Beast on the Moon at International City Theatre

Richard Kalinoski's haunting and poetic play about two immigrants who escape the Armenian genocide in Turkey to seek refuge in America. In 1921, an Armenian mail-order bride is shipped to Milwaukee to begin a new life with her photographer husband. As they struggle to define family amidst their grief and displacement, these kindred strangers find hope, healing, redemption and love. Winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award and the Khorenatsi Medal, Armenias highest cultural award. Aug. 21 Sept. 8, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. International City Theatre, located in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach, CA 90802;(562) 436-4610; InternationalCityTheatre.org.

Authors

• Richard Kalinoski