Candide

CANDIDE at the Long Beach Opera

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Jonas Schwartz –  Arts In LA The concept framing Long Beach Opera’s Candide, of life as a first rehearsal, is apt. We’re given little stage direction and then blindly stumble through this world. So the title character—after discovering that life is tragic, cruel, and random—learns that the best one can do to survive is to find … Read more

CANDIDE at Sacred Fools Theatre

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw Playwright Jon Jory’s adaptation of Voltaire’s novella Candide is, to cynically paraphrase the satire’s implacable optimist, Professor Pangloss,  work that is the best of all possible worlds. Which is to say that it is all right-ish, if not especially powerful or inspired. Read more… Now running through Oct. 17.