2,000 stories by "Pauline Adamek"
Girl 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 assist…
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…
Ready 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 Theatre. The…
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. Ennio Marc…
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 chil…
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…
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,…
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…
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 dec…
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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 NAACP…
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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 discus…
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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 as …
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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…
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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-…
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…
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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…
Sandra 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 --
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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 from…
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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…
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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…
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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 until Au…
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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 b…
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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…
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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…
