By Greggory Moore If you happened to check out both the Gazette and OC Weekly reviews of Alive Theatre’s 28 Plays Later, you’re probably very confused. As the Gazette has it, this is maybe the single greatest theatre experience ever, while the OC Weekly wants to warn you off of wasting precious minutes of your [...]
To all concerned with Long Beach Opera’s production of Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Orpheus and Euridice”: Greetings. I attended the February 19, 2008, performance “Orpheus and Euridice”. Let me blow right past a heartfelt but admittedly generic “Bravo!” and mention a small number of the specific things for which I’d like to commend you: *The score [...]
By Greggory Moore For three nights in February, Long Beach Opera is mounting a bold production of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool. Recently arrived from his native New York and sitting in a Sunset Beach diner, Gordon quotes from the libretto and reflects on the circumstances surrounding the [...]
“Three” Site-specific installation by John Hillis Sanders June 20– Aug 20, 2006 Unit E Gallery 117 Linden Ave # E Long Beach, CA 90802 Gallery Hours: By appointment (562)432-6888 Opening Reception at Utopia Saturday June 24, 3 – 6 pm “Three” Video and Photographs are available for viewing at Utopia Mon – Fri 11:00 am [...]
by Sander Roscoe Wolff At last Saturday’s Last Saturday event in the East Village Arts District, I wandered around and shot some video. I edited it down to about 5 minutes, and you can watch a rather large but low-res version of it here. The excitement was palpable as I wandered East on Broadway toward [...]
We’re fortunate to have many wonderful performance venues here in Long Beach. The Carpenter Center is certainly one of them. They recently announced their ’06-’07 lineup: The new season captures the magic, beauty, and exhilaration of the world’s cultures, and theatre’s ability to transport us to far away places. Celebrate with us the resilience of [...]
By Greggory Moore If all politics is local (as was once asserted by former House Speaker “Tip” O’Neill), it is the actions on the streets that agglomerate to form the whole of our political reality. With this in mind, on May 6 {open} hosted a screening of Street Fight, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the [...]