Long Beach Poly beach volleyball wins CIF-SS Division 3 title over Canyon

• May 4, 2025

LONG BEACH — The Long Beach Poly girls beach volleyball team dug deep and rallied past Canyon of Anaheim in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 championship game at Long Beach City College Saturday.

The Jackrabbits (13-6) won their last four playoff games in the second round, quarterfinal, semifinal and final, by a 3-2 margin. The victory is the program’s first CIF beach volleyball title.

“I just knew that it was going to be a battle and that’s something that we’ve put an emphasis on the past few CIF playoff games,” Long Beach Poly coach Litara Keil said. “It came down to the very last two teams every single time and the girls have pulled through and came out on top. I’m really glad that they did it one last time.”

With the deciding match tied at 15 in the third set, Poly senior Simone Millsap, who plays on the Jackrabbits’ No. 4 team, delivered two well placed served for two crucial points, which clinched the program’s first CIF beach volleyball title with a 3-2 victory.

“Winning CIF after having a pretty tough league season is really awesome,” said Millsap, who played alongside sophomore Alyssa Luna. “I’m just excited to watch the rest of my team grow these next few years as they’re in high school and I’m off to college.”

The Jackrabbits trailed 2-1 with Poly’s No. 3 team with junior Lauren Foster and sophomore Taimane Poe picking up the team’s only victory in the first three matches.

However, Poly’s No. 1 team, which was led by sophomore Aleeya Salima and freshman Londyn Foster stepped up in the finals.

“Honestly, we just had grit and we’re representing the name on our jerseys,” Salima said. “What we do in the dark comes to light.”

Salima’s kill put the Jackrabbits up 9-5 in the third set. Poly went on to win the third 15-11, which tied the dual at 2.

“I told my partner, it doesn’t matter win or lose, just play with our heart and that’s what we did,” Salima continued.

The Poly girls indoor volleyball team also won the CIF-SS Division 3 championship against Bishop Diego in November.

“I’m an alumni myself and I’ve been in their shoes as well,” Keil explained. It’s a full circle to be able to come back and win another one with the girls. It’s been exciting. It’s been a road but it’s been exciting.”

“Trying to grow the program and the team, it took a lot but it paid off with the girls hard work and commitment,” Keil continued.

Meanwhile, Canyon, which was led by junior Ellie Nguyen and senior Jordyn Roberts, finished with a 19-8 overall team record. The Comanches earned the program’s first CIF-SS beach volleyball runner-up plaque.

“It means everything considering that it’s our first year of this program,” Canyon coach Jenna Banz said. “I had girls that came out and they had never been on the beach before. So the fact that they could push it to the end, they couldn’t have done any better than that.”

“I think it’s all about experience and the fact that these girls could be here with this crowd and the pressure,” Banz continued. “I think we can only go up from here.”

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Loyola Marymount in NCAA beach volleyball final after stunning UCLA and USC

• May 4, 2025

After eight NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship tournaments, the queens of the sand have resided in Southern California. And that might continue this year, but if so, it will be a new local team reigning supreme.

Loyola Marymount will play for its first national championship Sunday in Gulf Shores, Alabama, after taking out four-time defending champion USC in the quarterfinals Saturday, followed by a 3-2 upset of top-seeded UCLA in the semifinal.

In doing so, LMU ensured that, for the first time since the tournament began in 2016, the national championship would not feature a team from UCLA or USC. The tournament was not played in 2020 due to COVID-19.

Coached by John Mayer, who is in his 10th season, fourth-seeded LMU (38-6) will take on second-seeded Texas Christian (31-5), which is also playing for its first national crown, at 7:30 a.m. PT Sunday (ESPN). The Horned Frogs advanced to the final with a 3-1 victory over sixth-seeded Cal Poly after blanking rival Texas, seeded seventh, 3-0 in the quarterfinal.

The Lions’ path was far from easy as they won three consecutive points to knock off the Bruins (32-7), who were seeking their third title and first since 2019.

Kenzie Brower and Jessie Smith got UCLA on the board with a 21-17, 21-12 win on court three over Lisa Luini and Abbey Thorup. Maggie Boyd and Sally Perez then defeated Anna Pelloia and Michelle Shaffer 25-23, 21018 on court one to put the Bruins within a point of their sixth national-title appearance.

