Drug Lord” Unable to Score High

So four high-school girls climb into a treehouse and attempt to conjure the ghost of Pablo Escobar....  No, not a…

2 years ago

With superfab stagecraft, meta mini “Ben Hur” transcends the silly (and the silly ain’t bad)

Ben Hur: An Epic Comedy of Small Proportions, combines two standard comedy tropes (thus proving it don’t say comedy in…

2 years ago

Heart of “Marilyn, Mom & Me” Wrapped in Awkwardness

Clearly, Luke Yankee loves his mother, actress Eileen Heckart. But she was hard on him when he tried to follow…

2 years ago

Fun and Craft Carry the Day on “42nd Street”

42nd Street is an odd duck, in that it turns a 1933 film about putting together a stage musical —…

2 years ago

Sensoriful Part Opera, Part Installation Not Fully What It Aspires to Be

Labeled “a poetic monodrama for soprano, chamber group and electronics that explores the body as island, synaesthesia and the nature…

2 years ago

Little Fish Ends an Era with a “Pick of the Vine” that Harvests New Beginnings

Every January, Little Fish Theatre opens the year with a staging of new short plays culled from hundreds of submissions.…

2 years ago

Little Fish Theatre Forced to Leave the Only Pond They’ve Ever Known

Come February, that destination will cease to exist, as the sale of Little Fish’s unique split-level theatre space at 777…

2 years ago

As Ever, Long Beach Playhouse’s “A Christmas Carol” Warms the Heart in Our Cold, Cruel World

An experiment: every December go to a traditionalist take on A Christmas Carol put on by a particular theatre company,…

2 years ago

Culture TALKS! Arts District Presents Staged Reading of Patrick Stewart’s Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

This staged reading will feature local luminaries, such as Councilman Tim McOsker CD15,  actors from Little Fish/Shakespeare by the Sea,…

2 years ago

Little Fish Theatre Forced to Leave the Only Pond They’ve Ever Known

In 2002, Little Fish Theatre were little more than hatchlings when they transformed an industrial space into what would become…

2 years ago