Saturday, August 20, 2011
Looking for something to do this Sunday (tomorrow)? Sunday August 21st is your last chance to catch to check out Intimate Opera Pasadena’s (IOP’s) production of the brilliant and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:06PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Please enjoy my latest theatre review for LA Weekly, of the world premier of a new comedy Next Window, Please, written by Doug Haverty and notable for its almost exclusively female cast. Hap…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PM There’s a cool Art Block Party planned for tomorrow (Saturday) night, over at the Lofts at NoHo Common. Music, Dance, film and of course Art will be happening on Weddington Street,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:34PMThursday, August 18, 2011
To celebrate its two-year anniversary, ArtsBeatLA has just been relaunched with a brand new layout and design theme. I am also starting a weekly Op-Ed column, paired with a links list as a r…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:37AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Welcome a new section where I plan to opinionate wildly as I discuss topics of interest.
You have been warned!
Thanks to a rather unusual incident at last Friday night’s play, I’ve…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:20PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
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The Robey Theatre Company, Los Angeles’ acclaimed African American theatre company based downtown at Los Angeles Theatre Center, is on track to scoop the pool at the forthcoming NAA…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:26PMMonday, August 15, 2011
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A photo exhibition, entitled Vanishing Point, currently on display in Little Tokyo, shows a Japanese “healing” town before and after the disaster. There will be a reception and di…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:39PMSunday, August 14, 2011
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Melissa James Gibson’s ingeniously constructed drama, This, is far too clever for its own good.
Review by Pauline Adamek
Sure, it touches on deep (if bourgeois) themes, such a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, August 12, 2011
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Gentle readers, please enjoy my interview with a legend of daytime drama, Judith Chapman, who is starring in a solo-show about another legend of stage and screen, the magnificent Vivi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:28PM***
Macy Gray joins Rhythm & Roots – a
benefit performance at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood for one night only!
Report by Pauline Adamek
Grammy Award-winning, multi-pl…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:27PMThursday, August 11, 2011
Soap opera star Judith Chapman tackles a solo show about the troubled movie star Vivien Leigh at Rogue Machine, where Chapman was the first board president. Rick Foster's play is set just da…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:31PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
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Gentle readers, please enjoy my interview with Sandra Bernhard, who has a new album of stand-up comedy and a new live show entitled I Love Being Me, Don't You? coming to LA for two we…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:20PMSandra Bernhard is discussing her new album, I Love Being Me Don't You? A blend of her signature brand of critically acclaimed comedy with two musical covers that showcase her idiosyncratic …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:16PM***
Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly, of a semi-amusing, if cringe-worthily clichéd, autobiographical comedy by playwright Kenny Solms --
I…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:14PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
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Witness the spectacle of nature’s fury from a safe distance – Lucas Jackson’s magnificent images of the recent volcanic explosion in Iceland, entitled Eyjafjallajokull: Images …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:51PMSunday, August 7, 2011
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Experience a magical evening of grace, beauty and skill in the form of traditional and modernized Korean Dance. The Kwan-Gyu Lim Dance Company will perform at the Ford Amphitheatre on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:12PMThursday, August 4, 2011
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Come and celebrate with the cast at a special screening of the delightful romantic comedy feature film Luminarias. This Gala event is being held at Los Angeles Theatre Center on Augus…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:08PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
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“Chanbara” Samurai Stories – featuring exciting Japanese sword fighting – is now playing David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo (home of the East West Players).
Running …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:18PMSunday, July 31, 2011
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New York’s 2009 Drama Desk Award winner Celebrity Autobiography has returned to Los Angeles at The Broad Stage. Created by Emmy-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack, and developed…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:04PMFriday, July 29, 2011
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Breathtakingly inventive and theatrically innovative, the hit show Watson is BACK for a short season of only three weekends at Sacred Fools Theatre Company.
Review by Pauline Adame…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:04PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
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Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly, covering week two of the Eclectic Company Theatre's eighth annual month-long festival of new plays, calle…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:57PM***
For an evening of traditional Korean music, dance, acrobatics and folk celebrations, head over to the Ford Amphitheatre on Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:00 p.m for Sound of Korea.
Repor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:42PMMonday, July 25, 2011
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that a work by the acclaimed contemporary American sculptor Charles Ray has been loaned to the Museum and will be placed on view beginning Jul…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:50PMFriday, July 22, 2011
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Huge, trippy soap bubbles are the subject of a locally based photographer’s latest exhibition.
Report by Pauline Adamek
Gallery 169 is displaying these works by photographer …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:47PMThursday, July 21, 2011
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On Saturday, August 13th 2011, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on Wilshire), will host a special Japanese Zen Painting gallery course on Hakuin Ekaku, one of the most signifi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:10PMWednesday, July 20, 2011
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Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly, a hilarious mashup of Shakespeare and pop music brought to you by those madcap clowns, the Troubadour The…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:00PMMonday, July 18, 2011
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A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company led by Founders/Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, launches its milestone 2011-12 Se…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:03PM***
Not sure what painting you are gazing at or spotted at the gallery earlier that day? By taking a photo with the Google Goggles™ new mobile application for your smartphone, you can n…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:07PM***
Now in its eighth year, the Eclectic Company Theatre in NoHo is once again staging Hurricane Season, their new works festival and playwrights’ competition that showcases the short-l…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:49PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
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The Fowler Museum at UCLA teams with Afro Funké to present a closing event for the Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley exhibition, (on display through July 24) w…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:40PM***
Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly,
of a funny period comedy from writers George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann,
The Solid Gold Cadill…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:15PM 