LMU wouldn’t be denied. Chloe Hooker and Vilhelmiina Prihti took down Peri Brennan and Natalie Myszkowski 22-20, 21-16 on court two, followed by Isabelle Reffel and Magdalena Rabitsch rallying on court four for a 16-21, 21-14, 15-12 triumph over Alexa Fernandez and Kaley Mathews.

That meant all eyes on court five, where LMU’s Giuliana Poletti Corrales and Tanon Rosenthal were locked in a battle with Ensley Alden and Harper Cooper. The Lions opened with a 21-18 win, but the Bruins responded to win 21-19. The third and final set ended 15-12, with Poletti Corrales tapping a winner down the left side to kick off the celebration.

The Lions advanced to the semifinal by ousting USC, in search of its seventh trophy, by a 3-1 count.

LMU opened the quarterfinal by winning the first sets at all five positions against the fifth-seeded Trojans (27-11). Luini and Thorup helped pave the way to victory on court three with a 21-17, 21-18 defeat of Maya Gessner and Mabyn Thomas, followed by Poletti Corrales and Rosenthal putting LMU up 2-0 with a 22-20, 21-16 win over Madison Goellner and Kaileigh Truslow on court five.

USC’s Delaney Karl and Ella Larkin cut the lead in half by knocking off Rabitsch and Reffel by a 15-21, 21-14, 15-9 score on court four. The Trojans’ rally and hopes were dashed soon after when Pelloia and Shaffer posted a 21-13, 14-21, 15-7 top-court win over Zoey Henson and Madison White.

UCLA kicked off the day with a 3-0 dispatching of eighth-seeded Florida State. The team of Brower and Smith earned the first point with a 21-10, 21-12 victory on court three.

Minutes later on court two, Brennan and Myszkowski won 21-15, 21-15 to get the Bruins within one. Boyd and Perez needed three sets on the top court but wrapped it up 21-19, 19-21, 15-11 to propel the Bruins to the semifinals.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, May 3

• May 4, 2025

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SATURDAY’S SCORES

GIRLS BEACH VOLLEYBALL

CIF-SS PLAYOFFS

Finals

DIVISION 3

Long Beach Poly 3, Canyon 2

BOYS VOLLEYBALL

CIF-SS PLAYOFFS

Round 2

DIVISION 4

Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks def. Western, 25-21, 25-12, 25-18

DIVISION 8

Wildwood def. Century, 25-12, 25-19, 25-17

BASEBALL

SAN JOAQUIN LEAGUE

Capistrano Valley Christian 13, Webb 0

NONLEAGUE

Savanna 4, Pasadena 3

Note: Head coach John Baughman collects his 250th career win.

Other nonleague scores

Edison 2, Long Beach Poly 1

San Juan Hills 13, California 5

Anaheim 5, Artesia 3

Buena Park 7, Woodcrest Christian 6

Dana Hills 5, San Clemente 4

Canyon 9, Brea Olinda 7

Esperanza 12, South East 3

Corona del Mar 11, La Quinta/La Quinta 0

South Gate 5, Sonora 4

Kennedy 20, University 11

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CIF boys tennis: Defending champion University among 5 top seeds from OC

• May 4, 2025

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University’s boys tennis team is seeded No. 1 for its bid to capture a fourth consecutive CIF-SS Open Division championship and extend a dominant stretch of results.

The Trojans were one of five Orange County schools on Saturday to earn top seeds for the upcoming section playoffs, which begin Wednesday.

Portola (Division 1), Edison (Division 2), Oxford Academy (Division 4) and Capistrano Valley (Division 5) also received No. 1 seeds in their respective brackets.

The section’s playoff pairings were constructed for the first time using in-season World Tennis Number (WTN) power ratings.

University (22-1), also the reigning CIF State champion, claimed the team title at the Ojai tournament last week. The program is seeking its 16th section title and could aim for a third straight CIF/USTA SoCal Regional crown.

The Trojans’ only loss this season came against Punahou of Hawaii in the finals of the All-American tournament in mid-March.

