Kevin Cody / June 9, 2013 7:51 pm
The Belasco Theater Company presented an outdoor preview of its upcoming production of “Bye Bye Birdie during the past weekend’s Hermosa Beach Art Walk at the Hermosa Beach Community Center.
Bondo Wyszpolski / June 9, 2013 5:00 am
The opening night audience for “The Scottsboro Boys” seemed to enjoy the show, but I think that the creators have tried to pull a fast one on us, so I’m going to play Devil’s Advocate.
Bondo Wyszpolski / May 27, 2013 4:23 am
Herald Loomis is in limbo. With his young daughter in tow, he’s been searching for his wife whom he hasn’t seen in ten years.
Bondo Wyszpolski / March 16, 2013 5:00 am
Television actress Rosa Blasi is a true beauty – sensuously radiant and voluptuous.
Bondo Wyszpolski / February 15, 2013 5:00 pm
A play with music about the pre-Fab Four is at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Bondo Wyszpolski / February 2, 2013 6:30 am
Experimental and obscure operas have been finding a port of refuge with Long Beach Opera for nearly 35 years.
Bondo Wyszpolski / December 26, 2012 8:32 pm
This is the other splashy musical that takes place aboard an ocean liner – the one that doesn’t strike an iceberg.
Bondo Wyszpolski / December 22, 2012 2:51 pm
Bombs aren’t just going off in Baghdad; there’s a big one set to explode in Palm Springs, year 2004, in Jon Robin Baitz’s Pulitzer Prize finalist, “Other Desert Cities.” At the Taper through Jan.
Bondo Wyszpolski / December 8, 2012 8:19 pm
One could say it began with a magic lamp and perhaps a flying carpet or two.
Bondo Wyszpolski / November 7, 2012 4:04 pm
Theresa Rebeck is a smart, hip writer, with an ability to create ensemble pieces á la “Carnage,” as we previously witnessed in “Poor Behavior” and now in “Seminar.” What all of these works depict, in a kind of high-brow soap opera-ish manner, are alert, with-it and well-to-do people being tested and coming apart at the seams.
Bondo Wyszpolski / November 2, 2012 8:23 pm
Based on the colorful and over-the-top movie by John Waters, the brash and bold musical “Hairspray” is something we’d have expected from James Blackman and the Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities.
Bondo Wyszpolski / September 3, 2012 4:20 pm
Although the terminus of Mark Rothko’s impassioned and tumultuous life is but presciently alluded to in John Logan’s pugilistic “Red,” the script resonates because of it.
Tom Fitt / August 10, 2012 3:18 pm
“Tradition” is more than one of the many hit songs in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, it’s the essence and spirit of the story.
Bondo Wyszpolski / July 19, 2012 12:52 pm
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back; but this time it’s with a horse.
Bondo Wyszpolski / May 25, 2012 7:00 am
The first surprise, after one has sat down in the theater, is to look up and realize that most of the auditorium has been draped in black, as if in mourning.