Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Woody Allen’s newest movie, Blue Jasmine, provides a platform for a truly virtuosic performance by Cate Blanchett that is sure to be remembered at Oscar voting time. Why is there so mu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:44PMAn exciting new summer festival, CIRQUE-A-PALOOZA – a Summer Spectacle & Comic Calamity, created and directed by Stefan Haves – is now running at The Pasadena Playhouse. Mainstag…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Captured Aural Phantasy Theater (CAPT) is proud to celebrate its 5th year performing in Los Angeles with a return to the historic El Cid for another season of monthly shows! Beginning THIS S…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMMonday, July 29, 2013
An existential “comedy” in the bleakest sense, Bruce Norris’ new play A Parallelogram posits the question “What would you do if you knew your future but couldn’t do anything to cha…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:53PMThursday, July 25, 2013
Gloomy, moody, spooky—in the best possible way, Wake Not The Dead is a sexy and dazzling new rock ’n’ roll Goth Opera currently playing at King King nightclub in Hollywood. ***Final pe…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:58PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Celebrating 50 years of Flamenco,
El Cid presents a 2-Day Flamenco Festival. Experience the Passion and Beauty of Spain at the iconic Silver Lake Flamenco Venue, El Cid, this coming Saturd…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:19PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
::STOP PRESS:: Watson 2: The Dark Art of Harry Houdini has been extended through Saturday, August 17, 2013 Now playing at Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood. Previously reviewed: Watso…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMMonday, July 22, 2013
::STOP PRESS:: This marvelous play has been extended through August 18, 2013. Previously reviewed: It’s not every day you get to be heavyweight champion of the world—for a professional s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:50PM This Sunday *ONLY* Charles Gaines Ensemble featuring Wadada Leo Smith Sunday, July 28, 2013 3pm MOCA Grand Avenue Ahmanson Auditorium MOCA presents a one-day-only performance by the C…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:34PMFriday, July 19, 2013
Opening Saturday, July 27, Cella Gallery is pleased to present Paper & Pulp—a group exhibit featuring collage and cut-paper work by the following artists: L. Croskey, Ashley Fisher, Ka…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMThursday, July 18, 2013
Hello readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Suburban Showgirl, now playing at NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:04PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
From the moment the curtain goes up and our diva is belting out a song (in a nightclub setting) while flanked by two smooth back up singers, you know you are in good hands and are heading fo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:45PM A dazzling new Rock and Roll Vampire Opera is taking the stage at King King in Hollywood this summer. A tragic love story finds a couple torn apart by the grave and surrounded by Vamp…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:26PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Gentle readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Fantasticks, now playing at Sierra Madre Playhouse in Sierra Madre. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:51PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Currently playing on Friday nights at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre in NoHo is a presentation of four adaptations of short works from the early-to-mid 1800s by Edgar Allan Poe: the shor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:13PMSaturday, July 6, 2013
Brett Womack and Rachel Bowman (pictured) are currently performing their spectacular aerial show—a gravity-defying silks act—at the swanky retro Edison nightclub, in Downtown LA. Using …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:26PMFriday, July 5, 2013
Hello readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Judy Show, now playing at The Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:07PM French filmmaker Alain Resnais Is Still Turning ’Em Out at 91 It’s difficult to imagine an American filmmaker making anything as abstruse as this latest film …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:50PMThursday, July 4, 2013
The South Pasadena Arts Council will be participating in the next Arts Crawl on Saturday July 13, from 5-9 pm with two collaborative projects. SPARC is collaborating with photographic artist…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:11PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Gorgeous photography of stunning vistas (Monument Valley). Action-packed and well-executed stunts in and on fast-moving steam trains. Johnny Depp. That good enough for you? Then go and see G…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:54PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Best of Fringe Extensions returns for a fourth year of extended runs of the greatest hits of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, running July 2 – 28 at five Hollywood venues. Produced by Combin…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:55PM‘Superman’ has long been a valuable asset for Warner Bros. Studios. The fictional comic book superhero, who featured in DC Comics publications as far back as the 1930s, is considered an …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:11PMMonday, July 1, 2013
The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival concluded last night with the annual Award Ceremony and Closing Night Party. Here follows a photo essay of the awards ceremony. Reporting by Pauline Adamek…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:39PMNext time can the theme be ‘Bikini Beach Party’?! It was an enthusiastic if overheated crowd that packed the house to the rafters at Fringe Central last night to witness the exci…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:11PMThursday, June 27, 2013
Gentle readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini, the exciting sequel now playing at Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood. We ga…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:51PMEver roared, hooted and giggled so hard you actually became afraid you might not be able to stop? The Heat, starring two of Hollywood’s top comediennes—Sandra Bullock and Melissa McC…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:14PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Newly opened (last Friday night) at Sacred Fools is the next exciting installment of the ‘Watson’ franchise. READ ALL ABOUT IT! Here follows my interview with playwright a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:10PMJaime Robledo's first Watson play was a hit for Sacred Fools. Now a sequel, Watson the Dark Art of Harry Houdini, opens, with Robledo again directing and with another Ryan Johnson score.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:35PMMonday, June 24, 2013
Bring a picnic and enjoy FREE ballet under the stars! The Music Center will partner with Los Angeles Ballet to present that company’s productions of Agon and Rubies on Saturday even…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:40PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Hello readers! This week I’m still covering the Hollywood Fringe Festival for the LA Weekly, so my two reviews are of The Real Housekeepers of Studio City , and Mud, both still …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PMThroughout July, Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Free for All: MOVIE MONDAYS Mondays at dusk (approximately 8 p.m.) Arts Plaza. FREE. The Wedding Singer July 8, 2013 If…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:57PM 
