{"id":11945,"date":"2020-01-10T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000006213"},"modified":"2020-01-10T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:17:10","slug":"today-you-should-see-megan-dolan-in-megan-dolans-lemur-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/today-you-should-see-megan-dolan-in-megan-dolans-lemur-mom","title":{"rendered":"Today, you should&#8230; see Megan Dolan in Megan Dolan&#8217;s &#8216;Lemur Mom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>FRIDAY, JAN. 10<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Lemur Mom&quot; Promo Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-fB3fG0CCo?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though this show was born when Megan Dolan\u2019s son was diagnosed with Asperger\u2019s, the one-woman performance is not really about her son or Aspergers. Rather, Dolan deals with the pressure to measure up that all mothers, fathers, well, just about everyone of every age feels these days, attempting to live up to some false narrative created and perpetuated by social media and reruns of \u201cThe Doris Day Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dolan touches on all the biggies of feeling small: the guilt, the shame, the confusion, the doctor who\u2019s had some work done to their face. And, yes, a careful reading of this does reveal that this is a one-person performance, a type of entertainment that is usually either transformative or gawd awful. The fact that we\u2019re featuring it should tell you where we think this one lands. But if you don\u2019t believe us\u2014and the fact that you don\u2019t hurts, we\u2019re not going to lie\u2014then listen to Anne Lamott who knows a thing or two about entertaining confessionals, who said the show \u201chas everything I love: humor, humanity, and heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It does that, all of it delivered by Dolan, a Long Beach resident and Cal State Long Beach grad who has written and performed stories for all manner of outfits including \u201cThe Moth\u201d Her solo show, \u201cSnack\u201d won an Encore! Producers Award at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s good. It\u2019s good. Go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another great thing:<\/strong>\u00a0We just recorded an episode of \u201cCan You Hear Me, Long Beach?\u201d with Dolan. She\u2019s a hoot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giving us a moment\u2019s pause:<\/strong>\u00a0What\u2019s\u00a0<em>our<\/em>\u00a0spirit animal?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLemur Mom\u201d runs Friday through Sunday at the CSULB Players Theatre on the southeast corner of the CSULB campus, located at 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Performances are at 8 p.m on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. For more information or tickets ($20) click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemurmom.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolan deals with the pressure to measure up that all mothers, fathers, well, just about everyone of every age feels these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":70786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7950,2],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2890],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-do-this","tag-the-7","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}