Featuring two one-act plays by Harold Pinter: "Party Time" and "The Lover" Paul Marius (Terry), seated, and Michelle Ghatan (Dusty) in "Party Time," part of "Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter" at Odyssey Theatre (Photo by Jacques Lorch) The Odyssey Theatre is hosting a unique visiting production that presents two one-act Harold Pinter plays in one show dubbed “Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter.” “Party Time” (1991), a timely political satire, followed by the humorously twisted “The Lover

“Four thousand years ago, someone pressed a reed into clay to preserve this story. Tonight, we sing it forward.” — Diana Farrell, librettist and artistic director Ahmad Joudeh (young Gilgamesh), center, with ensemble in "Gilgamesh: The Opera" at Cerritos Center (Photo by Christina Gandolfo) The 4,000-year-old epic tale of Gilgamesh was brought to life last weekend in the form of a lush opera five years in the making. With culturally inflected orchestral music, a rich libret

From left: Amy Melendrez (Rosalí), Blanca Araceli (Carmen García) and Laura Vega (Pancha) in "Real Women Have Curves" at Casa 0101 Theater (Photo by Steve Moyer Public Relations) Josefina López’s "Real Women Have Curves," directed by Corky Dominguez at Casa 0101 Theater, drops us into a small East Los Angeles sewing factory in the late 1980s. The story follows five Latina women racing to meet an almost impossible deadline while quietly navigating a constant fear of immigratio