Monday, July 23, 2012
In Shakespeare’s macabre and unsettling tragedy, a ruthlessly ambitious Scottish general seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and guidance from a trio of witches. He then c…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:00PMThursday, July 19, 2012
Hello dear readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of an evening of Neil LaBute’s short plays, entitled Short Ends, currently playing at Open Fist Theatre in H…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:45AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
It’s difficult to comprehend why the Geffen Playhouse have commissioned John Pielmeier to adapt author William Peter Blatty’s legendary horror story to the stage for a world-premi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:06PMMonday, July 16, 2012
Theresa Rebeck’s latest play, currently making its West Coast premiere at the Lounge Theatre, is an odd one. Striving to combine scathing satire with black comedy, the production’…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:44PMA performance-inspired family art workshop and 6-day Kids Art Camp is happening in July.
Made In L.A. continues at the Gallery with a free performance by Simone Forti. FAMILY ART WORKSHOP…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:41PMWar Horse, the spectacular stage show that captivated Steven Spielberg, is now playing at the Ahmanson Theater in Downtown LA until July 29, 2012. A unique theatrical experience that combi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:33PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
The second annual Beat the Drum Festival is happening Sunday, July 15, 2012 at the Ford Amphitheatre. Presented by ARTScorpsLA/ACLA Emerging Producers, Beat the Drum: East Los Meets W…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:16PMBody Weather Laboratory presents Flower of the Season 2012: Ecdysis, a solo dance series happening later this month at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA. Now in its seventh year, Flower of th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:50PMThursday, July 12, 2012
Walking out of the Pasadena Playhouse following the conclusion of August Wilson’s fine drama Jitney, and I couldn’t help marveling; how could Wilson have written such an accomplis…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:56PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Dear readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Shakespeare’s classic comedy 12th Night. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page with …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:40PMMonday, July 9, 2012
Sisters Breda (Lisa Pelikan), Clara (Casey Kramer) and Ada (Betsy Zajko) are stuck living in an isolated fishing village on the west coast in Ireland with no escape. The trio is haunted by t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:08PMLAST DAYS to see Where the Great Ones Run, Mark Roberts’ character piece set in a crusty old truck stop diner in rural Indiana. In the corner sits a regular patron, an old man (Tucker Smal…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:29PMFriday, July 6, 2012
Gentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Glaswegian playwright D. C. Jackson’s uproarious and award-winning comedy My Romantic History. Click here to go to the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:38PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Award-winning painter, writer and professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Pam Douglas, launches the second in a trilogy of art shows inspired by earth’s primal energies—Water, F…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:04PMMonday, July 2, 2012
As always, this year’s Los Angeles Zoo’s annual ‘Sunset Safari’ – a special interactive event – was a tremendously fun experience for Safari Club members (those who make donation…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:24PM The Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA), a nonprofit organization, has announced its line-up of feature films to be presented during the 8-day event, July 6—13, 2012in venues…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:18PMSunday, July 1, 2012
Currently on display at the Japan American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) in Downtown LA is a traveling photographic exhibition presented by the Japan Foundation. PART I : Satu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:46PMFriday, June 29, 2012
Artist Michael Heizer’s monumental sculpture Levitated Mass has opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Unfortunately, the giant concrete trough built to afford an all acce…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:50PMThursday, June 28, 2012
TOMORROW NIGHT! DK Dance Factory is launching summer with a Brazilian Carnival style. Experience the sounds and culture of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia to North Hollywood at Skinny’s Lounge on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:37PMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Hello dear readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article for LA Stage Times where I chatted with the three stars of the Broadway musical, War Horse. Andrew Veenstra plays Albert Narracott,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:36PMThe War Horse star (spoiler alert -- he's actually a puppet) isn't doing interviews, but we talk to Andrew Veenstra as the award-winning play opens at the Ahmanson. He plays the boy whose be…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThis year’s 3rd Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival concluded last Sunday night with the Fringe Closing Awards Ceremony, an awards presentation at Fringe Central Station. Known as ‘The Frea…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:19PM Shaky home movie footage of a small town, as viewed from the passenger seat of a car, is projected before our narrator walks up to a music stand with his notes. Ominously hanging upst…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:58PMTuesday, June 26, 2012
The Martin Dancers, a culturally diverse, non-profit company, will perform the company’s repertoire on select Sundays, June through September 30, 2012. In a series of summer concerts stage…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:26PMThe Getty’s Garden Concerts for Kids series returns this August with a line-up of some of the nation’s most popular children’s musical artists. Families can delight in the imaginative …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:04PMSunday, June 24, 2012
Kite-Making with Basir Beria Saturday, June 30, 2012 1–4 pm Fowler Museum UCLA Campus. International kite master Basir Beria, a specialist in Afghan fighter kites, was the kite mast…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, June 22, 2012
Less a solo-performance, more an exercise in terrorizing the audience, former Cirque du Soleil clown Eric Davis coyly emerges from behind a curtain upstage to reveal an exaggeratedly bulbous…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:38PMFrom the moment Bill Sterritt’s play begins, with a maid character carefully pegging up the skirt of another female character to reveal lingerie, garter belt and stockings and then feather…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:43PMMonday, June 18, 2012
At last Saturday night’s 10pm Fringe performance of Four Clowns: That Beautiful Laugh, at Open Fist Theater in Hollywood, I found myself sitting in a large audience of about 200 people all…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:29PMHello theater aficionadi! Here follows a link to my (and fellow LA Weekly critics’) theater reviews for the Hollywood Fringe Festival – HFF 2012. LA Weekly Fringe reviews Mine ar…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:55PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
I had heard raves from my fellow critics about this show, so my expectations were reasonably high. Alas, those expectations were dashed by a play that had its merits (the incisive storyline …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:26PM 
