Though it unfolds in the present, writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s beautiful new film underscores how difficult it can be to elude the past. His first to be shot outside his native Iran, the film opens at the Paris...
Dear readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Peter and the Starcatcher, now playing at The Ahmanson in Downtown LA. Much like the dastardly pirates terrorizing the high seas, in his fun...
Returning to the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre is the sketch comedy show based on the ghostly old Holiday chestnut by Charles Dickens. Written by Second City alums, Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort, The Second...
Last Thursday, NBC presented a live production of the classic musical The Sound of Music, with Carrie Underwood as its star Maria. Mark McClain Wilson maintains that while The Sound of Music Live! was not nearly as...
Gentle readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Live! From the Last Night of My Life, now playing at Sacred Fools in East Hollywood. A despondent fellow, Doug (Pete Caslavka), is disillusioned...