If you’re wondering whether the hype is real about “Kimberly Akimbo” – which won five Tony Awards following its 2022 Broadway run,...

“Babbitt” is playwright Joe DiPietro’s 2023 adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel that contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in...

Road Theatre Company’s “Robbin, from the Hood” opens with an elderly Percy Woods (William L. Warren) browsing TV channels from his...

Let’s cut to the chase: if you’re considering seeing Shakespeare Theatre Company ’s (STC) “Comedy of Errors”—continuing at STC’s Klein...

“The Skin of Our Teeth”—continuing through Sept. 29—is a weird play excellently executed by A Noise Within (ANW) with compelling acting...

The Classical Theatre of Harlem ’s (CTH) new “Memnon”—continuing at the Getty Villa ’s outdoor amphitheater through Sept. 28—ingeniously...

Before “The Double V” story begins, one of the actors steps forward as a Cal State Long Beach grad student to say how his grandfather...

Though Geffen Playhouse’s new artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote “The Brothers Size” 20 years ago, the play resonates just as...

If you find yourself in London within the next couple of months, treat yourself to the doubly delightful confection “The Comedy of...

Though “Antony & Cleopatra” at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is delivered in two languages – spoken English and British Sign Language (BSL)...

American playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse has added magic fairy dust to the “Peter Pan” musical in its recent Broadway...

The 2022 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1971 “Company” soars at the Hollywood Pantages through Aug. 18....

The young and talented cast of Musical Theatre West’s (MTW) “Disney’s Newsies” – a feisty, fun musical with a Marxist message – makes...

Following its Tony Award-winning success on Broadway in 2022, and a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for writer Michael R. Jackson, the musical “A...

This review was also published in the Long Beach Watchdog on June 25, 2024. It seems likely that whomever we elect to our highest office...

The Troubadour Theater Company doesn't miss a beat with its latest music-meets-classic story mashup, “Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra,”...

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s (STC) “The Matchbox Magic Flute” – continuing at STC's Klein Theatre through June 16 – makes opera...

The 2022 Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” – its touring production continuing at Segerstrom Center for the Arts through June 9 – has...

In Benjamin Benne's “Alma” – a gem of a play extended at Chance Theater through May 31 – a mother who immigrated from Mexico 17 years...

It’s a dark Minnesota winter in 1934, during the Depression. Several souls shelter in a guesthouse around Thanksgiving, their deep...