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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

“Timeshare” – newest review for Stage Raw – Los Angeles theater review by Pauline Adamek

Gentle readers and #LAThtr aficionadi, Here follows my newest review for the critical website Stage Raw — which contains current arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team of journal…

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Monday, November 16, 2015

Exit Review – “The Kill-or-Dies” – Los Angeles theater video review by Pauline Adamek

  Dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or brief video reviews, giving her first impressions of the show. Here’s the newest …

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:33PM
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Mack & Poppy – Let it Snow – Los Angeles cabaret theater report by Pauline Adamek

Feel-good holiday tunes, eggnog, and a sexy Santa named Fernando…? America’s “Best Least-Known Lounge Act” Mack & Poppy will be appearing at Cavern Club Celebrity Theatre…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PM
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Dazzling staging – LA Opera’s “Moby Dick” – Los Angeles opera review by Pauline Adamek

With its themes of insanity, obsession, brotherhood, loss, capitalism, freedom — to name a few — Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is considered one of the great works of American literature…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:34PM
Friday, November 6, 2015

“Naked Black Truth Speakeasy Casino Night” – Los Angeles theater fundraising report by Pauline Adamek

Get your Speakeasy experience this month and support a great theater company as well! The Robey Theatre Company is presenting a special event in November. The Naked Black Truth Speakeasy Cas…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:26PM
Thursday, November 5, 2015

“SPECTRE” entertains on a massive scale – Los Angeles film review by Pauline Adamek

Flashy car chases, colossal explosions, gorgeous International locations, hand-to-hand combat, glamorous women and dastardly villains — SPECTRE is the twenty-fourth movie in the acclaimed …

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:10PM
Monday, November 2, 2015

“Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams” now on exhibit at the Skirball – Los Angeles art photography review by Pauline Adamek

Desolation. Deprivation. In a move that mirrored the incarceration of Jewish people, Gypsies, and numerous marginal groups into European concentration camps during World War II, the North Am…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:00PM
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

“Hopscotch” – a unique, mobile opera traveling through East LA – Los Angeles opera review by Pauline Adamek

Bold, ambitious and complex. A mobile opera for passengers in 24 limousines, where you sit opposite or next to the performers in transit. Hopscotch takes mini posses of audience members on a…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:21PM

“People, Places, Things” – Los Angeles film review by Pauline Adamek

  Writer/director James C. Strouse has fashioned a gentle dramedy about an illustrator grappling with an upheaval in his life. New Zealand comedy star Jemaine Clement (one of the Flight…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:08PM
Monday, October 26, 2015

Latest review for Stage Raw – “Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean” at the Eclectic – Los Angeles theater review by Pauline Adamek

Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean.   This show is RECOMMENDED.   “There’s a danger with one-man shows. What if you don’t like the performer? You’re screwed.” I’m…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:08PM
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

by Pauline Adamek

  Every year, when Halloween rolls around, the Deco District’s Woodlawn Theatre brings Frank-N-Furter and his gang back to roaring life in its raucous production of The Rocky Horror S…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:43PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

“Carrie the KILLER Musical” – Los Angeles musical theater review by Pauline Adamek

Now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre is Carrie the Musical, an exciting musical production, packed with great songs, fantastic voices and performances, and a compelling storyline. Most peo…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:55PM
Monday, October 19, 2015

Lawren Harris at the Hammer Museum – Los Angeles art exhibition review by Pauline Adamek

Comedian, actor and musician and modest art collector Steven Martin has made his first foray into art curation with a new art exhibit at the Hammer Museum; The Idea of North: The Paintings o…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:15PM
Thursday, October 15, 2015

“Seven Spots on the Sun” – Los Angeles theater review by Pauline Adamek

Martín Zimmerman’s one-act drama Seven Spots on the Sun explores the impulse of revenge, and the notion of redemption, against the backdrop of a horrifying civil war. The lives of two cou…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:42PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Exit Review – “Carrie the Musical” – Los Angeles theater video review by Pauline Adamek

Greetings dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or video reviews. Here’s the newest Exit Review for the play Carrie The Music…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:58PM
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows – Photography exhibition at the Getty Museum by Pauline Adamek

The first major exhibition in the United States of photography by Japanese artist Ishiuchi Miyako, as well as the first time in many of these works are on view, Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shad…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PM
Monday, October 12, 2015

