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By Greggory Moore The Museum of Latin American Art’s first-ever theatrical event was business as usual for Alive Theatre, who in their short existence have formed a habit of making non-traditional venues fit to their purposes, purposes that have ranged from the high literary to burlesque and camp. On March 29 it was José Rivera’s [...]

“28 Plays Later” = 21st-Century Vaudeville

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 [...]

Once Upon a Time and a Very Good Play It Was: Alive Theatre’s “Lucia Mad”

By Greggory Moore (originally published in The District Weekly — www.thedistrictweekly.com) If you are turned off by fictional reweavings of true events, and if on top of that you cut your literary teeth on James Joyce and consider Samuel Beckett a personal hero, aside from running the risk of being accused of pretentious snob, you [...]

An Incongruous Sunday Afternoon at {open}

( Events andMusic andReviews )

by Greggory Moore Here’s yet another installment in the effort to keep you (whomever you are) informed about the kind of thing that goes down in the southern portion of our fair city (or at {open}, at least; I don’t seem to take in a lot of music elsewhere). First up was Pwrfl Power, a [...]

An Open Letter to Long Beach Opera, et al.

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 [...]

Opera at the Belmont Pool

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 [...]

Great Music on Fourth Street

( Events andMusic andReviews )

By Greggory Moore Two of my favorite Long Beach bands played within days and feet of each other last week: on Tuesday The Year Zero played at {open}, then on Saturday oto played at Portfolio. As far as I know, The Year Zero have played as everything from a duo to a quintet; and Tuesday [...]

That Feeling Of Timelessness:
A conversation with Lili de la Mora

by Sander Roscoe Wolff Lili de la Mora will be performing with The Year Zero at {open} at 9 PM on Tuesday, January 29th. Sharing the bill is Katie The Pest, and Yellow Fever from Texas. On the 31st they’ll be playing at The Prospector with Forcefield On and Two Guns. Over the course of [...]

Jonathan Richman Performed at {open}…

…and You Missed It By Greggory Moore I had never heard of Jonathan Richman—by name, anyway (see below)—and dropped by {open} on December 1 really just to say hello. The show had begun promptly at (or near) its scheduled 8 p.m. start time and was already underway as I stepped through the door. Although I [...]

Heavy Metal Vomit Party

A conversation with Hooray for Humans founders Robert Garza, Bryan Schnelle, and Michael Wysong. by Sander Roscoe Wolff Hooray for Humans is a Long Beach based art collective, created by Robert Garza, Bryan Schnelle, and Michael Wysong. What started as a simple plan to document informal conversations that first evolved into podcast interviews with local [...]