LongBeachPlayhouse-"The Next Room ... or" ... Play: More than Clever Comedy, Writer, Director, Cast, & Crew Bring Witty Victorian Man-Woman Wisdom.. Laughs+Messages

Theater Review:  PATCH Entertainment Event:  Long Beach, Belmont Shore, Naples, Los Alamitos/Seal Beach

In The Next (Vibrating Room) Play:  More than Clever Comedy, Writer, Director, Cast, & Crew Bring Us Laughs &  Messages

Review By: Joseph Sirota

Bravo! Long Beach Playhouse(in its 85th Anniversary), it's now offering another unique, captivating, multi-dimensional, live play -- In The Next Room(or The Vibrator Play). The play is by Sarah Ruhl, an exceptionally worthy modern playwright that has an amazing ability to create stories, characters and captivating views that are not only especially entertaining and often funny, but ALWAYS, thought-provoking that has us reevaluating life's values, -- especially the relationships between "Man & Woman". By the last curtain of a Sarah Ruhl play, any taken-for granted, certainties we had, are far more open for new ethics and different "musts" or "must-nots" to our minds. The Vibrator is a surely memorable example of Ruhl's seemingly odd and unusual situations, characters' & stories that examines the core-of-gender-life-issues.    Happily, The Long Beach Playhouse is stretching its envelope of plays --bringing audiences, wide show varieties spanning many interests.