Friday, 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 05:22PMThursday, April 19, 2012
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank teacher Beth Morrison and Burbank PTA Council President Barbara Miller will be honored by the Burbank Arts for All Foundation at the inaugural gala e…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:19PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Gentle readers, this week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of the fun and frothy tap-musical parody Dames at Sea, currently running at the Colony Theater in Burbank. Click here to…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:39PMMonday, April 16, 2012
Supporters of the Los Angeles Zoo, along with their excited children, will be treated to a special interactive evening with the animals at the Zoo’s annual Sunset Safari, to be held on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:10PMSunday, April 15, 2012
Tadasana translates from Sanskrit as “mountain pose.” It is the primary standing yoga position, the place from which the entire physical experience begins. The Tadasana Festival, to be h…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMSaturday, April 14, 2012
Exquisite detail and luxe touches – this year the legions of designers have truly outdone themselves. For several months numerous teams of dedicated interior designers, as well as countles…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:52PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Poetic, impressionistic and occasionally melancholy and whimsical, the elegant staging of legendary actor/dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov’s new show, In Paris, is breathtaking. In Paris is only…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:56PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
When was the last time you heard a theater audience scream in fright?! Okay, this critic merely jumped out of her seat, but there was a lot of shrieking going on in this intimate (50-seat) b…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:19PMMy theater review for the LA Weekly this week has been dubbed the ‘Pick of the Week.’ Read all about The Bungler, the hilarious farce by 17th century French playwright Molière,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:37PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
With what promises to be its most ambitious slate yet, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has announced its impressive 2012 lineup and celebrates its 10th Year Anniversary. 33 f…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMMonday, April 9, 2012
In a unique art, music and performance-based installation, thirty hand-painted and gaily-decorated pianos are being placed in public spaces across Sthn Cali with the invitation to anyone to …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:57PMSunday, April 8, 2012
It is very rare that a museum will let you touch their exhibits let alone allow you to operate them, but that is what the Printing Museum is up to with its 2nd Annual Kids Krazy Krafts Day.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, April 6, 2012
A delightfully transporting and magical fable about the illusory nature of love and relationships, The Illusion by Pierre Corneille (adapted by Tony Kushner and beautifully directed b…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:01PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Two distinguished speakers grant an insight into the current situation for Afghan women in their county. On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Nushin Arbabzadah (pictured right), research scholar at…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:24PMMonday, April 2, 2012
Dust off your pork pie hat and buff up those dancing shoes… Jake and Elwood are back! “THE ALL-NEW ORIGINAL TRIBUTE TO THE BLUES BROTHERS™,” featuring the entire original London cast…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMSunday, April 1, 2012
Famous historical and contemporary figures captured through photography can be seen in a new Getty exhibition. Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity, on vi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMThursday, March 29, 2012
Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for the hilarious romantic comedy Lights Off, Eyes Closed, a Sky Pilot Theatre production written by Liz Shannon Miller …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:52PMMonday, March 26, 2012
Start ripping up a bed sheet – to honor the classical origins of theatre, this year’s ‘LaWees’ has a toga party theme. Hence, the dress code is toga attire (laurel wreaths optional).…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMThursday, March 22, 2012
“A night of Lad-Sissies celebration!” The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s 43rd Annual Awards Show, took place last Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within’s glamor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Hello dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for If We Are Women, written by Canadian playwright Joanna McClelland Glass in 1993, now playing at The Lonny Chapma…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PMSunday, March 18, 2012
The Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Overtone Industries presents the world premiere of its new opera The Woman in the Wall, with two weekends of performances, opening Friday, March …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMThursday, March 15, 2012
Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for the musical version of Alice Walker’s sensational saga The Color Purple, now playing at Celebration Theater in…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:04AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) annually gives awards for excellence in theatre. You can now follow them on twitter via @LADramaCC Presenters and performers have been…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:06PMMonday, March 12, 2012
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art’s highly anticipated annual exhibition and benefit art sale, returns for its eighth year, enhanced by the first-ever PRECOGNITO Gala and Preview event…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:29PMAn acclaimed author of crime-fiction (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane is certainly in his element when charting a page-turning thriller plot. Lehane has tried hi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:21PMSunday, March 11, 2012
Vox Femina Los Angeles continues its 15th anniversary season with From Shakespeare to Shamrocks, a spring concert celebration that brings the English and Irish together in song on Sai…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, March 9, 2012
A 340-ton megalith that is to be part of artist Michael Heizer’s monumental artwork, Levitated Mass, has begun its epic journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Levitated M…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMThursday, March 8, 2012
Celebrity photographer Herb Ritts’ extensive career is examined in a new exhibition at the Getty. The exhibition, entitled Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, includes the artist’s photographs in fa…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:22PMBlood-drenched, with an undercurrent of impending violence, Beth Henley’s new play The Jacksonian grips you with its intensity as well as flashes of poetic language and dark humor. Making …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:11PM Dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, now playing at the A Noise Within’s gl…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Dear Readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article on the genesis of a fun spoof musical, The Spidey Project, including interviews with the show’s creator Justin Moran as well as the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:23PM 
