From left: Sean Yves Lessard (Jamie) and Cat Rojo (Cathy) in "The Last Five Years" at Hudson Backstage Theatre (Photo by Sydney Belabin) Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown’s 2001 “The Last Five Years,” directed by Aaron Byrnes at the Hudson Backstage Theatre, is an intimate two-person musical that explores a relationship at its breaking point. The story unfolds through two timelines told simultaneously. Jamie Wellerstein (Sean Yves Lessard), a novelist, moves forward from t

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