Peruse playwright Will Eno’s bookcase and no doubt you’ll come across not only the usual Samuel Beckett suspects but also…
Perhaps no Long Beach theatre company is more unpredictable than its oldest, Long Beach Playhouse. I’ve been reviewing them for…
Misery, William Goldman’s theatrical adaptation of his screenplay of the Stephen King novel, is not the most unavoidably static script…
On the surface, it may seem the most natural thing in the world for a Shakespeare company to stage Hamlet,…
Since James Darrah took over as artistic director in 2021, it’s a matter of interpretation whether ambition or the lack…
It’s 1942, and with so many of our boys off fighting the Axis powers, the Oberon Playhouse is shuttered, precluding…
Simi, an “illegal” African immigrant, has been detained at the U.K.’s Brideswell Immigration Detention Center for 11 months when she…
By her own account, high-school senior Amy’s been a bad girl. Her unwanted pregnancy — which she’s willing to go…
Not sure how I missed Long Beach Landmark Theatre Company until now — they’ve been putting on shows three blocks…
It’s not so much that the dancing in director/choreographer Jeffry Denman’s An American in Paris is vigorous, elegant, clever, and…