Wednesday, 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 09:37PMCity Garage revives an early Neil LaBute play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance, but re-locates it from a topless bar to a high-end art gallery, befitting City Garage's …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:24PMSunday, January 1, 2012
The LA Weekly published submissions from several of its writers based on ‘Favorite book you read this year.’ Click this link and scroll down to see my choice. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMA Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, brings its hit production of Michael Frayn’s hilarious farce Noises Off to its new Pasadena theatre for a brief run…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMFriday, December 30, 2011
Opening next week is an art exhibition at the Robert Berman Gallery, found within the art enclave Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, that pairs Gerald Slota’s collage/photography with short…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, December 29, 2011
Bakersfield Mist, the new play by Fountain Theatre co-artistic director Stephen Sachs, has been optioned by multiple Tony award-winning producer Sonia Friedman for productions in Lond…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:28PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
A few of us from the Weekly wrote about our Memorable Theatre Moments Mine was from the opening night performance of Vivien, starring Judith Chapman. Enjoy! When Audiences Attack Opening nig…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:53PMGentle readers, here is this week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly, of playwright Kerr Seth Lordygan’s new melodrama, Askance now playing at the Eclectic Theatre …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:36PMTuesday, December 27, 2011
Pounding rhythms, colorful tribal costumes, exquisitely light and authentic African choreography, visually stunning staging and politically charged lyrics – Fela! is a biographical funk co…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:42PMThursday, December 22, 2011
What more can be said about the Troubadour Theatre Company, who each year bring their own hilariously warped and satirical style of musical comedy to a beloved Christmas tale? This …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:04PMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Kicking off the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, this major new site-specific commission by Hirokazu Kosaka transforms the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a scu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, December 19, 2011
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles, the first museum survey devoted to the work that the tabloid photographer known as Weegee produced in S…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:49PMSunday, December 18, 2011
Hello dear readers! Here is a link to this week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly, BOB CRATCHIT & MR. TIGHTWAD Or you can read it here – Katrina Wood’s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:55PMFriday, December 16, 2011
The Japan Foundation has produced a documentary film about a memorial project created to honor the tens of thousands who lost their lives in the Tohoku region of Japan in the Great East Japa…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:51PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
The Los Angeles Master Chorale wraps its holiday programming with a “traditional” concert version of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7 pm, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. �…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, December 12, 2011
It’s still the age-old story: a boy and girl go to Bethlehem, Herod goes postal, Caesar goes Vegas, baby, the Occupy Bethlehem encampment stinks to high heaven and well, we’re not really…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:00AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Hello all! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is of Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre’s late night Christmas offering, CHRISTMAS THRILLS AND HIGH ADVENTURE …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:20PMThursday, December 8, 2011
The Art Addiction presents Angels & Demons Art Exhibit as angels and demons invade Sunset Plaza this Saturday. Come if you dare and let two world…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:41PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Newly released on DVD is an astonishing travel documentary about the jewel of the Pacific – the garden isle of Kauai. Geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands, Kauai is …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:32PMMonday, December 5, 2011
Hello readers, Here is a link to a recent article I did for LA Stage Times about Bari Hochwald and her socially-aware work with The Global Theatre Project. The upcoming show is happen…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:08PMA staged reading of an Italian play examining the legacy of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and a panel discussion on the impact of assassinations of reporters are part of the Gl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:52PMSunday, December 4, 2011
After three successful presentations in Silverlake, the cult-hit evening of comedy, Worst Audition Ever, is coming to King King in Hollywood on Tuesday, December 6. Worst Audition Ever is an…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:28PMThursday, December 1, 2011
Everyone knows that Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist. But most people don’t know that she was also the silliest and most hilarious scientific boffin that ever existed! Okay, so maybe …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:20PMWednesday, November 30, 2011
Actor Alan Alda turns his hand to playwriting and sets his focus on the life and loves of Marie Curie. (The actor is most famous for playing Hawkeye from the hit TV show M*A*S*H, but also fo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:51PMGentle readers, here is a link and reprint of last week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly, of Eugene O’Neill’s disturbing drama, Desire Under The Elms. or read it here: Pi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:39PMDear readers, Scroll down to read my LA Weekly theatre review of Johnny O’Callaghan’s heartfelt saga about his visit to a Ugandan orphanage. Who’s Your Daddy? or read it …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:17PMTo complement the current exhibition Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique, the Getty Villa is offering a special gallery course on Ancien…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:56PMMonday, November 28, 2011
For one night only, an assortment of rock legends will come together to raise money to build water wells in troubled south Sudan. Henry Rollins, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Dave Navarro, Scott…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:54PMMonday, November 21, 2011
An odd downer of a ‘comedy,’ written and directed by Morris Panych, Vigil sets its maudlin tone from lights up. A large and slovenly middle-aged man has appeared, suitcase in hand, in th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:11PMFriday, November 18, 2011
Theatricum Botanicum’s new play development program, Botanicum Seedlings, continues to inspire growth by reaching out to a mix of emerging and award-winning playwrights for SeedlingsFest, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:35PM For decades, Bill Cunningham, a Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high-society charity soirées for The New Y…
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