Laura Karlin, Artistic Director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, set herself a big challenge with Reeling in the wake of last year's After it Happened (reviewed here). That piece was a response t…
Every year, when Halloween rolls around, the Deco District's Woodlawn Theatre brings Frank-N-Furter and his gang back to roaring life in its raucous production of The Rocky Horror Sho…
Now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre is Carrie the Musical, an exciting musical production, packed with great songs, fantastic voices and performances, and a compelling storyline. Most peo…
Comedian, actor and musician and modest art collector Steven Martin has made his first foray into art curation with a new art exhibit at the Hammer Museum; The Idea of North: The Paintings o…
MartÃn Zimmerman's one-act drama Seven Spots on the Sun explores the impulse of revenge, and the notion of redemption, against the backdrop of a horrifying civil war. The lives of two cou…
Greetings dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of 'vlogs' or video reviews. Here's the newest Exit Review for the play Carrie The Musical, wh…
The first major exhibition in the United States of photography by Japanese artist Ishiuchi Miyako, as well as the first time in many of these works are on view, Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shad…
GRAND AVE ARTS: ALL ACCESS LA’s home for world-class arts and culture is Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. The venues that line this street are set to turn inside out with open reh…
Hello ballet and #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of 'vlogs' or video reviews. Here's the newest Exit Review for the Mariinsky Ballet a…
Wombat Man: The Cereal Murders The newest offering at the quirky Eclectic Company Theatre in North Hollywood is Wombat Man: The Cereal Murders, written, directed and produced by Chris…
In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' domestic drama Appropriate, three siblings squabble over an inheritance, piling on the recriminations. It's well-trodden terrain for many playwrights and screenwri…
Green Day's American Idiot at the Woodlawn Theatre, San Antonio. When American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010, it brought to the venerable St. James Theatre a radical new sty…
"We're bringing Broadway back to Broadway!" So claims Jack W. Batman, co-producer, along with Bruce Robert Harris, of Carrie The Musical, which opens at the historic Los Angeles Theatre on O…
Hello dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of 'vlogs' or video reviews. Here's the newest Exit Review for the play uCarmen, which opened last…
Heavenly harmonies, a singing nun and a passel of adorable children " family entertainment doesn't get more wholesome than The Sound of Music, which opened this week at the Ahmanson Theatre …
Greetings dear fans of #LAThtr. Here is my newest theater review for Stage Raw, the critical theater site. We recommend this spooky stage production: The Ghoulmaster’s Haunted Play…
Minister of Finance under Louis XIV, Nicolas Fouquet was not just a lover of money and upward mobility but also a patron of the arts with the eye of a connoisseur. His passion lay with two w…
Leave it to Eli Roth, the king of torture porn, to lovingly resurrect another disgusting genre " the cannibal vomitorium atrocities from the '70s and '80s " with his new film The Gree…
Everyone has a story to tell — even kids! Story Pirates bring their all-ages sketch-comedy musical magic to Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University on Saturday, October 10 at 11 a.m.…
One of the most powerful classical story-ballets, Alexei Ratmanky’s Cinderella, will grace the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage on October 8-11, 2015 as Russia’s world-renowned Ma…
Latest vlog! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of 'vlogs' or short video reviews. Here's the latest Exit Review for the absurd show La Mélancolie des Dragon…
The 2015/16 San Francisco opera season opened on September 11th with a revival of Francesca Zambello's production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Luisa Miller, based on the play "Kabale und L…
Imagine standing on the stage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in front of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, just as Maestro Gustavo Dudamel walks up to the podium. Suddenly, the scene erupts wi…
LA Opera opened its 2015-16 season with a double bill of Puccini’s comedy Gianni Schicchi and Leoncavallo’s melodrama Pagliacci. Â Here follow two reviews by Jeffrey Roberts: G…
This Saturday — don't miss this much anticipated evening featuring guest soprano Stacey Tappan and the Los Angeles debut of the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra. Théâtre Raymond Kabb…