Thursday, March 11, 2021
BOLÉRO: BEAUTIFUL SYMPTOM OF A TERRIBLE DISEASE FOR BOTH PAINTER AND COMPOSER Based on true events and incorporating research and interviews conducted by playwright Jake Broder as a Hellman…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:39PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
HAIL, CAESAR! Shakespeare’s 1599 history play has, of course, had many lives – conservative as well as wildly interpretive – which has kept the slain Dictator of Rome in the forefront …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:03PMThursday, August 22, 2019
ENDURING THE MONSTER Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote her famous “ghost story,” Frankenstein, in 1818, while on a vacation on Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
EARLY BIRDS GETS THE BIRD The phrase “early bird” generally denotes someone who is an early-morning riser or who shows up anywhere early, words usually attributed to the elderly. In Dana…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59PMSaturday, December 1, 2018
LOSADA COLADA! Looking at photos of Euriamis Losada, it’s no wonder the female (and some part of the male) populace goes gaga at his looks on his muscular 6’ frame. Cuban-born and USA-ra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:14PMSaturday, March 10, 2018
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH AMBASSADOR Pat Kinevane, 51, is a native of rural Ireland — specifically County Cork — now living and working in Dublin, the capitol of Eire. A qualified sp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:18PMSaturday, August 5, 2017
MOVE OVER BOND AND BOURNE; HAMILTON’S IN TOWN These two hard-hitting spy thrillers, filmed in 2012, are based on well-known novels by the French-Swedish journalist, Jan Guillou (b. 194…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:23PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT LIKE IT At its new home in Glendale, Antaeus Theatre’s second play, As You Like It, is an odd duck of a production. As is its norm, Antaeus “partner-casts” ea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:21PMSaturday, July 22, 2017
A STEADY PLAY What police personnel go through day-by-day isn’t really fully understood by civilians: the life-and-death tensions that alternate with the inevitable boredom and the public�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:12AMSunday, July 16, 2017
A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL Tom Jacobson’s latest play, The Devil’s Wife, is a droll take on old European tales regarding evil demons and feckless wives. Here, the Devil, in the guise of ric…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:55PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
CURE YOUR POLITICAL HANGOVER WITH CULTURE CLASH Founded in 1984, L.A.’s very own veteran satirical Latino comedy troupe, “Culture Clash” (Herbert Siguenza, Ric Salinas and Richard …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47AMSunday, June 18, 2017
A BRUTAL TRUE-LIFE EVENT IS THE BASIS FOR POWERFUL THEATER Katharine Cortez’ 80-minute take on the after-effects of the brutal slaying of 49 people at the LGBT dance-bar, PULSE, a year ag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:43PMThursday, June 15, 2017
ELEMENTARY BUT AMUSING Unbound Productions takes original material and sets it in vaguely similar settings using carefully-chosen actors and company directors; the company has been producin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
THERE’S NO INTERFERING WITH GREAT THEATER What an extraordinary piece of theater was this Hollywood Fringe entry from Pepperdine University in Malibu. The Interference confronts the di…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:39PMSunday, May 21, 2017
SWEETHEART DEAL IS A MISSED ROMANCE There’s been scant theater documenting the plight of the Latino farm workers and their fight for economic and racial equality, especially in California.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29AMMonday, April 10, 2017
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS As a part of A Noise Within’s 25th Season, co-Artistic Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott helms an extraordinary production of this 1964 hit musical, Man of La Mancha, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:11AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
UP ON THE ROOF Tennessee Williams’ complete oeuvre went from totally brilliant to completely flat as he evolved in his work, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in the early ’80s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:42PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
A CAROUSEL FOR THE AGES Concert versions of famous Broadway fare are almost always exciting and delightful. But the Live from Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55AMWednesday, May 13, 2015
The Doctor Who series – one of the longest-running adventure dramas in television history – is definitely not for everyone’s taste. The stories, all science fiction in nature, tend to …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Adapted from the crime novels of James Runcie, the TV series Grantchester is set in a small bucolic section of England, namely Cambridgeshire, and sees youngish vicar Sidney Chambers (James …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:26PMMonday, March 23, 2015
It is the Age of Enlightenment, even in monarchy-bound Sweden, and the police force there is essentially honest, but hemmed-in by royal connections. But the new district police commissioner …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:20PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Scientology, as a religion and as a semi-cult, has been earning censure since it was first launched in 1953, thanks to its dubious connections to the norms of religion: belief in a strong af…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:00AMThursday, January 29, 2015
Critically acclaimed English playwright, screenwriter and theatre & film director Sir David Hare has also written extensively for television. His sensational trilogy about ex-spy Johnny …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Based on the Stephen Daldry/Lee Hall 2000 film (which starred Jamie Bell), this 2008 musical version, Billy Elliot The Musical (music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall), earned its …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:00PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
The fourth season of Spiral (aka Engregages) – a remarkable French television cop and legal drama set in Paris – is as superbly plot-heavy and character-sized as the previous three. The …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:13PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Josefina López has made numerous valuable contributions to Latino culture. You can see it in her theatre and filmic writing, in Casa 0101, a Chicano-theatre she founded in her beloved East …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:26PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
American TV and film actor and musician John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was one of the great 20th century film actors, a master of comedy and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Clown Bar is an absolutely bizarre bit of madness about clowns that plays Thursday nights only in Pasadena. Labeled “clown noir,” and based on the premise of a bar run by and for clowns,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:50PMMonday, January 5, 2015
The Almighty Johnsons is an entertaining, if preposterous, New Zealand-produced TV series (it lasted three seasons) that is skewed towards the young and impressionable. Expect a lot of frank…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:57AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
The crooner/actor, Bing Crosby (1903-1977), became an American cultural icon rather early in his career, when he sang (or crooned, a useful codeword for romantic sexuality in the voice) over…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:33PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
One thing is for sure: Los Angeles is not now, nor has it ever been, renowned for its whole-hearted support for the artistic world of ballet. A shame, for outsider dance is very much appreci…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:17PM 