University will be joined in the eight-team Open Division by No. 2 Harvard-Westlake (8-2), No. 3 Beckman (22-1) and No. 4 Corona del Mar (14-2). The draw also includes Peninsula (18-6), JSerra (15-0), Loyola (10-4) and Palos Verdes (14-5).

On Friday, University plays host to Palos Verdes, which it beat 11-7 in the semifinals last season.

“The Open draw has eight very strong teams so it will be interesting and exciting,” University coach John Kessler said. “If we have our full lineup, I think we are a pretty strong team. But you have to respect each opponent.”

Ojai singles champion Rishvanth Krishna elected not to play the Pacific Coast League individual tournament but Kessler hopes to have the sophomore in postseason team competition.

JSerra climbed to the Open Division after winning Division 1 last season. The Lions open at Beckman on Friday.

Division 1 will feature a 16-team bracket while the remaining divisions will feature 32-team draw.

Division 1 features three other Pacific Coast League teams beside runner-up Portola (15-7). Third-place Woodbridge (17-7), fourth-place Northwood (12-7) and at-large entry Sage Hill (13-7) are part of a strong field.

Woodbridge is seeded second to Portola.

Improved Marina (14-3), the Sunset League runner-up, also is in Division 1.

Division 1 featured a 32-team bracket last season.

“The breaklines (between divisions) and bands of teams looked better with a 16-team Division 1,” said Thom Simmons, an assistant commissioner and spokesperson for the section.

Kessler added, “I think CIF did a great job with the Open and D1 draws.”

Edison (12-7), the third-place from the Sunset League, narrowly fell to Division 2. South Pasadena edged Edison by 0.15 in the power ratings for the final spot in Division 1 and first-round match at Portola on Friday.

Foothill (10-6), the reigning Division 2 champion, remained in Division 2 and opens against host Mater Dei (11-5) on Wednesday.

The section added another division with Division 7.

The finals are scheduled for May 16 at the University of Redlands or The Claremont Club.

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Angels’ offensive woes deepen amid growing concerns

• May 4, 2025

ANAHEIM — Perry Minasian is correct when he says that “good teams, teams that have been playoff teams in the past, go through stretches” like the brutal whiff-a-thon the Angels have been mired in for three weeks.

But it seemed like a false equivalence for the general manager to use San Diego’s recent four-game losing streak or Atlanta’s season-opening seven-game losing skid compared to the Angels’ recent struggles, as Minasian did this weekend.

The Braves have made the playoffs for seven straight years, a stretch that included two 100-win seasons and a World Series title in 2021. The Padres have made the playoffs in three of the past five years. Both teams’ rosters are filled with established veterans with proven track records.

In other words, they are everything these relatively young Angels, who lost a franchise-record 99 games last season and appear no closer to ending their 10-year playoff drought, are not.

The Angels lost 15 of 19 games entering Saturday night’s game against the Detroit Tigers, scoring just 46 runs, an average of 2.4 runs per game, and batting .194 with a .574 OPS, 198 strikeouts and 29 walks in 645 plate appearances during the stretch.

They’ve shown some power, ranking fifth in baseball with 44 homers, but they entered Saturday ranked last in on-base percentage (.268) and walks (67), second-to-last in average (.213) and 25th in strikeouts (296).

Only three players in a lineup that is in desperate need of left-handed-hitting pop – catcher Logan O’Hoppe (.280, nine homers, 15 RBIs), outfielder Jorge Soler (.243, six homers, 13 RBIs) and shortstop Zach Neto (.283, three homers, six RBIs in 12 games) – are having decent seasons.

And the Angels will have to play at least another week without their best hitter, Mike Trout, who was placed on the 10-day injured list on Friday because of a bone bruise in his left knee.

“Teams go through stretches where they don’t swing the bat well, and when you don’t swing the bat, you’re gonna have some numbers that aren’t flashy, right?” Minasian said. “We had some productive games early in the season where we swung the bat pretty good, so I’m hoping we can revert back.”

The offensive futility has left virtually no margin of error for a rotation that ranked 23rd in baseball with a 4.35 ERA entering Saturday and an extremely thin bullpen that ranked 29th with a 6.60 ERA, a figure that ballooned after Angels relievers were rocked for 17 runs in the final three innings of Thursday and Friday night losses to Detroit.

