Monday, May 10, 2021
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), is celebrating 35 years of Bug Fair. Join them for Bug Fair Connected, the virtual edition of NHM’s popular festival. They will sha…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PMMonday, April 26, 2021
Kemp Powers’ vibrant, historical and original play One Night In Miami made its world premier here in Los Angeles back in 2013. During the past eight years, the play became a screenplay, th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
L-R: Packie (Shea Whigham), Swaino (Jon Bernthal) and Frank Romanoski (John Pollono) also Ciara Bravo as Crystal Romanoski
Laced with casual expletives, John Pollono’s Small Engine Rep…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the campaign art for the 93rd Oscars®. The 2021 campaign illustrates this year’s tagline, “Bring Your Movie Love,” celeb…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:24PMMonday, March 15, 2021
Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards® were announced today.
Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas announced the 93rd Oscars® nominations t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:32PMWHO: UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents a rebroadcast of a recent concert performed here in L.A. by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
On March 16, 2020, six days af…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
Delejos (from afar) is a one-woman immersive theatrical experience incorporating story, song, light, and a sprinkling of magical realism to guide the audience through an “at-home VR experi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:42PMLady Gaga (Patrizia Reggiana) and Adam Driver (Maurizio Gucci) in HOUSE OF GUCCI Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto, Jack Huston
L…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:18PMMonday, March 8, 2021
Natalie Douglas has wowed audiences on three continents with her critically acclaimed voice, and her winning way with a crowd. Accompanied by her music director, Mark Hartman, Natalie will t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:32PMFriday, March 5, 2021
Voyeuristic erotic melodrama? Taboo arthouse mystery? Perverse religious dramedy? Yes. Canadian iconoclast Bruce LaBruce’s latest opus is all these things and more. Remaining true to his r…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:48PMFriday, February 26, 2021
Forgotten Silver is quite an elaborate ‘mocumentary’ – how did it all come about?
Peter Jackson — “It was kind of a joke, really. It was one of those fun type of movies to mak…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:48PMWednesday, February 17, 2021
Returning home can be challenging… A clearly distressed twenty-something guy is driving on a lonely country road when he pulls over to call his father. “Dad, it’s me.” Judging by the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:03PMMonday, February 15, 2021
Do you feel as if the past year just passed you by? That summertime came and went, minus all the fun events you usually shared and enjoyed? Are you longing to attend a concert at the Hollywo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:48PMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Open Call for Submissions: closing date is February 21, 2021
The Music Center and the non-profit radio station dublab have partnered to offer A Quiet Scene: L.A., a FREE film compe…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PMThursday, January 28, 2021
Sri Rao in the Geffen Stayhouse world premiere production of Bollywood Kitchen. Directed by Arpita Mukherjee. Photo by Kyle Rosenberg.
Last Saturday night, a solo theater show with a dif…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:54PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is a fascinating documentary about a consummate performer with an idiosyncratic personality.
Statuesque, with a naturally superb physique and dramatic bo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:03PMFriday, January 1, 2021
Dinner and a show–with a difference! This month the Geffen Playhouse is presenting an interactive production. Join with filmmaker and cookbook author Sri Rao as he invites us to prepare a …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:48PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
The Robey Theatre Company co-founders Danny Glover and Producing Artistic Director Ben Guillory.
The Robey Theatre Company Playwright Series: Because Black voices matter. Because Blac…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PMThursday, November 12, 2020
Here is my one-on-one interview with Geena Davis for The Long Kiss Goodnight, from 1996.
Following a mixed reception to their first film together, Cutthroat Island, Geena Davis and husban…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:06PMMonday, November 9, 2020
Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace.
Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace was named West Hollywood’s new Poet Laureate last October, and he’s already off and running with the prestigious moniker. Newly laun…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PMTuesday, September 22, 2020
The deadline to register to vote is Monday, October 19, 2020.
For more information or to register, visit www.BroadwayInHollywood.com/Vote
In commemoration of National Voter Registrat…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:48PMMonday, September 7, 2020
Maestro Ponti.
Don’t miss the opening performance of dazzling piano artistry streamed from the stage of the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz and featuring the Judges Award Winners of the Orange…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PMFriday, July 10, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with the late, great legendary producer Robert Evans for The Kid Stays in the Picture, interviewed in Los Angeles in 2002.
Pictured, above — R…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:03PMFriday, July 3, 2020
After record-breaking opening week sales, Rubicon Theatre Company has announced details related to the first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company’s Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Conce…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:36PMIn light of COVID-19 restrictions, this summer the Rose Bowl, America’s Stadium, has decided to go virtual (but not entirely) with its 94th Annual AmericaFest Celebration so Pasadena l…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:36PMThursday, June 25, 2020
FACEBOOK WATCH PARTY!
This Saturday — June 27 — at 3pm PST / 6pm EST log onto a Facebook Watch Party of the musical Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story? by Vanessa Stewart and Brendan Milbu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:48PMMonday, June 22, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with Kevin Bacon for Sleepers, interviewed at the Venice Biennale in 1996.
Kevin Bacon is wearing a tight fitting teeshirt and jeans – both br…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:03PMWednesday, June 17, 2020
Artistic Director Michael Ritchie announced Center Theatre Group’s 54th season at the Ahmanson Theatre, previously referred to as the 2020 – 2021 season, will begin later than originally…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PMLaksh
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) – the premiere venue for the best annual showcase of independent cinema from India and its Diaspora – announced today a special …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Brimming with history, Père-Lachaise Cemetery is the final resting place of Paris’ rich and famous.
You don’t even need to budge from your armchair to take a trip there, thanks to Ca…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:48PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with the Coen Brothers, for their award-winning film Fargo, first published in April 1996.
Set in Minneapolis, ‘Fargo’ forges true-life crim…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:54PM 
