Theater

Do the do at Civic Light Opera, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

Do the do at Civic Light Opera, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

The current buzz throughout the South Bay is next week’s anxiously awaited opening of Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities’ (CLOSBC) production of “Beehive: The ‘60s Musical” at Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Audience members will swarm to hear the six queens in the cast drone through memorable girls’ songs made famous by memorable girls (all named “Honey”) during the 1960s.

Theater Review: Les Misérables

Theater Review: Les Misérables

We have all heard of musicals whose advertising claims to “make us laugh, cry, and think.” On the contrary, “Les Misérables” is a musical known to make you cry, cry, and cry some more. At some points you may be [...]

Aerospace Players put on “The Producers”

Aerospace Players put on “The Producers”

Watch out Broadway, there’s a rising cast of singing and dancing… rocket scientists?

Theater preview: “The Sound of Music”

Theater preview: “The Sound of Music”

The hills of El Segundo are alive with the sound of music. Make that the softball diamond at Recreation Park, at least.

Fine-Tuning the Revolution

Fine-Tuning the Revolution

“Marcelo! You have a girl running away with the gate! I need a bench! Any bench! Just a bench! The crate should go to the left, no – the other left.”

“The Lieutenant of Inishmore”

“The Lieutenant of Inishmore”

This reviewer was skeptical from the start. “When I saw this play on Broadway I laughed harder than I thought possible,” notes Michael Ritchie, the Center Theatre Group’s artistic director.

Theater Review: South Pacific

Theater Review: South Pacific

The Lincoln Center’s Tony Award winning production of South Pacific arrives in Los Angeles.

A Bard in the hand

A Bard in the hand

CLOSBC makes its first attempt at Shakespeare with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ THESEUS: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! she lingers [...]