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An intimate experience — Le Salon de Musiques

Pauline Adamek — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:56:13 +0000

For its fifth intimate concert of the second season, Le Salon de Musiques program will feature Poulenc Flute Sonata with piano and Arnold Bax Elegiac Trio for Flute, Harp and Viola and Faure Piano Quartet N.1 in C Minor Opus 15 with Steven Vanhauwaert on Piano, Marcia Dickstein on Harp, Pamela Vliek on Flute, Tereza Stanislav [...]

This week’s new LA Weekly review – Who’s Hungry

Pauline Adamek — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:56:39 +0000

Gentle readers, Here is a link to this week’s review of Who’s Hungry, with a handful of performances remaining this weekend at Highways performance space at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Click here and scroll down (right down) to find it. ~ OR ~ You can just read it here! [...]

Discover the Arts in Los Angeles

Pauline Adamek — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:44:33 +0000

Discover the Arts in Los Angeles, the longest running and largest arts campaign in the City, launched its three-month campaign with a lively press conference, held Tuesday on the steps of Music Center’s iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Honorable Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke about the importance of the arts to LA’s cultural and economic [...]

Resolutely unsentimental – Our Town at the Broad

Pauline Adamek — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:18:50 +0000

“Nothing much has changed, except people lock their doors at night now.” Considering it’s generally required reading on the school curriculum, and frequently staged by amateur as well as professional companies, it’s a safe guess that most local readers and LA audiences will be familiar with Our Town, the compelling play written by Thornton Wilder [...]

Strange and tender — God’s Ear at the Zephyr Theatre

Lucy Griffin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:04:46 +0000

Strange and tender, God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz unfolds like a haunting case of déjà vu where relationships become a string of idioms, kind of like Dr. Seuss in couples counseling. Amanda Saunders and Paul Caramagno (Mel and Ted) lead the show with incredible performances as a couple devastated by tragedy and struggling to make [...]