Greggory Moore

Long Beach

Writer at Random Lengths News

I'm never quite sure. But occasionally I write, like 'The Use of Regret' (a novel).

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“Ada and the Engine” fails to capitalize on compelling subject, good casting

1 week ago | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was a visionary, a maths prodigy to the nth degree who, in the first half of the 19th century, glimpsed the future of computers and coding. She would be an attractive character even if she weren’t the daughter of Lord Byron, the celebrated Romantic poet. It’s no wonder Lauren Gunderson is not the first to write a play about her.
It’s Year 7 of soundpedro — and you still haven’t been? - Random Lengths News

1 month ago | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

At the apex of San Pedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center is a rejuvenating space on its most ordinary day, an arts campus with commanding ocean and cityscape views. But for one night each summer, something extra special is created on this seven-acre plateau. If you’re already aware of soundpedro but have never checked it out, why not? Why would you ignore such a miracle of concentrated aesthetic presence, simultaneously family-friendly and cerebral…free of charge? Including parking? Come on.
One-time “reality TV” star shows real talent in one-woman play

1 month ago | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

I don’t know who the fuck Bekah Martinez is. Google says “Former TV personality” — The Bachelor, 2018. I can’t tell you how many fucks I couldn’t give. It’s a sign of the apocalypse that this got her 850,000 Instagram followers. It’s a sign of the apocalypse that seven years later there are 850,000 people who want pics of her non-Bachelor hubby and kids popping up on their phones. These are end times. But never mind.
“The Library of Maps” locates Long Beach Opera at a peak

1 month ago | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

We are on a ship at sea. The captain has just died. A new mapmaker has been born unto a library that contains all the maps in the universe. Passengers and crew drift across the sea of time on a voyage without a fixed destination. Or something like that. The wisps of plot were beside the point in the second-ever staging of Pauline Oliveros and Moira Roth’s The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts, performed aboard the Queen Mary on April 12 and 13.
Long Beach Symphony meets MTV for season’s final Pops concert

2 months ago | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

What do you get when you cross a symphony orchestra with 1980s MTV staples? What sounds like the setup for an inscrutable bad joke is in fact the premise for what should be a fun show: “Electric Avenue: ‘80s MTV Dance Party,” the closing event of Long Beach Symphony’s 2024–25 Pops season, which promises opportunities to dance to the likes of hits by The Police, George Michael, Soft Cell, The Cars, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, a-ha, and Prince. But this is a Pops show with a difference.
Musical Theatre West’s “Into the Woods”: Smart art, well-delivered

2 months ago | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

Speculations about who’s “the GOAT” — greatest of all time — are a bit silly even when it comes to sports, never mind in the far more subjective realm of arts. But no remotely rational debate about the GOAT of musical theatre could fail to include Stephen Sondheim, so layered are his creations, so smartly does he mine the work of the greats that came before him, so clever are his conceits, so witty and wry are both his lyrics and music.
“Tragedy Gift Shop” more fable than play

Mar 17, 2025 | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

Commonplace gun violence. Exploitation. Sensationalism. Amoral corporate greed. This is today’s America, and it’s enough to make you want to scream. If you’re a playwright, your scream may make it to the stage. Hence Tragedy Gift Shop, Ryan McClary’s second world premiere at the Garage Theatre in four seasons.
Long Beach Opera dials up the ambition for season’s second aleatory offering

Mar 5, 2025 | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

Having just seen/heard Long Beach Opera’s staging of El Relicario de los Animales, I don’t have a clue what they’re talking about on their website when they call it “one of [Pauline] Oliveros’ most emotional scores,” as I gather this season’s second aleatory exercise care of Oliveros is based on little more than the composer’s intended orchestration, spatial arrangement of the musicians, and general suggestions for content based on animal themes for four movements. Emotional content? Nada.
Garage Theatre turns 25 by the grace of community

Mar 5, 2025 | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

When I sat down with a quartet of Garage Theatre co-founders in 2010 as they got ready to celebrate their 10th anniversary, they told me that nearly three times as many groups were doing theatre in Long Beach as when the Garage came on the scene. But that trend has reversed, and in 2025 you can count on your fingers the number of groups that don’t have “high school” in their name offering theatre of any kind in the 44th biggest city in the United States.
Long Beach Playhouse channels the spirit of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”

Feb 27, 2025 | randomlengthsnews.com | Greggory Moore

According to the American Psychological Institute, the term ‘intergenerational trauma’ did not come into use until the 1960s. So while the clinical concept is foreign to the inhabitants of the mid-1930s that populate August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, the burden is a lived reality. Long Beach Playhouse has a cast that gets it right, both the struggle and the joy that can be found in its midst.

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