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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Cultural divide: The nation is changing, but a small Iowa town refuses to live without its movie theater by Jeffrey Fleishman

Percy B. Long wore wingtips and rolled his own cigarettes. He managed the Webster Theater in the days before talkies, when trains ran swift and nights settled over plowed fields that spread …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AM

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

With racial clashes rattling the country, the 'Hamilton' message of inclusion marches on by Jeffrey Fleishman

While the country confronts the violent reemergence of white supremacists, Los Angeles is welcoming an antidote in “Hamilton.” The hip-hop musical about equality and inclusion, officiall…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM

Friday, June 16, 2017

'Rocky' director John G. Avildsen dies at 81 by Jeffrey Fleishman

Oscar-winning director John G. Avildsen, whose “Rocky” sent a shot of adrenaline through movie theaters and turned Sylvester Stallone into one of cinema’s most unforgettable boxers, ha…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:55PM

Friday, June 2, 2017

Racing through Rome before the ticket booth goes dark and other faraway moviegoing adventures by Jeffrey Fleishman

I don’t remember the name of the theater. It was long ago in an alley not far from the Trevi Fountain in Rome. The bus had dropped us off in the rain and we hurried to the ticket booth, wh…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AM

Friday, February 17, 2017

A real life look at the crazy odds and tortured dreams of making it in La La Land by Jeffrey Fleishman

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A real life look at the crazy odds and tortured dreams of making it in La La Land By Jeffrey Fleishman Feb. 17, 2017 Beyond a stretch of thrift stores and …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PM

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Denzel Washington: From young dreams of 'Super Fly' to the aging hurt of 'Fences' by Jeffrey Fleishman

Denzel Washington strolls in dressed all baggy: ingratiating, sly, a man of eloquence and scat, quiet and crescendo. The bulk of him rises. So many things writ into him, saint, conniver, f…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:15PM

Sunday, August 7, 2016

How a new dance gets made: Behind the scenes at American Contemporary Ballet by Jeffrey Fleishman

Emily Parker stood still on pointe. Arms spread like wings, she fixed her gaze somewhere in the distance. Dancers spun around her like ribbons in a breeze. A bend, a twist, a slide of foot,…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PM

Thursday, October 15, 2015

'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh by Jeffrey Fleishman

The anguished warrior cried out from across the ages. "Train your eyes on those evil men, snatch them with your talons and, just as I die at my own hands, may they also be murdered by their …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52AM

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Annette Bening will solo at Geffen Playhouse, but she won't be alone by Jeffrey Fleishman

Annette Bening will perform at the Geffen in 'Ruth Draper's Monologues,' channeling a performer who created dozens of idiosyncratic characters — not unlike Bening herself. Annette Beni…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Long Beach Opera tackles controversy with 'The Death of Klinghoffer' by Jeffrey Fleishman

Other companies have shied from 'The Death of Klinghoffer,' about the Achille Lauro hijacking and killing of Leon Klinghoffer, but Long Beach Opera embraces 'moving piece.'It is an opera tha…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM

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