Monday, January 26, 2015
Many visitors to the Getty Center describe its buildings, the views and the experience as “zen,” helping achieve a meditative state of mind. “Zen” is yet another example of a Buddhis…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMFriday, January 23, 2015
Aratani World Series continues its 1st season with a lineup of powerfully expressive and exceptionally diverse music and dance performances at the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo, Los Angele…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, January 22, 2015
Offering two different presentations over two nights only, the internationally acclaimed Russian National Ballet Theatre will dance a special Valentine’s Day weekend season at Valley Perfo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:10PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
As a gong strikes, sounds from 5,000-year-old Chinese instruments rise to blend with a 40-piece Western orchestra. Sixty dancers take the stage in front of a 30-foot tall video backdrop as a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:31PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
This Saturday only, an exciting day-long program, Luxury and Liberation: Art and Revolution in 18th-Century France, grants you the opportunity to immerse yourself in French extravagance and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:28PMCelebrate the talents and creativity of people with disabilities at the Festival of Human Abilities. It’s being staged once again at the Aquarium of the Pacific this coming weekend, Ja…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:23PMThursday, January 15, 2015
Only a few performances remain for The Queen of Colors, a delightful, hour-long play for small children now playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. This ingenious and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:04PM
Hello dear readers and #LAThtr aficionadi,
Here follows my latest review for the critical website Stage Raw — which contains current arts and theater coverage from our intrepid te…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:15AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Kicking off with an opening night premier party tomorrow night, the 20th Annual Los Angeles Art Show runs from January 14–18, 2015 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown L.A.
The…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:51PMFriday, January 9, 2015
The ‘Taken’ franchise of action dramas, starring a fit and towering Liam Neeson as an imposing ex-CIA / Black Ops hard-man, rivals Die Hard for its taut storylines and mind-blowing smash…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:11PMThursday, January 8, 2015
This Sunday, the Skirball Cultural Center is holding the first of two salon events that complement their major fall exhibition, Light & Noir: Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood, 1933-1950,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:55PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
A showbiz couple and their family of rescue pups delight in an exquisitely appointed hilltop home in Sherman Oaks.
As you drive up the winding streets off rustic Benedict Canyon, it is easy …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:09PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
By the late nineteenth century, we find Paris — the “City of Lights” — at its most glittering. The long depression is over, and an exciting era “La Belle Epoque” — as it would…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:01AMMonday, January 5, 2015
Paris — the magical city of light. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to visit the glittering capital city of France, then you’ll know this mythical metropolis thrillingly lives up to …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:58AMThursday, January 1, 2015
Special sneak peek!
This Saturday only, die-hard fans of the hit TV series on PBS, Downton Abbey, will have the golden opportunity to attend a special advanced screening of the popular perio…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:06PMWednesday, December 31, 2014
Dear loyal subscribers & avid readers!
ArtsBeatLA wishes you all a fruitful and prosperous 2015!
Warm regards from Pauline Adamek.
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:53PMNoël Coward’s wonderfully daffy supernatural comedy Blithe Spirit is now playing at the Ahmanson, in downtown Los Angeles, with the marvelous (almost) nonagenarian Angela Lansbury portray…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:40PM
Learn about comic history and enjoy some great cocktails this Sunday night!
For one night only, Captured Aural Phantasy Theater — LA’s original comic book performance group — pr…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:36PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Dear readers and #LAThtr aficionadi,
Here follows my latest review for the critical website Stage Raw — which contains the latest arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team of jo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:21PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
It’s not often that the abrupt extinguishing of stage lights at the end of Act One elicits an audible and nervous gasp from the audience, but that’s what happened when the plot of Luna G…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:55PMFriday, December 12, 2014
Dear #LAThtr fans!
Here is an intro and link to my latest theater review for the critical website Stage Raw which contains the latest arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, December 11, 2014
Evocative and dreamy — three performances remain for Florencia en el Amazonas, the stunning and romantic modern opera composed by Daniel Catán, with a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:27PMMonday, December 8, 2014
A unique holiday play about love and sacrifice, created from stories shared by members of the University Park immigrant community during workshops with professional theater artists, is playi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:07PMReleased in 1989, the feature film “Farewell To The King” starred Nick Nolte and was directed by John Milius. Based on the 1969 novel L’Adieu au Roi by Pierre Schoendoerffer, it te…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:43PMFriday, December 5, 2014
As cheery as a Christmas card and as corny as a popcorn ball, White Christmas is mandatory fare for holiday-minded theatergoers — especially when it comes wrapped in a production like the …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThursday, December 4, 2014
What could be better than a low-stress, mini-holiday right here in L.A.? Anyone up for a cool ‘staycation’? Okay — I’ll admit it – this deal is also available to out-of-towners…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:21PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Spring (Jeanne Demarsy) by Édouard Manet, acquired at auction by the J. Paul Getty Museum on November 5, has gone on public view. The gorgeous painting is hanging in the West Pavilion with …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:46PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
About six months ago, towards the end of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Colin Mitchell over at Bitter Lemons hosted the critics panel. Sadly, it wasn’t all that well attended, but a bunch …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:52PMMonday, December 1, 2014
Coming up this weekend, on Sunday December 7, 2014, is the next concert presented by Le Salon de Musiques, entitled Expressionism & Impressionism. This new season features extraordinary�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:21PMFriday, November 28, 2014
The Getty is presenting a film series, Czech Film and the Prague Spring, on Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7, at the Getty Center.
This event is FREE (reservations required).
Feminism…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:18PMAratani World Series announces its 1st season with a lineup of eight powerfully expressive and exceptionally diverse music and dance performances at the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo, Los …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:39PM 