GRAND AVE ARTS: ALL ACCESS – Los Angeles art and concert event report by Pauline Adamek

GRAND AVE ARTS: ALL ACCESS LA’s home for world-class arts and culture is Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. The venues that line this street are set to turn inside out with open reh…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:54PM
Friday, October 9, 2015

Exit Review – Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra “Cinderella” – Los Angeles theater video review by Pauline Adamek

  Hello ballet and #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or video reviews. Here’s the newest Exit Review for the Mariinsky Ba…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:20PM

Newest review for Stage Raw – “Wombat Man: The Cereal Murders” at the Eclectic – Los Angeles theater review by Pauline Adamek

  Wombat Man: The Cereal Murders The newest offering at the quirky Eclectic Company Theatre in North Hollywood is Wombat Man: The Cereal Murders, written, directed and produced by Chris…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:20PM
Thursday, October 8, 2015

“Appropriate” – Los Angeles theater review by Pauline Adamek

In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ domestic drama Appropriate, three siblings squabble over an inheritance, piling on the recriminations. It’s well-trodden terrain for many playwrights and scree…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:32PM
Monday, October 5, 2015

“Carrie The Musical” – opening at the historic Los Angeles Theatre on October 8 – Los Angeles musical theater interview report by Pauline Adamek

“We’re bringing Broadway back to Broadway!” So claims Jack W. Batman, co-producer, along with Bruce Robert Harris, of Carrie The Musical, which opens at the historic Los Angeles Theatr…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:52PM
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Exit Review – “uCarmen” – Los Angeles theater video review by Pauline Adamek

Hello dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or video reviews. Here’s the newest Exit Review for the play uCarmen, which opene…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:41PM
Friday, October 2, 2015

“The Sound of Music” – at the Ahmanson Theatre – Los Angeles musical theater review by Pauline Adamek

Heavenly harmonies, a singing nun and a passel of adorable children — family entertainment doesn’t get more wholesome than The Sound of Music, which opened this week at the Ahmanson Thea…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:17PM
Thursday, October 1, 2015

“The Ghoulmaster’s Haunted Playhouse” – latest review for Stage Raw – Los Angeles theater review by Pauline Adamek

Greetings dear fans of #LAThtr. Here is my newest theater review for Stage Raw, the critical theater site. We recommend this spooky stage  production: The Ghoulmaster’s Haunted Playho…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:27PM
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Story Pirates & Family Art Day – October 10th at Pepperdine University – Los Angeles theater report by Pauline Adamek

Everyone has a story to tell — even kids! Story Pirates bring their all-ages sketch-comedy musical magic to Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University on Saturday, October 10 at 11 a.m.…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:41PM
Friday, September 25, 2015

“Cinderella” – The Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra perform at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in October – Los Angeles ballet theater report by Pauline Adamek

One of the most powerful classical story-ballets, Alexei Ratmanky’s Cinderella, will grace the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage on October 8-11, 2015 as Russia’s world-renowned Ma…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:56PM

Exit Review – “La Mélancolie des Dragons” – Los Angeles theater video review by Pauline Adamek

Latest vlog! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or short video reviews. Here’s the latest Exit Review for the absurd show La Mélancolie des …

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:39PM
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

VAN Beethoven – Los Angeles classical music review by Pauline Adamek

Imagine standing on the stage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in front of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, just as Maestro Gustavo Dudamel walks up to the podium. Suddenly, the scene erupts wi…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:15PM
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz’s Season Opening to feature Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra – classical concert report by Pauline Adamek

This Saturday — don’t miss this much anticipated evening featuring guest soprano Stacey Tappan and the Los Angeles debut of the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra. Théâtre Raymond Kabb…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PM
Monday, September 21, 2015

Exit Review – “One Man, Two Guv’nors” – Los Angeles theater video review by Pauline Adamek

Latest Exit Review!  Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of ‘vlogs’ or video reviews. Here’s the next Exit Review for the hilarious musical play One Man…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:56PM
Friday, September 18, 2015

The Broad opens in Downtown Los Angeles – art review by Pauline Adamek

The Veil. The Vault. Mysterious and incredibly feminine. Both cavernous and saturated with natural light. An amazing art collection, housed in an astonishing building that — itself — is …

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:21PM

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