THE WHINE OF THE ANIMALS Long Beach Opera continued its season-long devotion to the work of Pauline Oliveros with El Relicario De Los Animales (The Shrine of the Animals), from 1979, with tw…
EAST WEST PLAYERS PULLS OUT ALL THE SHOGUNS FOR A MUSICAL THAT CALLS FOR INTIMACY On Sunday, East West Players opened their new production of Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim (music and…
BLOOD AND RANCH DRESSING In December of 2020, the world was still in the grip of COVID-19's unpredictable terror. Moderna and Pfizer had just released their vaccines, but supply was scarce a…
YOU COULD HEAR THESE PEOPLE SING, ALL RIGHT First performed in Shanghai in 2013, the Hollywood Bowl hosted a new installment of The Music of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, and More: Boublil a…
THE LAST FIVE YEARS AT SIERRA MADRE CAN BE SEEN IN DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS Last weekend, Sierra Madre Playhouse opened what seems like a bewildering number of performance configurations of th…
ATTEND THIS TALE: IT'S MURDER When A Noise Within, one of LA's best companies, which specializes in classical theater, announced its current season, what most excited me by far was their dec…
TINY LITTLE TOWN OPENS WITH A BANG, BUT GETS CORRUPTED BY INCOHESIVE STYLES Theatre Movement Bazaar's Tiny Little Town, a new musical comedy now playing at the Broadwater Main Stage, starts …
TECHNICAL ISSUES ASIDE, THIS NEW MUSICAL IS FULL OF HEART The Right is Ours!, a world premiere new musical which opened yesterday at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, tells the story of the friend…