Fifty Years Ago, These Four Pieces Of Music Blew Up The Modernist Status Quo by Artsjournal2

Mark Swed: Terry Riley's 'In C' "is simply a collection of 53 melodic motives, all in or around the key of C. Any instrument or vocalist " and any number of them " can play or sing. Each mot…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:06pm on April 22, 2018☆⚑

The week ahead in L.A. dance, April 22-29: 'Forever Flamenco' and more by Matt Cooper

DANCE Compiled by Matt Cooper Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The company performs works including their signature piece, "Revelations." Segerstrom Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 6…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 22, 2018☆⚑

The week ahead in L.A. theater, April 22-29: 'Dirty Blonde,' 'Belleville' and more by Matt Cooper

Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Belleville L.A. premiere of Amy…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 22, 2018☆⚑

Troubled Los Angeles Gallery CB1 To Close After Artists Say They Weren't Paid by Artsjournal2

CB1 will close when the current show closes, after claiming they were having cash-flow problems. "Those cash-flow issues are what prompted a group of artists to publish an open letter allegi…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 7:33am on April 22, 2018☆⚑

Netflix Considers Buying A Movie Theatre Chain by Artsjournal

Although no cinema deal has materialized, the idea of Netflix buying a theater chain would mark a new phase in the company's rapid ascent to become one of the most powerful players in the en…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:24pm on April 20, 2018☆⚑

The 99-Seat Beat: Social justice as taught by imprisoned women, 'Native Son,' 'The Immigrant' and Henry VIII by Daryl H. Miller

Most any week the theater provides a college seminar's worth of social-justice studies, but the conversations are particularly prevalent now in L.A.'s smaller theaters. This week they look a…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 20, 2018☆⚑

The 99-Seat Beat: Social justice as taught by imprisoned women, 'Native Son,' 'The Immigrant' and Henry VIII by Daryl H. Miller

Social justice is a topic in L.A. smaller-theater productions of "Key Change" by Collective Studio: Los Angeles, "Native Son" by Antaeus, "The Immigrant" by Sierra Madre Playhouse and "Enriq…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 20, 2018☆⚑

First tickets to see Tom Hanks live in 'Henry IV' go on sale Monday by Jessica Gelt

The first batch of tickets to see Tom Hanks star as Sir John Falstaff in the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of "Henry IV" go on sale Monday. The play, which is scheduled to ru…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:42pm on April 18, 2018☆⚑

At South Coast Rep, glimmers of light in 'Little Black Shadows' by Charles McNulty

"Little Black Shadows," a new play by Kemp Powers at South Coast Repertory, is set in the 1850s, when slavery in the South is an obdurate fact yet glimmers of a distant dawn are starting to …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 2:37pm on April 17, 2018☆⚑

At South Coast Rep, glimmers of light in 'Little Black Shadows' by Charles McNulty

Kemp Powers, who found inspiration in historical slave narratives, gets a visually arresting, at times haunting, production of his new play in Costa Mesa.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00am on April 17, 2018☆⚑

The Historic Los Angeles Times Building Will No Longer Hold The Los Angeles Times by Artsjournal2

Why? Well, the previous owners sold the building to a development corporation - which asked for a $1 million per month increase in rent after the lease expires June 30. So, according to new …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:05am on April 17, 2018☆⚑

Watts Tower Arts Center Director Is Suspended, And No One Will Say Why by Artsjournal2

Rosie Lee Hooks has been director of Los Angeles' Watts Tower Arts Center since 2010, and she has grown programs, attendance, and attention by leaps and bounds. Now, supporters say, there's …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 7:54am on April 17, 2018☆⚑

Long Beach Opera raises life's questions, loudly, in Stewart Copeland's 'Invention of Morel' by Ricahrd S. Ginell

The new Stewart Copeland-Jonathan Moore opera "The Invention of Morel" from the mavericks at Long Beach Opera comes with a boatload of issues to ponder. Here are just a few: Is unrequited lo…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:12am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

Zooey, Taye, Rebel: Lineup announced for the Hollywood Bowl's 'Beauty and the Beast' concert by Sonaiya Kelley

For one weekend in May, Disney fans are once again invited into the world of "Beauty and the Beast," this time with a cast that includes Zooey Deschanel, Taye Diggs and Rebel Wilson. The Hol…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:12am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

L.A. theater openings, April 16-23: 'The Walking Forest' and more by Matt Cooper

This week: An immersive "Macbeth"-inspired fable at REDCAT, a new drama about the founders of the NAACP, and it's all Greek to "junkyard opera" company Four Larks at the Getty Villa. Failure…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:12am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

NEA study explains financial effect of the arts nationally " and California's huge cultural economy by Carolina A. Miranda

Data released Wednesday by the National Endowment for the Arts, in a joint effort with the Bureau of Economic Analysis, offers an argument for keeping arts funding alive at a time when the T…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:12am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) by Margaret Gray

A beat-up 10-speed bicycle leans against the wall in Michael Ritchie's office on the second floor of the Center Theatre Group's annex building in downtown L.A. Befitting a theater company ar…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:12am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

Bette Midler and 'Hello, Dolly!': A match that makes for Broadway heaven by Charles McNulty

Rarely has an exclamation point in a title been earned as thoroughly as the one in the new Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Bette Midler. The show, which opened at the Sam S. Shu…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:12am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the farmhouse next door, and unexpected connections in between by Charles McNulty

Lili Taylor stars in artist Suzanne Bocanegra's "Farmhouse/Whorehouse," which combines text, music and film centered on the lives of Bocanegra's grandparents, whose small farm stood across t…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the farmhouse next door, and unexpected connections in between by Charles McNulty

Path-breaking artists help us to see the world afresh by challenging our habitual patterns of perception. They shock us into new awareness by joining the disparate and sundering the similar.…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 16, 2018☆⚑

How Images Are Increasingly Shaping Our Political Debate by Artsjournal

The line between subjective truth and propaganda is as old as war, politics and religion, but what's disquieting today is the velocity at which it moves, and how impossible it is to shove th…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 4:33pm on April 13, 2018☆⚑

Say 'I do' to 'Significant Other,' the rare romantic comedy with depth to match the laughs by Charles McNulty

Joshua Harmon's funny play, in a glorious new production at the Geffen Playhouse, follows a gay man in his late 20s whose female BFFs get married, one by one, leaving him ever more anxious a…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 3:20pm on April 13, 2018☆⚑

In Wake Of Curator Firing, Is MoCA's Director About To Resign? by Artsjournal1

"Is Museum of Contemporary Art Director Philippe Vergne on his way out? That's the question swirling in the art-world air following his surprise firing of MOCA's chief curator one month ago,…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:03am on April 13, 2018☆⚑

The 99-Seat Beat: Dorothy Parker, plus Ayad Akhtar times two by Philip Brandes

This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: "The Willows" at the Bootleg Theater, "The Dorothy Parker Project" at Pacific Resident Theatre. "Disgraced" at L.A. Theatre Works and "The Invisible …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 9:00am on April 13, 2018☆⚑

Mitzi Shore, Owner Of LA's Comedy Store, Dead At 87 by Artsjournal1

"For at least a dozen years, she was 'all-powerful, during a remarkably fertile time for stand-up comedy - the 1970s and early '80s - when many of today's comedy stars showed up in L.A. to g…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:01am on April 13, 2018☆⚑