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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is a fascinating documentary about a consummate performer with an idiosyncratic personality.
Statuesque, with a naturally superb physique and dramatic …
An intriguingly surreal film from a feature debut director.
Dinner and a show"with a difference! This month the Geffen Playhouse is presenting an interactive production. Join with filmmaker and cookbook author Sri Rao as he invites us to prepare a ho…
Ray Buffer is a Southern California actor, singer and jack-of-all-trades performer in Los Angeles whose career has taken him to the stage, on television, in film and even theme parks. Althou…
The Robey Theatre Company co-founders Danny Glover and Producing Artistic Director Ben Guillory.
  The Robey Theatre Company Playwright Series: Because Black voices matter. Because …
Fully Committed is a 1999 one-act comedy written by Becky Mode that depicts the trials and tribulations of a receptionist working the phones at a fashionable New Y0rk eatery during the holid…
THE FESTIVAL
 WRAPS ITS 26TH ANNIVERSARY WITH DECEMBER
 MINI-FEST STREAMING ONLINE DEC 9-13
SAFILM-San Antonio Film Festival wraps the 2020 (pandemic) season of online mini-fe…
Here is my one-on-one interview with Geena Davis for The Long Kiss Goodnight, from 1996.
Following a mixed reception to their first film together, Cutthroat Island, Geena Davis and husban…
Although Sleepless Beauty can be considered to rest firmly in the "torture porn" category, it's not as excruciating or gory as the Saw films. As such, it falls between two posts.
A teache…
Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace.
Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace was named West Hollywood's new Poet Laureate last October, and he's already off and running with the prestigious moniker. Newly launched…
Aaron Mark's riveting play streams from the Public Theater of San Antonio in a riveting production starring Ginger Gamble Martel.
The indie Los Angeles DIV filmmaker talks about his latest endeavor.
This sprawling and colorful indie film chronicles the lives of dozens of 30-somethings as they attend a post-punk festival.
The deadline to register to vote is Monday, October 19, 2020.
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The festival continues to celebrate its 26th anniversary virtually and features live streaming Q&As.
Jonathan Tolins' acclaimed solo comedy works fine as a streaming show, broadcast from the Russell Hill Rogers Theater's stage.
Maestro Ponti.
Don't miss the opening performance of dazzling piano artistry streamed from the stage of the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz and featuring the Judges Award Winners of the Orange…
Let's go! Retro review of the giallo genre.
Skateboarders and video game enthusiasts alike will be drawn in by this enjoyably nostalgic doc.
The cult director makes his first documentary about a healing technique he invented over 50 years ago.
Festival films will be available for streaming.
Cabaret, music, comedy, poetry, drama and dance are all offered virtually.
Music, an original work and cabaret. Zoom it all!
From the archives!
Here is my interview with the late, great legendary producer Robert Evans for The Kid Stays in the Picture, interviewed in Los Angeles in 2002.
Pictured, above " Rob…
Here's another archival ArtsBeatLA post from contributor Kurt Gardner.
Originally posted in Weird Movie Village, January 2010.
Let's take a look at some actors who created great charac…
