Drama productions return to Long Beach high schools
After a nearly two-year hiatus, Long Beach Poly is putting on “Shrek: The Musical” at the Andy Osman Auditorium on campus with a run that began Thursday and ends with two performances on Saturday.
‘Music was our way out’: Long Beach actress Karole Foreman featured in play ‘Blues in the Night’
Long Beach resident Karole Forman performs in the play and says “Blues in the Night” not only expresses the struggles of Black actors but also shows how music could be an effective coping mechanism.
Open Call for Budding Musical Theatre Writers Accepting Submissions Through February
Walt Disney Imagineering and New Musicals Inc. (NMI) are looking for new talent ages 18 to 26 in musical theatre writing.
Celebrate Gene Kelly’s Legacy on Screen and Off with These Three Events in Long Beach
Musical Theatre West, the Carpenter Performing Arts Center and The Art Theatre will present three unique perspectives of the dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, film director, the American legend, Gene Kelly over the next month.
REVIEW: Musical Theatre West’s ‘Big Fish’ Is One Out of Water
Making its West Coast premier at Musical Theater West after a short-lived run on Broadway last year, it is with a heavy heart that I report that this adaptation of the source material is far smaller than the sum of its larger-than-life parts.
‘What’s Your Damage?’: CSULB Graduate Finds Success Off-Broadway with ‘Heathers: The Musical’
When Tara Sickmeier graduated from Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) with a degree in Film & Electronic Arts, little did she know that she would eventually harken back to her initial major of Theatre—and face the biggest theatre audience in the world: the one along the Great White Way as she produces Heathers: The Musical.
An Intimate If Uneven ‘Next to Normal’ at Cal Rep
Cal Rep’s current production of Next to Normal offers a unique look at this work, with the imaginative staging, unconventional casting, and boldness of vision. Yet for all of this current production’s inventiveness, there is also a sense of unevenness on display here that doesn’t sink the ship by any means, but makes it take on more water than necessary.
”S Wonderful’ at Musical Theatre West ‘S Horrible
Mounted by Musical Theater West as the second-to-last show of their 61st (!) season, ‘S Wonderful attempts to give a long list of classic, beautiful Gershwin songs a new home. Unfortunately, that new home is more suited for assisted living than anything inspired or in alignment with the great songs that serve as this new “musical”’s source material.
REVIEW: ICT’s Cast for ‘Flyin’ West’ Dominates Melodrama
The setting for Flyin’ West suggests a gripping, necessary story: set in the real-life town of Nicodemus, Kansas, shortly after the Civil War, the play tells the fictional tale of a group of black women who left their homes in the South to set out west and start new lives.
Hey Mister, Strike up The Band: ‘The Music Man’ At Music Theatre West
When it comes to The Music Man at Musical Theatre West: take the children, take the grandparents, take anyone who doesn’t roll their eyes at the idea of seeing a great American Musical. It is satirical, light-hearted and tuneful all at once and it deserves to be cherished.