Monday, July 9, 2012
Sisters Breda (Lisa Pelikan), Clara (Casey Kramer) and Ada (Betsy Zajko) are stuck living in an isolated fishing village on the west coast in Ireland with no escape. The trio is haunted by t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:08PMLAST DAYS to see Where the Great Ones Run, Mark Roberts’ character piece set in a crusty old truck stop diner in rural Indiana. In the corner sits a regular patron, an old man (Tucker Smal…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:29PMFriday, July 6, 2012
Gentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Glaswegian playwright D. C. Jackson’s uproarious and award-winning comedy My Romantic History. Click here to go to the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:38PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Award-winning painter, writer and professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Pam Douglas, launches the second in a trilogy of art shows inspired by earth’s primal energies—Water, F…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:04PMMonday, July 2, 2012
As always, this year’s Los Angeles Zoo’s annual ‘Sunset Safari’ – a special interactive event – was a tremendously fun experience for Safari Club members (those who make donation…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:24PM The Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA), a nonprofit organization, has announced its line-up of feature films to be presented during the 8-day event, July 6—13, 2012in venues…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:18PMSunday, July 1, 2012
Currently on display at the Japan American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) in Downtown LA is a traveling photographic exhibition presented by the Japan Foundation. PART I : Satu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:46PMFriday, June 29, 2012
Artist Michael Heizer’s monumental sculpture Levitated Mass has opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Unfortunately, the giant concrete trough built to afford an all acce…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:50PMThursday, June 28, 2012
TOMORROW NIGHT! DK Dance Factory is launching summer with a Brazilian Carnival style. Experience the sounds and culture of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia to North Hollywood at Skinny’s Lounge on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:37PMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Hello dear readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article for LA Stage Times where I chatted with the three stars of the Broadway musical, War Horse. Andrew Veenstra plays Albert Narracott,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:36PMThe War Horse star (spoiler alert -- he's actually a puppet) isn't doing interviews, but we talk to Andrew Veenstra as the award-winning play opens at the Ahmanson. He plays the boy whose be…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThis year’s 3rd Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival concluded last Sunday night with the Fringe Closing Awards Ceremony, an awards presentation at Fringe Central Station. Known as ‘The Frea…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:19PM Shaky home movie footage of a small town, as viewed from the passenger seat of a car, is projected before our narrator walks up to a music stand with his notes. Ominously hanging upst…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:58PMTuesday, June 26, 2012
The Martin Dancers, a culturally diverse, non-profit company, will perform the company’s repertoire on select Sundays, June through September 30, 2012. In a series of summer concerts stage…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:26PMThe Getty’s Garden Concerts for Kids series returns this August with a line-up of some of the nation’s most popular children’s musical artists. Families can delight in the imaginative …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:04PMSunday, June 24, 2012
Kite-Making with Basir Beria Saturday, June 30, 2012 1–4 pm Fowler Museum UCLA Campus. International kite master Basir Beria, a specialist in Afghan fighter kites, was the kite mast…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, June 22, 2012
Less a solo-performance, more an exercise in terrorizing the audience, former Cirque du Soleil clown Eric Davis coyly emerges from behind a curtain upstage to reveal an exaggeratedly bulbous…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:38PMFrom the moment Bill Sterritt’s play begins, with a maid character carefully pegging up the skirt of another female character to reveal lingerie, garter belt and stockings and then feather…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:43PMMonday, June 18, 2012
At last Saturday night’s 10pm Fringe performance of Four Clowns: That Beautiful Laugh, at Open Fist Theater in Hollywood, I found myself sitting in a large audience of about 200 people all…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:29PMHello theater aficionadi! Here follows a link to my (and fellow LA Weekly critics’) theater reviews for the Hollywood Fringe Festival – HFF 2012. LA Weekly Fringe reviews Mine ar…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:55PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
I had heard raves from my fellow critics about this show, so my expectations were reasonably high. Alas, those expectations were dashed by a play that had its merits (the incisive storyline …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:26PMFriday, June 15, 2012
Feathers, sheer white chiffon, frilly can-can skirts, sequins, bling, fishnets and thong bikinis – CARPE NOCTEM (‘seize the night’) is an intimate evening of authentic French Cabaret d…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:27PMHere is another review for LA Weekly of a Fringe show that was less than impressive… Before the Red Trees Come A man-baby – an everyman-type – awakens in a room and learns …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:20PMDear readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of No Way Around but Through, written by and co-starring Scott Caan and Melanie Griffith (as his Mom!) Click here to go to the …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:11AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Dear theater fans, The excitement was palpable this past weekend, and the Fringe hadn’t even started! Several shows opted to hold ‘preview’ performances for the critics, but they were …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:42PMFun, ghoulish and fantastic – don’t miss this re-worked Broadway musical, now playing at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. Despite a woefully conceived character and performance (Mortic…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:07PMSunday, June 10, 2012
Christopher Marlowe’s classic Elizabethan drama, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is re-imagined as a Western comedy of errors. The hilarious ‘improv’ trio Sound & Fury™, R…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:26PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Anaconda by Sarah Doyle. Following last year’s presentation at the Fringe, Feeling Feeling, writer/director Sarah Doyle ventures into far darker territory with Anaconda. Hers is a controve…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:19PMTheater aficionadi, the Hollywood Fringe Festival is almost upon us for the third year in a row. Running from June 14—24, 2012, this non-curated theater festival promises an “explosion o…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:08PMFriday, June 8, 2012
Hello readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Compleat Female Stage Beauty, written by Jeffrey Hatcher. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page with my review…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:30PMThis weekend ONLY, Center Stage Opera opens their new production of The Barber of Seville, which centers on the scheming hilarity of reality television. It’s Rossini meets ‘Reality TV’…
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