LBFF Fundraising Event with DJ Hale
Ahead of the inaugural Long Beach Film Festival, this special fundraising event features an exclusive evening with filmmaker DJ Hale of Rescued. The intimate event...
Art Theatre Long Beach
Upcoming Shows
Again Again
Again Again is a feature-length romance and science fiction film that follows Agatha, a woman who has spent ten years reliving the same day before...
Downbeat
Downbeat is a 91-minute independent drama directed by Danny Madden and produced by Vanishing Angle. The film follows a musician caught between his personal life...
Long Beach Film Festival
The inaugural Long Beach Film Festival brings four independent feature films and their filmmakers to the historic Art Theatre Long Beach over two days. The...
Rescued
Rescued is a 126-minute drama written, directed by, and starring Long Beach filmmaker DJ Hale. Filmed in Long Beach, the drama follows a man experiencing...
Ugly Cry
Ugly Cry is an 84-minute psychological horror film that follows an aspiring actor whose devastating audition sends her spiraling into a dangerous obsession with perfection....
Review: APPLAUSE at The Group Rep
Applause has too much heart and is simply too much fun to be bogged down by its shortcomings, so audiences should take advantage of catching this gem while they can.…
Review: OC's Segerstrom Center Welcomes HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
In the fantastical, visually-enchanting stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD—the theatrical continuation of J.K. Rowling's beloved magical saga—the idea of revisiting the past is embraced as its central theme, which in turn shifts the focus away from the mischievous school adventures tha…
Review: MUSE/IQUE DEFIANTLY JONI: A SINGER/SONGWRITER BARES HER SOUL at Mark Taper Forum
The concert offered an intimate tribute to Joni Mitchell's unique genius, offering a revelatory look at the cultural milieu and musical streams that fed into her art, and then poured out of her Laurel Canyon home and into her unique ways of mixing other genres and artists into her music – or inspi…
Review: ANATOMY OF A BACK by Kick Boom Theater at Electric Lodge
John Wuchte and his Kick Boom Theater ensemble of five actors and two onstage musicians (Wuchte on percussion and Sarah Green on guitar) continue their exploration of live percussion scoring the actors’ movement, gestures and stylized dialogue during Anatomy of a Back at the Electric Lodge in Veni…
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Musical Theatre West
Musical Theatre West's brand new presentation of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT marks the fifth time the 74-season-old institution is revisiting this ubiquitous musical, this time starring hunky Broadway alum and America's Got Talent standout Brian Justin Crum. For all intents and purp…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Wisteria Theater
Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.…
Review: MEXODUS at Pasadena Playhouse
When we hum along, dance, applaud or whatever (folks in the up close Get Down section probably have more opportunity to, you know, get down), the connection to the story and to its themes feels that much more immediate.…
Review: PAINTED PONIES Starring Rachel Sorsa at Ruskin Group Theatre
Sorsa’s extraordinary talent in enveloping Pam as if she was inside her soul, along with Elina de Santos minimally invasive direction by keeping Sorsa seated on the couch center stage to tell her story into her cell phone, will keep your sharp focus on Ian McRae’s monologue honoring human resili…
Review: IF/THEN at the Zephyr Theatre
What did our critic think of IF/THEN at Zephyr Theatre?…
Review: World Premiere E=MC² EINSTEIN THE MUSICAL Often Trades Depth for Silly Songs
I want to praise the quality of the large cast for their dedication to bringing so many authentic characters to life onstage while changing costumes, accents and physicality often in the blink of an eye. But with so much interesting history to be explored about a man who was often quoted, and misquo…
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Riptide Film Festival James Armstrong Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
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Cabaret (FILM) The Plaza Theatre (9/06-9/06) |
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A Faery Hunt and Their Animal Friends Kindred Spirits Care Farm (11/08-11/08) |
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Cynthia Erivo: Let Me Sing To You Hollywood Bowl (10/15-10/15) |
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha La Jolla Playhouse (7/28-8/09) |