Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It’s eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaking, playfulness...
Los Angeles Opera kicks off their 2024-25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, starring Karah Son and Jonathan Tetelman, led by conductor James Conlon. Performances will run September 21...
Neil LaBute’s new two-hander play drops us right into a date-in-progress. The pair have drunkenly staggered back to one of the couple’s place to hang out after a night of drinking. “I’m not staying!” the woman...
The Future Sounds of Jazz Festival is happening at the BroadStage in Santa Monica on September 21, 2024. It promises to be a special day of jazz music curated by Stanley Clarke. Beginning at 1.30PM, a line-up...
Nora is a mess. Played on stage by Alana Dietze, the 30-something baroque musicologist is embroiled in a steamy sexual relationship with a slightly older married man, Michael, played by Joby Earle. Cavorting...
In my fifty-seven years of life, I’ve never seen this country so divided and tribalized. I think the media bears a lot of blame for this, referring to us as living in red or blue states and giving equal time on-air to...
Center Theatre Group‘s summer hit stage production of Clue is now in its final weeks. You still have until Sunday August 25 to catch a show, with matinees on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and 8PM performances...
The Santa Fe Opera 2024 season has a few performances remaining this year. Located at 301 Opera Dr, Santa Fe, New Mexico, this gorgeous live theater space is open air and elegantly beautiful. Go here for more detailed...
Arts Bridging the Gap presents a Community Paint Day – happening on SATURDAY, August 10. Join the crew and do your part to help paint their mural designed by the sixth graders at Grant Elementary School and ABG...
::STOP PRESS:: The Smash HIT Theatrical Event of the Summer EXTENDS through SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 at the Whitley Theatre in Hollywood! Did you ever see a show that left your cheeks aching...
Welcome to Watching the Dark, a regular column featuring essays, articles and reviews about horror films. Written by Terry Morgan. Longlegs in cinemas This is the third piece of a three-part series on the work of...
Currently on view at The Hammer Museum in Westwood are four summer modern art exhibitions. My review will focus on two of those. “Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga” on view from June 9 – August 4, 2024, presents...
The first time I read Jon Robin Baitz’s 1991 play, The Substance of Fire, and later saw the film made from it, I liked it. I wasn’t alone – the success of that play catapulted Baitz into theater stardom and garnered Ron...
Beautifully written by Philip W. Chung, Unbroken Blossoms is a new play that drops us into Hollywood during the late teens. Still wounded from the criticism and accusations of racism for his ambitious spectacle, the...
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