Thursday, September 1, 2011
This 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 02:05PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
Roll up! Roll up! The Mental Head Circus is in town, performing one Sunday per month at King King in Hollywood, as the nightclub’s monthly resident show. Upcoming show dates for the remain…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:28PMThis week’s theatre review for LA Weekly is the brilliant play by Marie Jones, Stones in His Pockets. Now playing at the Zephyr Theatre in West Hollywood. Click here and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:45PMMonday, August 29, 2011
Dreamy, contemplative photographic images of our planet’s firmament are currently on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum; In Focus: The Sky, a thematically-installed exhibition of p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:43PMSunday, August 28, 2011
*** Written and performed by Shelley Bennett, Condemned is a one-woman show playing for one night only! Standup comic and actress Shelley Bennett takes us on a bizarrely funny journey from S…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:00PMThursday, August 25, 2011
Check it out — here is this week’s review for the LA Weekly, of Rick Foster’s rather reverent play about the luminous star of stage and screen, Vivien Leigh: Vivien.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:31PMGirl power! Women unite!! Simply because she believes ‘Courage is contagious,’ writer Rivka Solomon has published a book that champions women and their valiant acts. Solomon, with assi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:20PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Exciting news, gentle readers, especially if you have a smart phone. We have just launched the mobile version of our timely, happening Arts Webmagazine. Now, if you visit ArtsBeatLA via your…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:58PMReady For Our Close-Up – a play showcase and benefit for The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project – is happening this weekend only, Aug 26 – 28, in Hollywood, at the Stella Adler Thea…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:12PMSunday, August 21, 2011
Ennio, featuring Ennio Marchetto – ‘The Living Paper Cartoon’ – will play an exclusive, limited engagement for one week only, from August 23 – 28, 2011, at The Pasadena Playhouse. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMSaturday, August 20, 2011
Looking for something to do this Sunday (tomorrow)? Sunday August 21st is your last chance to catch to check out Intimate Opera Pasadena’s (IOP’s) production of the brilliant and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:06PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Please enjoy my latest theatre review for LA Weekly, of the world premier of a new comedy Next Window, Please, written by Doug Haverty and notable for its almost exclusively female cast. Hap…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PM There’s a cool Art Block Party planned for tomorrow (Saturday) night, over at the Lofts at NoHo Common. Music, Dance, film and of course Art will be happening on Weddington Street,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:34PMThursday, August 18, 2011
To celebrate its two-year anniversary, ArtsBeatLA has just been relaunched with a brand new layout and design theme. I am also starting a weekly Op-Ed column, paired with a links list as a r…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:37AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Welcome a new section where I plan to opinionate wildly as I discuss topics of interest.
You have been warned!
Thanks to a rather unusual incident at last Friday night’s play, I’ve…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:20PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
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The Robey Theatre Company, Los Angeles’ acclaimed African American theatre company based downtown at Los Angeles Theatre Center, is on track to scoop the pool at the forthcoming NAA…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:26PMMonday, August 15, 2011
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A photo exhibition, entitled Vanishing Point, currently on display in Little Tokyo, shows a Japanese “healing” town before and after the disaster. There will be a reception and di…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:39PMSunday, August 14, 2011
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Melissa James Gibson’s ingeniously constructed drama, This, is far too clever for its own good.
Review by Pauline Adamek
Sure, it touches on deep (if bourgeois) themes, such a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PMFriday, August 12, 2011
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Gentle readers, please enjoy my interview with a legend of daytime drama, Judith Chapman, who is starring in a solo-show about another legend of stage and screen, the magnificent Vivi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:28PM***
Macy Gray joins Rhythm & Roots – a
benefit performance at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood for one night only!
Report by Pauline Adamek
Grammy Award-winning, multi-pl…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:27PMThursday, August 11, 2011
Soap opera star Judith Chapman tackles a solo show about the troubled movie star Vivien Leigh at Rogue Machine, where Chapman was the first board president. Rick Foster's play is set just da…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:31PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
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Gentle readers, please enjoy my interview with Sandra Bernhard, who has a new album of stand-up comedy and a new live show entitled I Love Being Me, Don't You? coming to LA for two we…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:20PMSandra Bernhard is discussing her new album, I Love Being Me Don't You? A blend of her signature brand of critically acclaimed comedy with two musical covers that showcase her idiosyncratic …
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Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly, of a semi-amusing, if cringe-worthily clichéd, autobiographical comedy by playwright Kenny Solms --
I…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:14PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
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Witness the spectacle of nature’s fury from a safe distance – Lucas Jackson’s magnificent images of the recent volcanic explosion in Iceland, entitled Eyjafjallajokull: Images …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:51PMSunday, August 7, 2011
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Experience a magical evening of grace, beauty and skill in the form of traditional and modernized Korean Dance. The Kwan-Gyu Lim Dance Company will perform at the Ford Amphitheatre on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:12PMThursday, August 4, 2011
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Come and celebrate with the cast at a special screening of the delightful romantic comedy feature film Luminarias. This Gala event is being held at Los Angeles Theatre Center on Augus…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:08PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
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“Chanbara” Samurai Stories – featuring exciting Japanese sword fighting – is now playing David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo (home of the East West Players).
Running …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:18PMSunday, July 31, 2011
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New York’s 2009 Drama Desk Award winner Celebrity Autobiography has returned to Los Angeles at The Broad Stage. Created by Emmy-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack, and developed…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:04PMFriday, July 29, 2011
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Breathtakingly inventive and theatrically innovative, the hit show Watson is BACK for a short season of only three weekends at Sacred Fools Theatre Company.
Review by Pauline Adame…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:04PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
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Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly, covering week two of the Eclectic Company Theatre's eighth annual month-long festival of new plays, calle…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:57PM 
