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 —