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THE MISGUIDED ANGELS OF OUR NATURE

June 24,

International City Theatre's 'Facing East' PHOTO by SHASHIN DESAI Andrew is dead. His parents hover over his interred body, trying to come

to grips with why their 24-year-old son, "a beautiful man" in the eyes

of all who knew him, felt the need to kill himself. It's a question

whose answer is not even slightly elusive, and [...]

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SOME RAINBOWS CAST SHADOWS

June 17,

The big/little world of the Garage Theatre's 'Babylon Heights' PHOTO by JAMI JOHNSON Thanks to its cult following, any work incorporating The Wizard of Oz is

bound to have an audience, even if the rationale is mere curiosity or

nostalgia. Authors of any such work can't help but know this, and so the

danger is that they [...]

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ZING OF FIRE!

June 10,

More hillbilly Lawrence Welk than 'Walk the Line,' La Mirada's Johnny Cash dazzles nonetheless Dyed-in-the-wool Johnny Cash fanatics usually don't like anyone

singing Cash but Cash—and those obsessive hipsters would certainly never

buy tickets to a showcase of his music unless other woolly hipsters

were singing it. But if you're a moderate Cash admirer, who occasionally

[...]

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STOOL PIGEON

May 27,

'Singing Jailbirds: The Musical' is an earnest failure PHOTO by JOHN MATERRA It takes a lot of chutzpah to make a socialist musical based on a work

by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer—especially a musical about labor

unions. Theoretically, it can work—Evita had a bit of that in it, after

all, coupled with a much more interesting love [...]

Tags: dock workers, San Pedro, singing jailbirds, socialism, Theater, unions, upton sinclair, warner grand

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QUEEN OF THE GAYS!

May 13,

Kathy Griffin reigns supreme, uniting gays and straights under a big, pinkish tent Kathy Griffin loves the gays. In fact, she claims she's a gay man—at

least that's her explanation for her obsession with kitschy, campy, pop

culture, and her ability to verbally bitch slap just about anyone,

including the almighty Oprah. (Of course, Griffin's also [...]

Tags: comedy, costa mesa, kathy griffin, ocpac, Performance, pride

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WORLD WIDE WEB

May 13,

Performance artist Shyamala Moorty faces your fears PHOTO by JEN CLEARY Long Beach-based performance artist Shyamala Moorty will appear in TeAda

Productions' seventh annual TeAdaworks: Healing Aloud festival. Along

with other performance artists (Maria G. Martinez, Marcella Pabros-Clark

and Raquel Salinas), Moorty has been commissioned to create and perform

a piece—in partnership with various community immigrant health [...]

Tags: imagined life studios, Long Beach, performance art, syamala moorty

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LIES LIES LIES, YEAH

April 29,

Little Fish Theatre swims through the emotional waters of 'Betrayal'

PHOTO COURTESY LITTLE FISH THEATRE It's always a risky endeavor when a small theater company takes on a

familiar and much-lauded (and criticized) work by a master—and depending

on the actors and what the space demands, audiences can often be left

feeling empty-handed. San Pedro's Little [...]

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DRIP DROP

April 1,

An appreciation for one man's perspiration PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GARAGE THEATRE You can watch Tragedy: A Tragedy and come away wowed by Will Eno's

quick, playful and ultimately very moving script—he had me at the first

real line in the show, with "It's the worst world in the world here

tonight, Frank"—or charmed by its pleasantly [...]

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WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT

March 4,

Enter the absurd world of Alive Theatre PHOTO by JONATHAN LEWIS The Alive Theatre gang are totally those kids you knew in high school

who were constantly being laughed at, not with. You remember: the dorky

drama nerds who thought it would be a plumb fantastic idea to bust out a

little commedia dell'arte during the lunch [...]

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PROOF OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE!

March 4,

Now orbiting Lily Tomlin PHOTO by BRETT PATTERSON Lily Tomlin is one of those people you can listen to for hours. Really.

Even on the phone—which is how I got to listen to her the other day. And

while some comedians might be cold and guarded off stage, when you talk

to Tomlin, you get exactly what [...]

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