Tom Jacobson’s ‘Bunbury’ tries rewriting the classics
Playwright Tom Jacobson’s Bunbury, on now at Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theatre, is a tantalizing “What if . . . ?”—asking a question that it wisely never quite answers.
This being a play, it takes a while before we finally hear it, from the title character (an admirably overwrought Stephen [...]

Two storied playwrights and a relative newcomer make for must-see theatricality

“BRITANNICUS” by KEITH IAN POLAKOFF
Considering that across-town theaters are staging plays by Nobel literature laureates and pillars of European drama, it’s got be a bit humbling for Tom Jacobson to see his name in lights on Long Beach Playhouse’s marquee.
But while Harold Pinter and Jean [...]

And Long Beach Playhouse gets a new director
Tuesday’s Long Beach City Council meeting was a busy one–in part, no doubt because with the holidays upon us, the Council won’t meet again until Jan. 8.
One of the many projects it approved during the last meeting of the old year was the much-discussed Shoreline Gateway project: a [...]