Despite all that ails these Angels, Minasian did not express a sense of urgency when asked if he felt compelled to make any trades to boost the last-place club.

“I’m not going off a month,” Minasian said. “We’re gonna roll with what we have.”

K-RATIONS

Manager Ron Washington continues to stress the importance of a two-strike approach, encouraging hitters to cut down their swings in an effort to lower their strikeout rates, but several players have struggled to grasp the concept.

“When you have guys who are capable of hitting the ball out of the park, it’s hard to tell them to cut their swings down, because they don’t know what that is,” Washington said. “Sometimes you gotta go a little off the plate to protect. Don’t leave it to the umpire. We say that every day, but when they walk in that box, they have to make the decision.”

Washington, 73, played most of his major-league career in the 1980s, long before power and patience took precedence over consistent contact, situational hitting and baserunning in the eyes of front-office executives and players.

“There’s this thing in this generation today, where everybody’s swinging the same way on every pitch,” Washington said. “So you’ve got to teach [a two-strike approach], and you have to keep repeating it, keep teaching it, and hopefully, it kicks in.

“But I don’t know if Jo Adell was ever told about a two-strike approach, because when he was in the minor leagues, he was a man amongst boys. I don’t think Kyren Paris ever had a two-strike approach, because where he was, he was the stuff, you know? These things sound simple, but to execute them, it’s not very simple.”

ALSO

The Angels selected the contract of veteran right-hander Touki Toussaint and recalled right-hander Michael Darrell-Hicks from Triple-A Salt Lake before Saturday’s game. Right-hander Garrett McDaniels was placed on the 15-day injured list because of biceps tendinitis, and left-hander Jake Eder was optioned to Salt Lake.

UP NEXT

Tigers (RHP Reese Olson, 3-2, 3.55 ERA) at Angels (RHP Jack Kochanowicz, 1-4, 5.20 ERA), Sunday, 1:07 p.m., FDSN West, 830 AM

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Dodgers promote Hyeseong Kim from Triple-A, place Tommy Edman on IL

• May 4, 2025

ATLANTA — When Hyeseong Kim decided to leave South Korea and sign with the Dodgers last winter, it wasn’t to play in Oklahoma City.

But that’s where the 26-year-old Kim has spent the first month of his career in the United States after failing to make the Dodgers’ roster out of spring training. But he got the word after Friday night’s game that he was being promoted to the majors.

“I was very surprised,” Kim said through his interpreter, sitting in the dugout at Truist Park after an early-morning flight to Atlanta on Saturday. “After the game last night, our Triple-A manager, Henny (Scott Hennessey) announced to me that I was going to go to the Show. I came in with a very happy and very excited mindset. I’m really excited right now.”

Kim’s delayed major-league debut is likely to be a cameo.

The Korean infielder signed to a three-year, $12.5 million contract last winter was promoted when the Dodgers decided to place Tommy Edman on the injured list with an ankle injury.

Edman went through a workout Friday afternoon, testing the ankle he injured on a slide during Tuesday’s game. The results were not enough to convince the Dodgers he would be ready to play this weekend.

“He ran yesterday and just still didn’t feel great, still some soreness in his ankle,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

The IL move will be backdated and Edman will be eligible to return next Saturday. By then, the inflammation in the tendon he stretched should have subsided.

And Kim will likely be headed back to OKC at that point to continue to work on the swing changes he has been asked to make in order to compete at the major-league level where velocity and power pitching are more prevalent than he was accustomed to in Korea.

“That’s the plan, yes,” Roberts said of Kim’s visit being temporary. “But again, he earned the opportunity, albeit potentially a short stint. You never know with baseball.”

Through 28 games with OKC, Kim hit .252 with eight doubles, a triple, five home runs, 19 RBIs and a .798 OPS while stealing 13 bases in 13 attempts. He has played second base, shortstop and center field for OKC.

“For now I feel really very comfortable, very confident,” Kim said.

“I would say that there’s still a lot of space where I have to get better. But compared to Day One that I came here, it’s been better to what I used to be. I still have to go work on it.”

The swing changes have involved “everything,” Kim said (most noticeably a down-sized leg kick). A perennial all-star in the KBO, Kim said all the changes – and the assignment to the minor leagues – have not caused any regrets about his decision to leave Korea.

