Monday, February 6, 2012
The 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…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:34PMSunday, February 5, 2012
The Laugh Pack is back! The music and comedy show that played at Theatre West on New Year’s Eve was so favorably received that The Laugh Pack returns in a projected series of monthly sho…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, February 3, 2012
For its fifth intimate concert of the second season, Le Salon de Musiques program will feature Poulenc Flute Sonata with piano and Arnold Bax Elegiac Trio for Flute, Harp and Viola and Faur…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:56PMThursday, February 2, 2012
Gentle readers, Here is a link to this week’s review of Who’s Hungry, with a handful of performances remaining this weekend at Highways performance space at 18th Street Arts Cent…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:56PMDiscover the Arts in Los Angeles, the longest running and largest arts campaign in the City, launched its three-month campaign with a lively press conference, held Tuesday on the steps of Mu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:44PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
“Nothing much has changed, except people lock their doors at night now.” Considering it’s generally required reading on the school curriculum, and frequently staged by amateur as well …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:18PMFriday, January 27, 2012
In the classic 40s movie All About Eve, Bette Davis as Margo Channing utters the famous line, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” That’s pretty much the t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:46PMCity Garage’s controversial production of Neil LaBute’s 1989 play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance is ongoing at their gallery-of-residence at Bergamot Station. C…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:53PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Jordan Vineyard & Winery have announced their 4 on 4 Art Competition involving the Los Angeles Art Community. A trio of Southern California artists is sought for a chance to win up to $5…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:41PMTuesday, January 24, 2012
One night only – this Thursday – catch a special performance by Val Kilmer as legendary writer and literary celebrity Mark Twain. One of the actors of our generation takes …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:09PMMonday, January 23, 2012
On January 26th, noted actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith joins artists Carrie Mae Weems and Eileen Cowin for an evening of conversation and readings at the Getty Center. They will di…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:45PMSunday, January 22, 2012
An eventful weekend of play readings – free to the public – gives an advance look at plays scheduled for full production at Los Angeles Theatre Center during its 2012 Spring and Fall pro…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:10PMSaturday, January 21, 2012
Four dinner plates, a flash of gold at the ears, a lingering kiss, a bottle of scotch, a swipe of color on a tarpaulin… The clues are all there. In her thrilling two-act play Theresa Rebec…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:54PMFriday, January 20, 2012
Call for participants! Lita Albuquerque’s Spine of the Earth 2012, is to be recreated and performed in the hills above Culver City at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, and will offer a …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:45PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Kathleen Turner strides onto the largely bare Geffen stage in her skinny black jeans, denim over shirt and props her ruby red cowboy boots onto a crowded work desk next to a manual typewrite…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:12PMChristopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica is currently presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Scott Short. Expanding upon a precise and highly laborious art making technique, Short’…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:59PMHello readers, Here is a link to this week’s review of JP Miller’s emotional drama from the 1960s, Days of Wine and Roses, now playing at the Lounge Theatre in Hollwyood. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:31PMEbony Repertory Theatre’s highly successful production A Raisin in the Sun, is being handsomely re-mounted at the CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. At the helm of this p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), noted for discovering and showcasing stellar young artists early their careers, presents the dynamic and uniquely talented 21-year-old violinist Nigel A…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:41PMSunday, January 15, 2012
WinterFest 2012 – Immerse yourself in some new theatre. Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA is currently presenting three weeks of non-stop staged readings: 47 plays in 18 days including new works …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:35PM*** STOP PRESS: This show was booked out, but check for newly-released tickets *** Kicking off the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, this major new site-specific com…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, January 13, 2012
Likely to be a three-hanky weepie, featuring stunning photography by Janusz Kaminski and an original score from John Williams, is a new picture directed by Steven Spielberg. In War Horse a y…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:01PMThursday, January 12, 2012
One of Neil LaBute’s earliest produced plays, Filthy Talk For Troubled Times, is currently being given a brand new treatment by City Garage over at the Bergamot Station art complex. In a s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:25PMGet a taste of Australian cinema! MudFest has been announced as an Official Satellite Event of the G’Day USA Festivities, with a special evening of all-Australian short films being screene…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:00PMDear readers, This week I covered the reprise of Michael Frayn’s rollicking British farce, Noises Off, being re-staged by the repertory company A Noise Within at their new Pasadena dig…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:45PMTuesday, January 10, 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 02:40PMThe myth of the artist has been a popular theme for filmmakers since the dawn of cinema. On January 14–15, the Getty Museum will present Dream a Little Dream: Artists in Film, a series of …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, January 9, 2012
The longstanding photo l.a. returns to the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 21st edition on Thursday, January 12 – Monday, January 16, 2012. Continuing the discourse on …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:27PMLucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel are set to return to the Greenway Court Theatre. I Love Lucy® Live on Stage has extended its highly successful run and the sold-out musical comedy returns for …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMSunday, January 8, 2012
Star of stage and screen (most notably his Emmy-award winning role as Beverley Leslie on TV’s Will and Grace and as Emma Stone’s boss at the newspaper in the movie The Help), Lesl…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMWednesday, January 4, 2012
Gentle readers, here is a link to my interview with Neil LaBute for a new staging of an old play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, opening this weekend at City Garage, at Bergamot Stat…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:37PM 
