In 2017, when I first saw a production of A Doll’s House, Part 2, it might have been, I dunno, 20 years since I’d first experienced the Henrik Ibsen protofeminist classic that serves as prequel for Lukas Hnath’s 2017 imagining of where Nora might be 15 ye... See more
A Bible story — ho-hum. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice — clunky and populist. “A contemporary twist inspired by some of the biggest music icons of the last two decades,” says the press release, “ such as Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Adam Levine” — purveyors o... See more
In my early 20s — a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — I counted The Importance of Being Earnest as a fave. But well before turning 30, all that verbal slapstick left me cold — and so, decades later, I was planning to skip Long Beach Shakespeare Co... See more
For Mahatma Gandhi, violent resistance is never justified. “If there ever could be a justifiable war, in the name of and for humanity,” he wrote November 1938, “war against Germany to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race would be completely just... See more
In the middle of May 27’s day-long event to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Queen Mary ’s maiden voyage, a crowd gathered on the foredeck. “Listen, we know that isn’t a thing you do to a ship — we get it,” said Dylan Matteson, director of experien... See more