Troy Dunn (Vanya) in "Uncle Vanya" at City Garage Theatre (Photo by Paul Rubenstein) Anton Chekhov’s 1899 play “Uncle Vanya,” adapted by Neil LaBute in 2020 and directed by Frédérique Michel at City Garage Theatre, unfolds on a Russian country estate where the routine of maintaining the property has hardened into resignation. Vanya (Troy Dunn) and his niece Sonya (Anabela Nguyen) have devoted their lives to managing the estate in the service of Sonya’s father Serebryakov (And

Brian Henson in "Puppet Up! – Uncensored" (Photo by Omar Gaieck) As the old saying goes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.  In “Puppet Up! – Uncensored” — returning to Los Angeles at the Montalbán Theatre through March 1 — Brian Henson and troupe have put together an awesome assembly of puppets and made them funny, relevant and ADULT!  The troupe offers a great evening of taking random scenarios — and I mean RANDOM! — thrown out from the audience, fielded by improv a

This review was originally published in the Long Beach Post , a nonprofit news organization, on February 19, 2026. From left: Monika Peña (Aldonza), Richard Bermudez (Don Quixote) and Reggie De Leon (Sancho Panza) in Musical Theatre West's "Man of La Mancha." Photo by Sujan Creative. Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605 novel “Don Quixote” tells the story of a nobleman who becomes a knight errant, traveling the land doing chivalrous deeds with his more realistic sidekick Sancho Panza —