Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Gentle readers! Here’s a preview of some of my most recent theater reviews for Stage Raw, the new(ish) critical website that recently launched. Stage Raw contains the latest arts and t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:57PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Dmitri Hvorostovsky and I are not exactly close… I once encountered the Russian operatic baritone 25 years ago, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, when he was an unknown young singer …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:12PMMonday, May 26, 2014
Jennifer Dyer, of Jeneration Interiors, was selected to design the window at Gina Berschneider for the 6th annual LEGENDS of La Cienega Design Quarter event that was recently staged from May…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:27PMFriday, May 23, 2014
One performance remains of A Streetcar Named Desire – the Lyric Opera of Chicago and LA Opera’s co-production – featuring superstar soprano Renée Fleming in the iconic lea…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:27PMThursday, May 22, 2014
The final date of this year’s season, the Sunday June 1st “LE SALON DE MUSIQUES” concert promises to be a really festive and emotional event! The classical Chamber Music group will cel…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:19PMMonday, May 19, 2014
Welcome new subscribers! Thanks for stopping by ArtsBeatLA’s booth at LA Stage Day on Saturday. It was really great to meet you I hope you enjoy our newsletter –…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:01PMFriday, May 16, 2014
The 2nd annual L.A. Stage Day is happening tomorrow SATURDAY, May 17, at Cal State L.A. Of special note is the L.A. Stage Day BAZAAR is ~ FREE ~ and open to the public. ArtsBeatLA will have …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:06PMThursday, May 15, 2014
More a curiosity piece than a great film, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre — the 1979 remake of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent black & white picture Nosferatu — is nevertheless …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:58PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
The 2nd annual L.A. Stage Day is happening THIS SATURDAY, May 17, at Cal State L.A. Of special note is the L.A. Stage Day BAZAAR is ~ FREE ~ and open to the public. ArtsBeatLA will have a bo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:44PMLAST 10 days remain for an exciting opportunity for all SoCal based playwrights! The deadline is May 25th. A Theatre Connection is accepting submissions for its Los Angeles Commissioned Work…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:31PMMonday, May 12, 2014
The Eastern Star Gallery is a unique art exhibition space located on the Brentwood campus of The Archer School for Girls, an independent middle and high school located in the Brentwo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:19PMThe entire Los Angeles theater community is invited to support the Hollywood Fringe Festival by attending the Fringe Benefit on Thursday, May 29th at King King Nightclub in Hollywood. You ca…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, May 8, 2014
The Hollywood Fringe Festival (HFF) in back this June for its fifth year. The lively theater and music festival has been growing since its inaugural year in 2010, when Artistic Director Ben …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:10AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Hello dear theater peeps! My latest theater review for the new critical website Stage Raw — which contains the latest arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team of journalists &#…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:21PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Sci-Fest — Hollywood’s first annual Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival — blasts into the Acme Theatre TONIGHT. This ‘one of a kind’ festival features two rotating weeks of new a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:03PMFriday, May 2, 2014
Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Nicole Kidman. Phil Noyce, George Miller, Baz Luhrmann . . . Ever since the swashbuckling days of Errol Flynn, people have been marveling at the wealth of t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:50PMThursday, May 1, 2014
::STOP PRESS:: Discounted tickets to this Sunday’s concert are available HERE! Fantastic deal!! Passionate and dedicated about his work in Science and in Music, Alexander…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:57PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Elegance Refined A top Hollywood producer and his philanthropist wife discover solace and sophistication in Sherman Oaks. It’s no surprise that the Sherman Oaks home of Grant and Ly…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:39PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Greetings art and theater aficionadi! The new critical website Stage Raw has launched and contains the latest arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team of journalists. Some links to …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:50PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Over the past three years, the Inner City Shakespeare Ensemble (ICSE) has engaged students in the appreciation of the wit and wisdom of “The Bard,” enriching their lives with productions…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:51PMFriday, April 25, 2014
CAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER presents Crime Story Confidential Comic book crimes they didn’t want you to see… Witness “Sin-fluential” tales from the brutal pages of vint…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:53PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen will have a single performance Monday, April 28 at 8pm in the Gil Cates Theater, in a Spotlight Entertainment Series Production. An introspective retrospecti…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:19PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
The independent films of Jim Jarmusch have always held a quiet cool. For his latest cinematic venture, Only Lovers Left Alive, Jarmusch delves into the melancholy and decaying world of a pai…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:28PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Four monologues written by diseuse Ruth Draper are brilliantly performed by Annette Bening as a 90-minute one act evening of entertainment. This new show at the Geffen begins nicely enough, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:59PMThursday, April 17, 2014
Gentle readers! Here is my newest feature article on the Stage Raw site – South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company brings their magic to a new interpretation of Shakespeare&#…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:45PMFriday, April 11, 2014
A marvelous time was had by all who attended the 45th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards event. A group of professional theater critics, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LAD…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:40PM ::STOP PRESS:: Odyssey Theatre’s “A Steady Rain” extends through May 11, 2014 then heads to the Guthrie in the fall Previously reviewed: In Keith Huff’s casually profane police pro…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:50PMThursday, April 10, 2014
“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.” ~ Dmitri SHOSTAKOVITCH Regarded as one of the most important 20th Century composers, Dmitri SHOSTAKOVITCH…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:48PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
TOMORROW EVE — catch the launch of a new book Unframed at an art exhibit reception. Unframed is also an art exhibit of figurative works by painter Camille Waldorf celebrating Waldorf’s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:31PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Today more than ever, the sentiments expressed by Eugene Ionesco in Barbara Kraft’s ‘Conversation’ with him, are as important, if not more so, than when he spoke to her many years ago.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:13PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
It’s warm, it’s inclusive and it’s educational, but make no mistake — we all get to breathe rarefied air when we attend a chamber music event presented by Le Salon de Musiques. Comin…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:15PM 
