The Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA), a nonprofit organization, has announced its line-up of feature films to be presented during the 8-day event, July 6"13, 2012in venues t…
Currently on display at the Japan American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) in Downtown LA is a traveling photographic exhibition presented by the Japan Foundation. PART I : Satu…
Artist Michael Heizer's monumental sculpture Levitated Mass has opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Unfortunately, the giant concrete trough built to afford an all access…
TOMORROW NIGHT! DK Dance Factory is launching summer with a Brazilian Carnival style. Experience the sounds and culture of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia to North Hollywood at Skinny's Lounge on F…
Hello dear readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article for LA Stage Times where I chatted with the three stars of the Broadway musical, War Horse. Andrew Veenstra plays Albert Narracott,…
The War Horse star (spoiler alert -- he's actually a puppet) isn't doing interviews, but we talk to Andrew Veenstra as the award-winning play opens at the Ahmanson. He plays the boy whose be…
This year's 3rd Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival concluded last Sunday night with the Fringe Closing Awards Ceremony, an awards presentation at Fringe Central Station. Known as 'The Freaks,'…
Shaky home movie footage of a small town, as viewed from the passenger seat of a car, is projected before our narrator walks up to a music stand with his notes. Ominously hanging upst…
The Martin Dancers, a culturally diverse, non-profit company, will perform the company's repertoire on select Sundays, June through September 30, 2012. In a series of summer concerts staged …
The Getty's Garden Concerts for Kids series returns this August with a line-up of some of the nation's most popular children's musical artists. Families can delight in the imaginative and wh…
Kite-Making with Basir Beria Saturday, June 30, 2012 1"4 pm Fowler Museum UCLA Campus. International kite master Basir Beria, a specialist in Afghan fighter kites, was the kite master…
Less a solo-performance, more an exercise in terrorizing the audience, former Cirque du Soleil clown Eric Davis coyly emerges from behind a curtain upstage to reveal an exaggeratedly bulbous…
From the moment Bill Sterritt's play begins, with a maid character carefully pegging up the skirt of another female character to reveal lingerie, garter belt and stockings and then feather-d…
At last Saturday night's 10pm Fringe performance of Four Clowns: That Beautiful Laugh, at Open Fist Theater in Hollywood, I found myself sitting in a large audience of about 200 people all s…
Hello theater aficionadi! Here follows a link to my (and fellow LA Weekly critics’) theater reviews for the Hollywood Fringe Festival – HFF 2012. LA Weekly Fringe reviews Mine ar…
I had heard raves from my fellow critics about this show, so my expectations were reasonably high. Alas, those expectations were dashed by a play that had its merits (the incisive storyline …
Feathers, sheer white chiffon, frilly can-can skirts, sequins, bling, fishnets and thong bikinis " CARPE NOCTEM ('seize the night') is an intimate evening of authentic French Cabaret dance n…
Here is another review for LA Weekly of a Fringe show that was less than impressive… Before the Red Trees Come A man-baby – an everyman-type – awakens in a room and learns …
Dear readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of No Way Around but Through, written by and co-starring Scott Caan and Melanie Griffith (as his Mom!) Click here to go to the …
Dear theater fans, The excitement was palpable this past weekend, and the Fringe hadn't even started! Several shows opted to hold 'preview' performances for the critics, but they were well-a…
Fun, ghoulish and fantastic " don't miss this re-worked Broadway musical, now playing at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. Despite a woefully conceived character and performance (Morticia, …
Christopher Marlowe's classic Elizabethan drama, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is re-imagined as a Western comedy of errors. The hilarious 'improv' trio Sound & Furyâ„¢, Ric…
Anaconda by Sarah Doyle. Following last year's presentation at the Fringe, Feeling Feeling, writer/director Sarah Doyle ventures into far darker territory with Anaconda. Hers is a controvers…
Theater aficionadi, the Hollywood Fringe Festival is almost upon us for the third year in a row. Running from June 14"24, 2012, this non-curated theater festival promises an "explosion of th…
Hello readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Compleat Female Stage Beauty, written by Jeffrey Hatcher. Click here to go to the LA Weekly's theater page with my review o…