Friday, June 8, 2012
This 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’…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:24PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Be advised – Vanessa Claire Stewart’s wonderful play about Buster Keaton is not a barrel of laughs. Dealing largely with the latter, dismal years of the legendary silent film comedy star…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:38PMThe Getty opens a new, expanded Children’s Shop at the Getty Center this week, featuring fun and imaginative items for kids of all ages. Located on the Plaza Level of the West Pavilion in …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:30PMDear readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article for LA Stage Times where I chatted with Douglas Sills, one of the stars of the new Broadway musical, The Addams Family. You can go here t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:05AMMonday, June 4, 2012
Playing yet another mustachioed character, Douglas Sills returns to the LA stage as the patriarch of the proudly oddball Addams family, opening tomorrow night at Pantages Theatre. The former…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:48PMSunday, June 3, 2012
For the third consecutive year, Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret have announced a sizzling one-performance-only musical event on the mainstage at the 2012 Christopher Street West …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMThursday, May 31, 2012
The 6th Annual Kidstock Music and Arts Festival is set to rock Beverly Hills this Sunday, June 3rd, 2012. Hollywood harmonizes with HUDSON JEANS at this fun-filled family day of music and Ar…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:27PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Gentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Beautified, a personal play written by Tony Abatemarco. It’s the ‘Pick of the Week.’ It’s a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:37PMMonday, May 28, 2012
Beautifully timed with Father’s Day, the Hollywood Master Chorale (HMC) will perform compositions by the young winners of its “Voices of LA” student competition *on* Father’s Day, Ju…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:13PMFriday, May 25, 2012
Barbara Kraft’s sensitive memoir, Anaïs Nin: The Last Days, captures the humanity, mortality and essence of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and yet mysterious literary fi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:06PMThursday, May 24, 2012
In Focus: Picturing Landscape, a photographic exhibition currently at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, May 22 – October 7, 2012, offers a rich trove of landscape photography fro…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:51PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
The “world’s largest short film festival” – Tropfest – is heading for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, June 1-3, 2012. Twenty years ago, in Sydney Australia, a young actor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:17PMPlaying TONIGHT at The Echo in Echo Park is a band called Funeral Club. Reminiscent of the haunting strains of Siouxie and the Banshees, their style of music is gothic, brooding and atmosphe…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:18PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Here is an important Announcement/Letter from CEO of LA STAGE Alliance, Terence McFarland regarding the 99 seat producer meetings. Hello 99 seat Theatre Producers and Community! This …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:12PMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Enjoying its world premier is Danai Gurira’s new play The Convert, commissioned by Center Theatre Group, and now running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City through May 19, 2012. Th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:58PMMonday, May 7, 2012
The newest release from savvy indie publishing house, Huqua Press, is a fabulous little cookbook by a seasoned (!) cook, Gwen Kenneally; the Sweet & Savory Cookbook. An LA-based cook, ca…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PMSunday, May 6, 2012
Writer/director Joss Whedon’s take on the Marvel universe – The Avengers – is breaking US box office records this weekend, following smash hit success in international markets. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, May 4, 2012
Gentle Readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article for LA Stage Times where I sat down with a quintet of costume dressers to discuss their craft and hear their stories. Go here to read i…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:07PMWhen actors step confidently and calmly onto the stage in the right costume that has been mended and pressed, it’s often thanks to the wise, quick work of their dressers. Five dressers rec…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:48PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Hello readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of The Last Day, an unusual play starring and written by Christina Joy Howard about her father’s involvement in the mass…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:16PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Dear wonderful Subscribers! Announcing a special giveaway for existing and new Subscribers to ArtsBeatLA.com (Tell you friends! Become a subscriber to enter – go here and select “subsc…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:04PMSunday, April 29, 2012
Bertolucci babe and Bond girl Eva Green is a villainous witch hell bent on revenge. The actress/model stars in Tim Burton’s big screen fantasy comedy version of the creaky cult classic TV …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, April 27, 2012
::LAST WEEKEND:: Final extension of this successful season — this exceptional play must close Saturday, April 28, 2011. Four dinner plates, a flash of gold at the ears, a lingering kis…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:26PMCompany of Angels’ Playwrights Group presents the world premiere of L.A Views V: April 29, 1992 – eight short plays written by Gabriel Rivas Gomez, Jonathan Ceniceroz, Julie Taiwo Oni, M…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:57PMThursday, April 26, 2012
The Restaurant at the Getty Center is offering special menu in connection with the gorgeous Herb Ritts: L.A. Style – a stunning photographic exhibition that is not to be missed. Thi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:33PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Dear readers, this week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of a mildly humorous reading by Sherry Netherland from her book, I was a Cellist in the Marching Band. One performance rem…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:49PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Corky Hale, a Jazz pianist who once accompanied the late, great American Jazz singer Billie Holiday, is joining up with singer Freda Payne, along with singer (and daughter-in-law) Tricia Ta…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:22PMMonday, April 23, 2012
The LA STAGE Alliance has announced LA Stage Talks, a series of panel discussions moderated by LA STAGE Alliance CEO Terence McFarland, exploring various aspects of the creation of performin…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:44PMSunday, April 22, 2012
Making its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse is David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony-award nominated play Good People. Last year I spoke with Tate Donovan shortly after he wrapped the New…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMAn upcoming Modern Art & Design Auction will include over 100 works from an important Santa Barbara collection, featuring fine art and sculpture by George Rickey, Chuck Close, Roy Lichte…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:51PMFriday, April 20, 2012
In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony-award nominated play Good People, there are no good people. There are a handful of disgruntled working class women who are struggling to keep their he…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:22PM 
