Because Long Beach Opera’s 48th season features their biggest-ever bill of fare, perhaps it’s fitting to start with what director…
One year ago, the inaugural LBsoundbrowse was an experiment. Could Long Beach’s main shopping and dining drag successfully accommodate the…
You may not have seen the film, but you know the premise, so deeply is the legacy of 1968’s Night…
Over the course of three sparsely programmed seasons during which four scheduled shows were cancelled, Long Beach Opera needed a…
When it comes to men, Dora (Whitney Ellis) is accommodating to a fault. Married milkman Kevin (Matthew Anderson) is merely…
You can rely on Martin McDonagh. Black humor. Sardonicism. Impending menace. Clever twists. Simple phrases reworked ‘til they rise above…
Is Long Beach Shakespeare Company having an identity crisis? This year, five of their 12 offerings are live radio shows,…
In 2017, when I first saw a production of A Doll’s House, Part 2, it might have been, I dunno,…
A Bible story — ho-hum. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice — clunky and populist. “A contemporary twist inspired by…
In my early 20s — a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — I counted The Importance…