If having someone change the language, plot, themes, settings and characters of a play is seen as a tribute or homage or compliment, Shakespeare must be the most complimented playwright on the planet. He must...
Olivia Wilde’s The Invite: “You Don’t Know What the Movie Is Until They Tell You” There is something appropriately unruly about the way The Invite came together. Olivia Wilde’s cringey comedy, starring...
A new installment of the beloved schlocky Killer Tomatoes franchise is back with a fifth feature film, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence. Both gruesome and delicious, the madcap...
Experience an extraordinary afternoon of movement, music, and storytelling when acclaimed Indian classical dancer and choreographer Rukhmani Mehta takes the stage at Sierra Madre...
Keith Glassman’s award-winning documentary Lives Beyond Motion, centered on leading male voices in contemporary dance, will receive a special free public screening in West Hollywood this Sunday, August 16. The...
Hugo Marchand and the Stars of the Paris Opera Ballet Bring Elegance, Passion, and Poetry to Walt Disney Concert Hall “She’s the swan.” This groundbreaking revelation was audibly uttered by no fewer than two men...
You’ll get much more than your fill of dancing when you sit down to watch this 1980s Spandex-laced epic.
Every now and then someone will ask you to review a play that will be closed by the time the review posts. There are all sorts of reasons for that, some better than others. The best reason I’ve had yet to do so...
Normally with a play title such as this, I’d remove the asterisks, but F**king Strangers is how it appears in the press release and on the program, so I’m assuming that the official title includes the asterisks. It...
When museums talk about “immersive experiences,” it’s easy to imagine hidden speakers or sound installations woven through the galleries. That’s not what’s happening at LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries...
When I first read about the premise of the musical Mexodus, which was the statement that there was a lesser-known Underground Railroad that freed four to ten thousand enslaved people by getting them to Mexico between...
Once again, Artistic and Music Director of MUSE/IQUE Rachael Worby took us on a musical journey, tracing the life and career of artist Joni Mitchell. Renowned as a singer songwriter, Mitchell’s wistful, poetic...
The Music Center’s acclaimed 2025/2026 Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance season concludes with an extraordinary celebration of ballet as BalletNOW: Superstars of Paris featuring Hugo Marchand & Friends arrives at Walt...
“Be careful what you wish for” is the adage that rings true in Adam Hoelzel's clever psychological drama.
Terry Morgan
Pauline Adamek
Kurt Gardner
