Wednesday, 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 08:55PMMonday, May 27, 2013
What happens when art studios collide?! An exciting, multi-disciplinary evening of art exhibitions, performance art and access to private art studios is happening on Saturday, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMSaturday, May 25, 2013
Witty, hilarious, slightly disturbing, mind-boggling… While some people opt to avoid advertising if they can (leaving the room to make a cup of tea, fast-forwarding through them, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:36PMFriday, May 24, 2013
The earthy reality of poverty and magic realism collide in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by American playwright, August Wilson, now playing at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum throug…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Feature this! Featuring music, comedy bits and stories from vintage horror comic books, Captured Aural Phantasy Theater (CAPT) presents its Night of Noir Show at the historic El Cid for One …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:40PMHello dear readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is the *Pick of the Week!* Dying City, an exciting new(ish) play by Christopher Shinn, is now playing at Rogue Machine The…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:40PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Jazz at LACMA features the art of jazz as practiced by leading Southern California artists. Celebrating over twenty years at LACMA, the program continues to be one of the museum’s most rec…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:22PMMonday, May 20, 2013
A gorgeous new opera made its world premier last Friday at The Broad Stage, in a co-production with LA Opera, conducted by L.A. Opera’s general director Plácido Domingo. Performed in Eng…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:37PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Gentle readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of Conversations ’Bout The Girls, now playing at Greenway Court Theatre on Fairfax in Los Angeles. Click here to go to the …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:49PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
The eighth and final concert of Le Salon de Musiques’ 3rd season will be held this Sunday, May 19, 2013, and will feature Brahms’ Lieder For Soprano, Piano And Viola Op 91 and Pia…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:27PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Perfected Favourites: The Adamek/Papworth Family Cookbook is a heartfelt collection of superb recipes, with an Australian twist. The cousins and parents of two Sydney-based clans are devoted…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:31PMMonday, May 13, 2013
This year’s 4th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival is just around the corner and today the team has launched a useful app to enhance and improve our Fringe-going experience. See key dates be…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:44PMFriday, May 10, 2013
LA STAGE Alliance has announced LA STAGE DAY, a day-long community event for the greater Los Angeles performing arts community. Generously hosted by California State University Los Angeles, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:07PMThursday, May 9, 2013
A ferocious cast giving their all in a powerful play—Marco Ramirez’ The Royale is a tremendously satisfying evening of theater, now playing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Set in the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:03PMMonday, May 6, 2013
Turn-of-the-century Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s naturalistic drama Miss Julie was remarkable in its day for its scandalous subject matter and frank dialogue exchanges. With its …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:18PMSunday, May 5, 2013
A cross between Twain’s adventures of Huckleberry Finn and an action-packed Quentin Tarantino movie, Here I Am: An Unconventional Life is a remarkable and unusual autobiography written by …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:27PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Hello readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Anatomy of the Gazellas, now playing at Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village. Click here to go to the LA Weekly�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:38PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
“I am one of millions of out, proud gay people who didn’t choose to be gay—I was born this way! So begins Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay, the charming and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:40PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
The spectacular and newly conserved Mozia Charioteer statue from Sicily (pictured at left) forms the dramatic centerpiece of a new exhibition of antiquities at the Getty Villa. The thoughtfu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:31PM The Glendale Youth Orchestra, conducted by Brad Keimach, finishes their 24th Season with a flourish on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at 7:00pm at the historic Alex Theatre. The program includes fi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:14PMMonday, April 29, 2013
In playwright Sharr White’s quirky two-person drama, directed by Bart DeLorenzo, a formerly married couple reunites and tries to make sense of their estrangement. Married in real-life acto…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:43PMThe Broadway musical Fela! is the true story of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, who created a new type of music, Afrobeat, and mixed these pounding eclectic rhythms with incendiary lyrics that …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Hello groovy readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of It Goes Like This, now playing at Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center in West Hollywood. Cli…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:24PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Boo! Featuring music, comedy bits and stories from vintage horror comic books, Captured Aural Phantasy Theater (CAPT) presents its Ghastly Horror Variety Show at the historic El Cid for One …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, April 22, 2013
The Norris Center for the Performing Arts will present the West Coast premiere of Real Men Sing Show Tunes… and play with puppets April 26—May 12, 2013. The new, song-filled adult musi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMDealing with the emotional highs and lows of adolescence is tough enough, but in Daniel Talbott’s coming-of-age drama, Slipping, the lead character Eli also has to contend with the sudden …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:00AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Gentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Orange Flower Water, now playing at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Hollywood. To read it, click here to go to the L…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:35PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Rockwell: Table & Stage is hosting a live performance by funny lady Missi Pyle for ONE NIGHT ONLY, Monday April 22 @ 8pm. Hollywood actress Missi Pyle returns to LA’s Rockwell: Table …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, April 15, 2013
Red Bastard, the unusual clown-comedy-one-person show by Eric Davis that took the Hollywood Fringe Festival by storm last year, returns to the Los Angeles theater stage for a brief series of…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Boasting a superb clowny performance by Kevin Blake as Hollywood filmmaker Billy Wilder, Billy & Ray
is a light comedy about the making of the groundbreaking motion picture Double Ind…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:03PMThe hit “For The Record” series will leave its resident home in Los Feliz for one night only and head to Hollywood to perform “Tarantino In Concert” at famed House of Blues Sunset St…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:15PM 
