Anita W. Harris
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Children’s Theatre of Long Beach now offers fall classes from jazz dance to stage combat (opens the original)
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Children who love to play pretend (and what kid doesn’t?) can harness that energy and develop their confidence through the fall lineup of courses at the Children’s Theatre of Long Beach. The theater is now offering a variety of fall performance classes beginning Sept. 28 in its new location at the Los Altos United Methodist Church, 5950 E. Willow St., Long Beach. The nonprofit theater company has offered after-school and weekend programs for over a decade under the leadership of educator, choreo
Historic Bembridge House hosts a teatime trio of one-act plays (opens the original)
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Welcome to Theater News, a regular column by longtime reviewer Anita W. Harris. Look for it most Thursdays. Or sign up for our Eat. See. Do. newsletter to get it in your inbox. If you caught “Tea with Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice” at The Bembridge House this past May, you may recall a delightful tea service followed by an abridged version of Shakespeare’s play set throughout the historic Queen Anne-style Victorian home. The same team is staging another immersive theatrical experience at t
A play about standing on your morals during McCarthy’s Red Scare hits home today in International City Theatre's 'Conscience' (opens the original)
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Welcome to Theater News, a regular column by longtime reviewer Anita W. Harris. Look for it most Thursdays. Or sign up for our Eat. See. Do. newsletter to get it in your inbox. They say history repeats itself. Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro’s 2020 play “Conscience” at International City Theatre brings that home in profound ways. In 1950, Sen. Joe McCarthy — whose alcoholic boorishness is well embodied by Jon Root in this production — publicly announced he had a list of dozens of card-carr
Theater News: Long Beach Playhouse’s ‘Hangmen’ brings a dark comedy to close out summer (opens the original)
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People are still executed for committing crimes in some places in the world, including here. In England, the preferred method for capital punishment was hanging, though it was officially banned in 1965 and effectively ended in 1969. Before that, though, hanging people apparently took some skill. Harry Wade, the “second-best hangman in England,” is the focus of Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s award-winning 2015 dark comedy “Hangmen,” at the Long Beach Playhouse through Sept. 26. While the play
Theater Review: A modernized ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ brings enthusiasm and an excellent lead (opens the original)
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The Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s current production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” brings a youthful take on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play. The play itself is witty and charming, but the young, mostly female cast infuses it with modern inflections and gestures, boldly having fun with the material and making it their own. It helps that director Renee Schwarz bravely added a play-within-a-play dimension to the show, in which a troupe of contemporary actors is actually rehearsing “Cyrano de Bergerac,” sl
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