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Though modestly budgeted and deliberately paced, Joey Travolta's quietly moving film delivers the emotional goods.
The Soraya's intimate onstage Jazz Club continues with the extraordinary Camila Meza who will take to the stage and perform with LA's own wild Up, sitting in with The Nectar Orch…
San Antonio 'Hedwig' stars Roy Thomas and Morgan Clyde talk about the show with the Roxie Theatre's Jonathan Pennington.
The annual conference in Austin is presenting 99 world premiere features and speakers from all aspects of the entertainment industry.
Clutching a cocktail as she emerges onto the dimly lit
nightclub stage, resplendent in a white satin gown with long white gloves, Karole
Foreman channels tragic Blues legend Billie Holliday …
National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) has announced the nominees for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students…
In Full Bloom: Transcending Gender is a documentary that follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monolog…
Wajatta is the musical duo of beat-boxer/comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist/DJ/producer John Tejada.
The guys' second single of their second album is out, and…
Regarding the depiction of real estate developers in film and on TV, it's common to see the developer presented as the antagonist " the villain. Why is this common trope so enduring?
Her…
Announcing a One-Day-ONLY performance of AFTERNOON OF PEACE, a multi-media live event that tells the story of the atom bomb survivors " known as Hibakusha " of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It…
Cirque du Soleil's "Volta." Courtesy Cirque du Soleil, Photo by Matt Beard.
Dazzling spectacle, breathtaking artistry, effortless grace and elegance " you can experience all these thing…
Kino Lorber announces a nationwide Day of Conversation screenings of documentary AFTER PARKLAND on February 12, 2020 to commemorate the second anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman…
Director Adriana Maggs' well-produced biopic is an unflinching look at the brief, tragic life of champion Canadian goaltender Terry Sawchuk.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM) performing its original work Leonard Cohen's Dance Me, a dance performance about the f…
The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 27 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe.
The …
Now on view at National History Museum, from OCTOBER 10, 2019 through APRIL 19, 2020 (free with paid museum admission and Free for Members) is the Science of Horror exhibition.
We a…
The Industry"the company that created the groundbreaking operatic events Invisible Cities and Hopscotch"now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narr…
Long Beach Opera (LBO)'s new "UnGala" series continues with Dream Variation"A celebration of Black Composers through history.
Dream Variation will play for One Night Only on Saturday, Feb…
Poetry combined with exquisite classical music"what a delightful combination! I interviewed Maestro Carlo Ponti in 2015, not long after he formed his Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra.
The…
Six new plays by award-winning, mid-career writers get developmental readings over the course of two weekends as part of Antaeus Theatre Company's second annual LAB RESULTS serie…
Calling all ballet and dance aficionadi!! Two magnificent, world-class ballets can be experienced at The Soraya in Northridge next month, during February. Once again, The Younes and Soraya …
Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Nicole Richie (to name a few) get the satirical treatment in Reality Queen!, a hilarious mockumentary about the inescapable reality show genre.
Julia Faye…
The Industry and its Artistic Director Yuval Sharon have announced the world premiere of a new project, Sweet Land. Sweet Land brings together composers Raven Chacon and Du Yun, lib…
The Los Angeles program for Night of Ideas (La Nuit des Idées), an annual, worldwide event that celebrates the stream of ideas between countries, cultures, and generations. The Natural Hist…
Downtown Los Angeles' Corey Helford Gallery is proud to announce a four-artist show with Iowa-based Vietnamese painter and illustrator Bao Pham, international award-winning…
