J A M E S ASHLEY G O I N S

His music circulated throughout Europe and appears to have influenced composers who came after him, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was eleven years his junior. Musicologists have identified striking parallels between passages in Saint-Georges's compositions and later passages in Mozart's works.

One approaches a new script with anticipation, hoping to find characters that breathe and a story that resonates. In James A. Goins' Unexpected Family, one finds a rather potent premise grounded in contemporary anxieties and timeless questions about kinship and identity. The play introduces us to Beatrice “GiGi Bea” Holloway, a Burbank-based former B-movie actress of a certain age, whose meticulously curated, if somewhat faded, world is irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of