“No, I wasn’t really frustrated,” he said. “It was just that I had a lot of things to work on. My mindset was that I had to do my work hard, give some good effort and then I’d get called up to the big leagues.”

Saturday’s lineup provided an indication that Kim’s promotion was not a declaration by the Dodgers that he is ready for the big leagues on a full-time basis. Despite facing a right-handed pitcher in Spencer Schwellenbach, the left-handed Kim was not in the starting lineup. Chris Taylor got the start at second base.

“It’s a process. He’s making strides,” Roberts said of Kim’s adjustments. “And this quite frankly can be a good opportunity for him to see some major-league pitching and to see the quality, and also to get his feet wet to make his major-league debut here in the States.

“I think right now it’s going to kind of be to come off the bench and fill in at different spots. But we’ll try to get a start for him.”

OHTANI THROWS

Shohei Ohtani threw another bullpen session Saturday, increasing the intensity slightly but still not throwing breaking pitches. Until he incorporates his slider into his throwing sessions, Ohtani won’t advance to the next step of facing hitters in a simulated-game setting.

Saturday’s session lasted 35 pitches and included increased velocity. Ohtani touched 95 mph with his fastball.

“From what I hear, he was ramping it up a little bit more with the velocity,” Roberts said.

“Just from talking to the trainers I think that’s a good sign, that there’s a little bit more intensity going on there.”

The decision on when to start throwing his slider is a collective one, Roberts said.

“I think it’s more Dr. (Neal) ElAttrache talking to our trainer and then to Shohei. I think those three are collectively driving this process,” Roberts said.

UP NEXT

Dodgers (RHP Dustin May, 1-1, 3.95 ERA) at Braves (RHP Bryce Elder, 1-1, 5.33 ERA), Sunday, 4:10 p.m. PT, ESPN, 570 AM

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Small plane crashes into 2 Simi Valley homes; plane occupant believed dead

• May 4, 2025

A small plane crashed into two Simi Valley homes on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Residents evacuated unharmed but an occupant on board the plane is believed to be dead.

Just before 2 p.m., the small plane crashed in the 200 block of High Meadows Street, said Simi Valley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Chris Johnson.

A resident told RMG News he saw the plane come over the top of Wood Ranch Parkway from the south “flying very low and erratic.” He said two minutes went by before he heard the plane crash.

Two homes were damaged, the Ventura County Fire Department said in a social media post.

About 40 firefighters responded to the crash. In the social media post, the fire department said the firefighters knocked down the fire from the crash, and were  working on cleaning up the scene.

Residents were inside both homes at the time of the plane crash and were evacuated with no injuries, according to the VCFD.

“Preliminary reports indicate one fatality in the aircraft,” VCFD said on social media.

In a video posted by ABC7, firefighters stand on the damaged roof of one house. Below them lies a yard with scattered tables, chairs, and other items. At least two trees can be seen uprooted.

The cause of the plane crash is not yet known and will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Broadcast reports quoted the FAA as saying the pilot was the only occupant of the plane, which was flying from Lancaster to Camarillo.

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Review: ‘The Staircase’ ascends theatrical heights at South Coast Repertory

• May 4, 2025

Late in the world premiere of fledgling playwright Noa Gardner’s compelling “The Staircase,” an 84-year-old Hawaiian mother confronts her middle-aged son with a universal truth about the generational burdens often handed down within families.

In pidgin English/Hawaiian Creole cadences, she warns, “… cuz I can see dat you’re carryin’ something you don’t need to carry.”

Now on South Coast Repertory’s Argyros stage, “The Staircase” probes a contemporary challenge in American life: the emotional toll of caretaking on the caretaker.

A play about unburdening the weight of responsibility — and the personal guilt often accompanying it — might imply a drag on an audience’s spirits.

But this captivating one act, 100-minute drama embraces and enlivens Gardner’s humanistic writing through a superbly directed cast of five and a lovingly curated and accomplished production.

Events take place in a Hawaii distant from coastal resorts and tropical cocktails. A sequence of nighttime scenes transpires in the interior of a modestly kept, but appealing two-story house with a formidable wooden staircase and poor lighting. Outside the structure, a mango tree looms nearby.

