Tuesday, November 5, 2024
The next Western Arts Alliance Conference will be in Los Angeles, September 2-5, 2025. Arts reporter Brian Sonia-Wallace went down to San Diego this year to scope out the conference before i…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:42AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Pina Bausch’s ballet Rite of Spring was staged at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with performances over four nights, February 8-11, 2024.
More than thirty dancers from 1…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:32AMSunday, January 28, 2024
Now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse is the new production Kate, a one-person show performed by Kate Berlant.
The name KATE looms omnipresent over the whole theatre. The sign over the …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:32PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Micky’s Launches New Weekly Open MicFrom the desk of the West Hollywood City Poet Laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace.
Pictured above – The Mic @ Micky’s hosts Nate Lovell, Tony Moore…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:24PMThursday, January 27, 2022
A spectacular opening last night at the Shrine launched the appearance of Iceland’s most famous human, singer and techno-eco-feminist-utopianist Björk—presently here in the States for h…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:42PMTuesday, January 4, 2022
Promising to be Björk’s most elaborate and theatrical stage concert to date, Goldenvoice presents Björk – Cornucopia over three nights in January at Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:24PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
The Insider Secrets for Hello World
You will carry on to let it operate since you stop by this next report. Nothing might have assisted them longer. Yes, in the event that you should be d…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:54AMMonday, April 22, 2019
Things You Won’t Like About VPN Reviews and Things You Will
To ensure privacy, it is advisable to be sure you have got a
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:20PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Brian Sonia-Wallace reports from the front lines in the battle to save Arts funding:
City Council meetings are notoriously boring, full of wonky policy and
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMMonday, April 10, 2017
A Noise Within has created a faithful, stunningly designed Man of La Mancha, a 1964 loose musical adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The adaptation
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:42PMFriday, July 29, 2016
The Johnny Cycle: Part II: The Shell is the second part of a trilogy that The Speakeasy Society is creating, based on Dalton Trumbo’s 1939
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:06PMMonday, April 11, 2016
Watch our AWP 2016 round-up with Brian Sonia-Wallace, reporting for ArtsBeastLA from the conference.
Go here to see Brian’s VIDEO report.
Association of Writers
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:28PMThursday, March 17, 2016
This is a think-piece by Brian Sonia-Wallace.
How exciting! No one in the theatre knew how to feel. Half of them left at intermission. Written by
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:56PMThursday, February 18, 2016
Andy’s world is just that – a world!
Quiet on plot, loud on character, this devising cast (Rook Theatre company) has created some magical realism for
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:45PMFriday, December 18, 2015
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:00PMFriday, October 30, 2015
It’s been six months since Pierre Huyghe, a retrospective of the French artist, closed at LACMA. But the thing about having living elements in a gallery is that their lives continue af…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:01PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Entering the Matrix Theatre to see Ded! is a treat in itself. A calavera looms over the marquis, and two more giant calavera women are holding court in the entryway in their bright dresses. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:09PMSpeakeasy Society’s The Hollow has me excited to watch this company grow, and feeling tingly about the future of immersive theatre in Los Angeles. The show is a piece of dinner theatre-cum…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:38PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Laura Karlin, Artistic Director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, set herself a big challenge with Reeling in the wake of last year’s After it Happened (reviewed here). That piece was a response…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:43PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
I stand at the mouth of the gallery. It gapes.
And still I stand. I have been hired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to announce each patron’s name as they walk in.
“Susan Choi!�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:27PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Forever was, to quote an elderly gentleman leaving the theatre, “not my cup of tea.” The latest creation of writer/actress Dael Orlandersmith, this one-woman show is a piece of straight-…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:30PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
After it Happened is an intensely theatrical piece of transdisciplinary work by Invertigo Dance Theatre that creates a post-disaster world that manages to be disturbing, beautiful, and very,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:23PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Brian Sonia-Wallace attended this year’s 20th Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of The Oppressed Conference. Here follows his report. Every year, a group of theatre artists and educators …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:15PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Bliss Point is Cornerstone Theatre Company’s latest community-based collaboration in its 5-year Hunger Cycle of plays, and this one deals with addiction and recovery communities. It’s a …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:44PMThursday, June 12, 2014
If this production were to play a verb, it would be “to tickle the audience.” An intricate European clown cabaret show that ebulliently descends into punk chaos, The Kharmf…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, June 2, 2014
I was simultaneously aroused and intimidated by the intelligence of playwright Steven Drukman’s Death of the Author. This play is highly recommended – but be advised, if you’re not con…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:14PM 
