Sunday, October 2, 2011
Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center announces the eighth season of this international dance series. Seven companies representing the United States, Spain, Brazil, the Netherl…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:11PMFriday, September 30, 2011
There’s a tsunami of retrospective art coming our way, on track to engulf LA. Over the next six months, more than sixty (60!) museums and arts venues, from Santa Barbara to San Diego, will…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:42PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Muffins and basil bushes become metaphors for two destroyed marriages and a quartet of shattered friendships in LA theatre darling Theresa Rebeck’s comedic domestic drama Poor Behavior, ma…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PM Gentle readers, this week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is a rave for Kristina Poe’s savagely funny and astonishingly perceptive play, Love Sick about a rejected woman on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:27PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
The Fifth World Festival of Sacred Music (WFSM) will feature an astonishing 832 Artists who will be performing in thirty-two events devoted to sacred music and dance. The Festival’s intent…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMSunday, September 25, 2011
no venue no schedule no charge That’s the motto for Flash Theater L.A. – a new theatrical venture being produced by Playwrights’ Arena. Flash Theater L.A. is a hybrid of …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Taylor Lautner, the hunky young co-star of the Twilight movie series, has graduated to leading man status. Lautner goes full throttle for his first solo vehicle, not only taking on the kind …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, September 22, 2011
This week I have a rave review in the LA Weekly – A Widow of No Importance is a super-fun comedy by a new playwright, Shane Sakhrani, and directed brilliantly by Shaheen Vaaz. Presente…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:46PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
“Less yackin’, more wackin’!” That’s what fight director David Woolley sometimes says to his students when teaching them how to devise fight scenes. This is exactly what I wanted t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:42PMMusic lovers seeking an exceptionally rare concert experience will be thrilled to learn about the opportunity to hear private musical performances in intimate and salubrious settings. (Scrol…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:30PM Gooey, yummy, messy – lip-smacking good. Who doesn’t love tucking into chicken wings and mini chicken drumettes all smothered in delicious sauces and washing it all back with loca…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:47PMThe NoHo Taco Cook-off Competition is happening at the Sears store, in North Hollywood, on Saturday, September 24th. Join in for this lively family event, featuring 20 local contestants comp…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
The nominees for the 2011 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards were announced last night at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. The nominations were revealed by 2010 Ovation Award winners Brendan Hun…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:25PMThis month L.A. Theatre Works moves to its new venue at the James Bridges Theater on the campus of UCLA. They’re opening their 2011-12 season with Henrik Ibsen’s classic play A Doll Hous…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:43PMFriday, September 16, 2011
The announcement of the 2011 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominees has been set for Monday, September 19th at 7:00 pm. The event will be hosted by the Falcon Theatre, which is lo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:55PMEmbrace the mystery of Downtown LA. When a prominent real estate developer ends up dead, a cache of stories is discovered immersed deep in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. From the mouths,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:57PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Subliminal Projects is proud to present its opening fall show 3 Kings, opening this weekend with a reception for the artists on Saturday, September 17, from 8—11pm. In classic NYC S…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:01PMThis week I have a second review for the LA Weekly, the bittersweet life story of the famous Hollywood duo, Laurel and Hardy, now playing at the Falcon Theatre. Happy reading! photo b…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:53PMMy first review this week for the LA Weekly is of David J’s spooky musical play about the gruesome Black Dahlia murder, The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse, now playing at Bootleg…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:41PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia, an exhibition that brings together 28 large-scale figurative paintings and drawings and a new…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:15PMA day to celebrate baking, creativity and everything pie. LACMA is this year’s host for the 3rd Annual KCRW Good Food Pie Contest, where everyone from home-cooks to professionals will be j…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:29PMMonday, September 12, 2011
Here’s a new interview with the young playwright, Shane Sakhrani, and the director, Shaheen Vaaz, of a new comedy – A Woman of No Importance opening this week at the David Henry …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:49PMEast West Players ventures into contemporary Bombay with Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance. The title takes off from Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance -- a signal that it's a co…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:21PMSunday, September 11, 2011
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) offers music lovers an opportunity to enjoy five intimate, elegant and entertaining LACO à la Carte fundraising events pairing delectable international …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:00PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Freshly released into the ether (interwebs) is my latest feature article for LA Stage Times, an interview with artist David J about his new musical play, The Chanteuse and the Devil’s …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:43PMDavid J's refashions his Black Dahlia song cycle into a new multi-disciplinary musical play The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse that presents a chilling theory regarding the identity of the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:10PMTuesday, September 6, 2011
An eclectic and influential exhibition of the work of more than forty prominent Hispanic artists, ¡Adelante! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond opens this weekend at the Museum at F…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:42PMMonday, September 5, 2011
Apart from an obviously fake juke box, designer Gary Guidinger’s complicated set replicates a divey bar with astounding authenticity, from the beat-up dartboard, sticky-looking floor and s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:34PMSunday, September 4, 2011
This Friday, September 9th, there will be an opening reception at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) at Bergamot Station of a vast exhibition entitled Beatrice Wood: Career Woman—Drawi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:55PMThursday, September 1, 2011
THE COMPANY is staging Glad Day, artist Jay Stuckey’s first solo show at their gallery, on exhibit from September 3 through October 1, 2011. A selection of large-scale paintings w…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:59PMThis is the last weekend to catch Rogue Machine’s emotionally hard-hitting and topical play, Small Engine Repair. John Pollono’s smash hit play has been extended multiple times, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:05PM 
