Volume XXI     Number 10
May 17, 2013

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Arts & Entertainment
Review: Long Beach Opera Performances
By Ben Miles
 Long Beach Opera, founded in 1979, is the longest-running professional opera company in the Greater Los Angeles Area. As small as it is in size (compared to other big city opera companies), its scope of production is remarkable – ranging from rarely staged pieces to the bold assaying of more renowned ...
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Improvising Through Life with Laughs
By Elizabeth Pose
 What do the Groundlings, The Second City and Held2gether have in common? They are all improv companies. And, yes folks, you don’t have to travel to Los Angeles to learn the art of comedy because Long Beach has a company of its own. Darren Held, Held2gether’s creator, began the company in 2009. “I ...
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A&E News Briefs

 Musical Theatre West presents the benefit concert of “Mack & Mabel,” starring Davis Gaines as Mack Sennett on May 20 at 8 p.m. Famed silent film director Mack Sennett reflects on his artistic legacy – his Bathing Beauties, the Keystone Cops, and of course, Mabel Normand, the waitress from Flatbush ...
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