The unspecified timeframe is likely set during the late1970s/early 1980s (a visual clue is a newly purchased, boxy Sony TV on which Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” reigns supreme).

The four characters are unnamed, but with archetypal descriptors: Mother, Son, Sweetheart and Father.

Father, we learn, experienced a fatal mishap when Son, at a young age, was not on hand to intervene. Subsequently, Father intermittently lives on in Mother’s erratic memory as an idealized version which Son rejects. The challenges of maintaining responsibility for Mother’s day-to-day living weigh on Son, acutely aware of his personal life gone adrift.

Mother is inhabited in a protean characterization from Ehulani Hope Kane.

The actress, making her SCR debut along with her fellow castmates, is a mother, grandmother and veteran of a half-century in the performing arts. She emphatically conveys a spirit animatedly alive in Mother’s native Hawaiian roots, with a naturalistic determination that makes clear her voice will count no matter what the obstacles.

“Stairs is a young woman’s game, I tell you,” Mother observes, drawing a laugh from the audience, as Kane carefully navigates the formidable staircase that Father designed for the house and has left behind.

Wil Kahele is a veteran actor from Honolulu. He charts a Son clandestine and resignedly passive at the outset, the actor then slowly enlarging  the character’s conflicts and internal needs with grace and assuredness as Son creates a future by facing off against the past.

Two smaller, story-amplifying roles are written for the son’s intermittent Sweetheart and for Father.

Nara Cardenas brings an open and warm generosity as the “sweetheart” whose presence beckons Son with a second chance to claim a life with a future. Ben Cain suits the role of a self-assured imperious father figure.  Father-Son confrontations are nothing new in dramas, but in this case it leads to a cathartic liberation.

There is a fifth significant performer, actively shaping the production while literally overseeing it. Situated above the audience and spotlighted in one of the theater’s second level boxes, musician Kainui Blaze Whiting is heard throughout striking intermittent beats on two “ipu,” traditional Hawaiian percussion instruments made from gourds.

Whiting additionally plays a Hawaiian stringed instrument and contributes impactful vocal chants. The performance is a mesmerizing sonic presence. This work is further is enhanced by a subtle sound design credited to Amelia Anello.

Visually, Rachel Hauck’s scenic design is also an excellent visual ingredient. A veteran of four other SCR productions, Hauck has won a Tony award for her design of “Hadestown” and is a recent nominee for another Broadway production, “Swept Away.”

The set is flanked and dominated by the staircase, which is both imposing and mysterious in ascending into a darkness the audience can’t see. Inside, the house is a carefully organized assembly of an object-filled living and kitchen space that connotes both lived-in-ness with casual decay.

Sara Ryung’s utilitarian costuming at first conveys down-market dressing devoid of all aspiration, comfort at the expense of ambition. But as events move forward, she introduces interesting touches that signal character aspiration.

The action is supported through adroit, nighttime lighting from Josh Epstein, who likely delights in continually frustrating Son with a balky lamp fixture with a mind of its own.

Ultimately, the likely key to the successes in this show is the impact of a talented ringmaster. It’s a safe bet that “The Staircase” has that in director Gaye Taylor Upchurch.

The components of this production flow unerringly without any facet feeling estranged from the larger aims of the storytelling. Genius talent is real when it doesn’t call attention to itself.

There is a quibble, however, reaching back into the writing of the Mother character and it leaves one with a final bit of unease. From early on there are repeated instances of memory loss and disassociation, signaling the character’s onset of dementia.

But the end of the play suggests a level of self-sufficiency for an 84-year old that seem at odds with what we have been shown, and which cast an unintended shadow over an otherwise upbeat denouement.

Since 1983, SCR has awarded 356 commissions to 245 playwrights, composers and lyricists. “The Staircase” is the 164th fully produced premiere the theater has staged of a homegrown new work and it surely must stand tall in the theater’s legacy.

A final word of cautionary advice: only two more weeks of performances remain. Moving quickly for tickets to “The Stairway” would be a very good step to take.

‘The Staircase’

Rating: 3 1/2 stars (out of a possible 4)

Where: Julianne Argyros stage, South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa

When: Through May 18; 7:45 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays

Tickets: $35-$114

Information: 714-708-5555; scr.org

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