Steven Leigh Morris

Faeries and shadows and mortals being fools grab this week's Pick -- yes, another Midsummer Night's Dream, but the Actors Gang version is unusually fine, says critic Deborah Klugman. Also good words for a 1950s sci-fi comedy, Captain Dixon vs. The Moth Sluts From the Fifth Dimension at Zombie Joe's......

Tom Sawyer coming of age, and all that represents about America, is depicted in an entertaining stage adaptation at Sierra Madre Playhouse -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- that's this week's Pick. Also receiving nods this week are Blistered Hands and Bloody Mouths at Zombie Joe's Underground, and Spumoni!,......

Odalys Nanin's speculative drama Garbo's Cuban Lover concerns a certain coziness between Greta Garbo and 1930s poet, playwright and novelist Mercedes de Acosta, who was also cozy with Marlene Dietrich. It's not the first time the play has been presented at the Macha Theatre, but it is nevertheless this week's Pick. Also......

Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Our critics also particularly enjoyed Eat the Runt at Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE, El Grande de Coca Cola at Santa Monica's Ruskin......

We had two cars in which to stow three dogs and a lifetime's worth of possessions. The emergency broadcast service at 1610 AM, or WINKI, kept repeating the mantra on Wednesday, July 17: "There is now a mandatory evacuation order in place for Idyllwild and Fern Valley, east of Highway......