Wednesday, 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 04:23PMNot only did The Spidey Project beat its target, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, to an opening night in New York, but the parody version is also arriving in LA before the behemoth Broadway s…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:14PMTheatre Unleashed (TU) seeks to collect books for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and its ‘Literally Healing’ program during the company’s run of The Spidey Project: With Great P…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:51PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Center Theatre Group is establishing a special daily lottery program for the run of Green Day’s explosive Broadway hit musical American Idiot, presented at the CTG/Ahmanson Theatre March 1…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:04PMSunday, March 4, 2012
With your friendship, Japan moves forward from the Earthquake one year ago. Arigato!! To convey their heartfelt gratitude for the massive worldwide support they received after …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, March 2, 2012
Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for Damian Lanigan’s play Dissonance, now playing at the Falcon Theatre in Toluca Lake. Click here and then…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:23PMThursday, March 1, 2012
Lulled by Native American singing and chanting, gradually you find yourself being pulled into another world. Two one-man plays, written by and starring acclaimed actor and storyteller Robert…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:19PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
The Gallery at Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica will display an exhibit, Poured Paintings by locally-based, Australian-born artist Felicity Nove, with an opening reception schedul…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:37PMHello dear readers! My last week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly was for Ty DeMartino’s play Finding Fossils, now playing at The Road Theatre in NoHo. Click here and s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:07PMSunday, February 26, 2012
The Troubador Theater Company’s ‘Funky Punks’ are some of the friendliest and silliest clowns around. Employing a creative use of simple props and settings, the cast of ten jump around…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
They simply don’t write plays like they used to. They really don’t. Born in 1915, Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, until his deat…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:36PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Book Savvy – a day-long conference on getting published – promises to be a fantastic event and timely resource for the LA writers community. Hosted by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Wome…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:48PMMonday, February 20, 2012
Cella Gallery is pleased to present Femme Fatale, a group exhibition featuring the works of over 35 innovative artists handpicked by curators Nicole Bruckman and Stephanie Chefas. An arche…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMSunday, February 19, 2012
Two nights ONLY – Monday, Feb. 27 and Wednesday, Feb. 29, Mario Melendez presents Hunky Dory, the Rock Opera at King King Nighclub in Hollywood. This energetic evening of entertainm…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMThursday, February 16, 2012
In its West Coast Premiere at the Odyssey Theatre, Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s two-act drama mines the prickly and uncomfortable terrain of a mother and daughter relatio…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:15PM This year’s nominees for the L.A. Weekly’s annual theatre awards, as voted by yours truly as part of the L.A. Weekly theater critics team, have been announced. On April 2, the L.A…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:14PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Now playing at the Sierra Madre Playhouse is a very funny play featuring a great cast and a superb set (designed by Adam Smith). Twentieth Century, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (adapte…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Dumb fun and loads of laughs, the new action-comedy movie This Means War is a slick, savvy and crowd-pleasing thrill ride. It’s a glossy and handsome, high-concept and lavishly filmed …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:44PMThe Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles and the Japan Foundation present OVERCOMING THE DISASTER – ARIGATO from Japan - a concert of gratitude. An evening of exceptional performances…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:49PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Currently tearing up the tap-dance floor, late night on Saturdays in Vitello’s downstairs back bar in Studio City, is a triple-threat phenomenon named Chantz Powell. Immaculately bedecked …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:14PMOn February 16, 2012, for one night only, The Broad Stage and National Geographic present Deep Ancestry, its most ambitious project in their 120-year history. Explorer-in-Residence Spencer W…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, February 10, 2012
LA is truly fortunate at present to have two interrelated plays and productions concurrently on its stages. This matched pair of plays consist of director Phylicia’s Rashad’s handsome pr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:21PMGentle readers! This week’s theatre review for LA Weekly is of René Rivera’s auto-biographical solo show, The King of the Desert. Click here and scroll down to find my review. &…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:10PMThe stars will come out for laughs and a good cause when Craig Bierko and the Celebrity Autobiography team up for Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital on February 21, 2012 for two spe…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:21PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Dear readers, Here is a link to my latest article for LA Stage Times on Evan Brenner’s one-man play, Buddha – A Fantastic Journey Happy reading! Pr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:01PMEvan Brenner's solo Buddha - A Fantastic Journey condenses reams of sutras about the Buddha's life into about 90 minutes. Brenner discusses his show's path and how acclaimed actor John C. Re…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PMA patriotic concert for a patriotic season – the Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra presents American Musical Salute on Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. at Sexson Auditorium on the c…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:46PM“I just finished wrapping my legs around a lycan’s neck and shooting everyone in the room.” Sounds like just another typical day on the set of an Underworld movie. Sexy star of the fir…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:54PMMonday, February 6, 2012
This year, hundreds of cherry trees will be planted in Southern California to commemorate the cherries that were planted in Washington D.C. one hundred years ago. The extravagant gift of c…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:32PMEnglish playwright Joe Orton’s madcap farce, What the Butler Saw, gets a fairly standard treatment by The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, and is now playing until Sunday, March 11, 2012. Unfortu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:40PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) annually gives special awards for excellence in theatre. You can now follow them on twitter via @LADramaCC . Recently announced were the nomi…
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