From the archives! Here is my interview with writer/director John Sayles, first published in June, 1996. In the latest film by Independent filmmaker John Sayles, a skeleton – unearth…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:06PMFrom the archives! Here is my interview with writer/director David Lynch, first published in March, 1997. LOST HIGHWAY, David Lynch’s first film since the disappointing TWIN PEAKS �…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:03PMFrom the archives! Here is my interview with director Tim Burton, first published in December, 1996. Over the past decade, Tim Burton has proven himself to be one of the most imaginati…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:48PMBouchaine Vineyards introduces its “B Together” virtual experiences by reservation each weekday at 12:00 noon. Bouchaine introduced its proprietary virtual wine experiences earlier i…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:06PMHere are links for 179 History Documentaries that you can watch right now, no membership required. All of these shows are available to watch right now without a membership. Just click the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMPoetry, novels, romance, classics — there is a wealth of literature available online. Browse works by Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Conrad, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMIf you’ve always dreamed of cooking along with Julia Child, now’s your chance! The French Chef — every episode of the classic PBS TV show that taught American home cooks how to pre…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMInternational superstar Dolly Parton has concocted the Goodnight With Dolly video series to read us bedtime stories when everyone needs them more than ever! The library’s announcement…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:54PMAvailable to dreamily view now — live video streams from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Although @MontereyAq is closed, their webcams are still streaming. Until they reopen, viewers can…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMParis Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists wi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMThe Philharmonie Berlin is closed until 19 April to help contain the coronavirus. But the orchestra will continue to play for you – in the Digital Concert Hall. The Berliner Philharmoniker…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMAnnouncing an extremely rare opportunity to view a major collection of drawings by master Florentine artist Michelangelo, now on exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The exhaustively deta…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PMKnown for their site-specific operatic works, with elaborate mobile staging, The Industry returns to Los Angeles with a new work about Imperial invasion. Intending to unravel the accepted na…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PMFour Larks’ riveting one-act opera Frankenstein is a visual and aural treat that engages you from beginning to end with its marvelous staging, haunting music and mesmerizing performances. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:06PMCritically acclaimed Family Theatre Musical Matinee Series continues its 50th anniversary celebration at Santa Monica Playhouse with the return of the swingin’, toe-tapping musical comedy�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:06PMThe Soraya’s intimate onstage Jazz Club continues with the extraordinary Camila Meza who will take to the stage and perform with LA’s own wild Up, sitting in with The Nectar Orchestr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:12PMClutching a cocktail as she emerges onto the dimly lit nightclub stage, resplendent in a white satin gown with long white gloves, Karole Foreman channels tragic Blues legend Billie Holliday …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:06AMNational YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) has announced the nominees for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:06PMWajatta is the musical duo of beat-boxer/comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist/DJ/producer John Tejada. The guys’ second single of their second album is out, and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMIn Full Bloom: Transcending Gender is a documentary that follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:54PMRegarding the depiction of real estate developers in film and on TV, it’s common to see the developer presented as the antagonist — the villain. Why is this common trope so enduring? …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:36PMAnnouncing a One-Day-ONLY performance of AFTERNOON OF PEACE, a multi-media live event that tells the story of the atom bomb survivors — known as Hibakusha — of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PMCirque du Soleil’s “Volta.” Courtesy Cirque du Soleil, Photo by Matt Beard. Dazzling spectacle, breathtaking artistry, effortless grace and elegance – you can experience all the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:42PMKino Lorber announces a nationwide Day of Conversation screenings of documentary AFTER PARKLAND on February 12, 2020 to commemorate the second anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PMThe Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 27 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe. The …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMThe Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM) performing its original work Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me, a dance performance about the famed p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMNow on view at National History Museum, from OCTOBER 10, 2019 through APRIL 19, 2020 (free with paid museum admission and Free for Members) is the Science of Horror exhibition. We all s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMThe Industry–the company that created the groundbreaking operatic events Invisible Cities and Hopscotch–now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrat…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:24PMLong Beach Opera (LBO)’s new “UnGala” series continues with Dream Variation–A celebration of Black Composers through history. Dream Variation will play for One Night Only on Satur…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:06AMPoetry combined with exquisite classical music–what a delightful combination! I interviewed Maestro Carlo Ponti in 2015, not long after he formed his Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra. T…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:42PMSix new plays by award-winning, mid-career writers get developmental readings over the course of two weekends as part of Antaeus Theatre Company’s second annual LAB RESULTS series. …
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