Thursday, July 18, 2013
Hello readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Suburban Showgirl, now playing at NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:04PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
From the moment the curtain goes up and our diva is belting out a song (in a nightclub setting) while flanked by two smooth back up singers, you know you are in good hands and are heading fo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:45PM A dazzling new Rock and Roll Vampire Opera is taking the stage at King King in Hollywood this summer. A tragic love story finds a couple torn apart by the grave and surrounded by Vamp…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:26PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Gentle readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Fantasticks, now playing at Sierra Madre Playhouse in Sierra Madre. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:51PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Currently playing on Friday nights at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre in NoHo is a presentation of four adaptations of short works from the early-to-mid 1800s by Edgar Allan Poe: the shor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:13PMSaturday, July 6, 2013
Brett Womack and Rachel Bowman (pictured) are currently performing their spectacular aerial show—a gravity-defying silks act—at the swanky retro Edison nightclub, in Downtown LA. Using …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:26PMFriday, July 5, 2013
Hello readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Judy Show, now playing at The Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:07PM French filmmaker Alain Resnais Is Still Turning ’Em Out at 91 It’s difficult to imagine an American filmmaker making anything as abstruse as this latest film …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:50PMThursday, July 4, 2013
The South Pasadena Arts Council will be participating in the next Arts Crawl on Saturday July 13, from 5-9 pm with two collaborative projects. SPARC is collaborating with photographic artist…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:11PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Gorgeous photography of stunning vistas (Monument Valley). Action-packed and well-executed stunts in and on fast-moving steam trains. Johnny Depp. That good enough for you? Then go and see G…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:54PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Best of Fringe Extensions returns for a fourth year of extended runs of the greatest hits of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, running July 2 – 28 at five Hollywood venues. Produced by Combin…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:55PM‘Superman’ has long been a valuable asset for Warner Bros. Studios. The fictional comic book superhero, who featured in DC Comics publications as far back as the 1930s, is considered an …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:11PMMonday, July 1, 2013
The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival concluded last night with the annual Award Ceremony and Closing Night Party. Here follows a photo essay of the awards ceremony. Reporting by Pauline Adamek…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:39PMNext time can the theme be ‘Bikini Beach Party’?! It was an enthusiastic if overheated crowd that packed the house to the rafters at Fringe Central last night to witness the exci…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:11PMThursday, June 27, 2013
Gentle readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini, the exciting sequel now playing at Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood. We ga…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:51PMEver roared, hooted and giggled so hard you actually became afraid you might not be able to stop? The Heat, starring two of Hollywood’s top comediennes—Sandra Bullock and Melissa McC…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:14PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Newly opened (last Friday night) at Sacred Fools is the next exciting installment of the ‘Watson’ franchise. READ ALL ABOUT IT! Here follows my interview with playwright a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:10PMJaime Robledo's first Watson play was a hit for Sacred Fools. Now a sequel, Watson the Dark Art of Harry Houdini, opens, with Robledo again directing and with another Ryan Johnson score.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:35PMMonday, June 24, 2013
Bring a picnic and enjoy FREE ballet under the stars! The Music Center will partner with Los Angeles Ballet to present that company’s productions of Agon and Rubies on Saturday even…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:40PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Hello readers! This week I’m still covering the Hollywood Fringe Festival for the LA Weekly, so my two reviews are of The Real Housekeepers of Studio City , and Mud, both still …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PMThroughout July, Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Free for All: MOVIE MONDAYS Mondays at dusk (approximately 8 p.m.) Arts Plaza. FREE. The Wedding Singer July 8, 2013 If…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:57PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
::STOP PRESS:: Connie Loves Juice returns this weekend (and next) for FOUR shows only! June 21, 22, 28 & 29! Read my previously published review: 80s dance tunes and dazzling choreograph…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, June 17, 2013
The 4th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival is in full swing. So far I have reviewed Experiment and DAVID & LEEMAN: How to Convincingly Fake Honesty for the LA Weekly. Experiment is still p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:13PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Hello readers! This week we’re all covering the Hollywood Fringe Festival for the LA Weekly, so my two reviews are of Experiment, and DAVID & LEEMAN: How to Convincingly Fake Hones…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:06PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
It’s not every day you get to be heavyweight champion of the world—for a professional sportsman it’s a once in a lifetime event, at least the first time is… In 1964, at the tende…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:22PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Tickets are still available for this Saturday’s Zoo event! Chefs and celebrities—including the fabulous Betty White—were on hand to promote the upcoming annual fun…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:25PMTwo visual artists, Olivia Barratier and Alain Bali, reveal haunting landscapes of the human psyche through gritty and lyrical photographic imagery for their new duo show June 12—13 at the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:05AMFriday, June 7, 2013
For The Record: Zemeckis just opened at Rockwell: Table & Stage—that cool, fun and intimate supper club in Los Feliz where you can enjoy superb cuisine and delicious cocktails as well …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:26PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Held for its fifth consecutive year in May at La Cienega Design Quarter (LCDQ), LEGENDS is a three-day celebration of design. This year, as always, the luxe event brought together VIPs and t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Dear readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of the rock opera Rent, now playing at Hudson Theatres in Hollywood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:53PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
A study of language and identity, Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Translations charts the beginning of a grim passage of Irish history where the imperialism of the brutish British governmen…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:55PM 
