Sunday, April 1, 2012
Famous historical and contemporary figures captured through photography can be seen in a new Getty exhibition. Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity, on vi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for the hilarious romantic comedy Lights Off, Eyes Closed, a Sky Pilot Theatre production written by Liz Shannon Miller …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:52PM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2012
Start ripping up a bed sheet " to honor the classical origins of theatre, this year's 'LaWees' has a toga party theme. Hence, the dress code is toga attire (laurel wreaths optional). That fu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
“A night of Lad-Sissies celebration!” The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's 43rd Annual Awards Show, took place last Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within's glamorous …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Hello dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for If We Are Women, written by Canadian playwright Joanna McClelland Glass in 1993, now playing at The Lonny Chapma…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
The Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Overtone Industries presents the world premiere of its new opera The Woman in the Wall, with two weekends of performances, opening Friday, March …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2012
Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for the musical version of Alice Walker’s sensational saga The Color Purple, now playing at Celebration Theater in…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) annually gives awards for excellence in theatre. You can now follow them on twitter via @LADramaCC Presenters and performers have …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art's highly anticipated annual exhibition and benefit art sale, returns for its eighth year, enhanced by the first-ever PRECOGNITO Gala and Preview event. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:29PM[SHARE]An acclaimed author of crime-fiction (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane is certainly in his element when charting a page-turning thriller plot. Lehane has tried hi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2012
Vox Femina Los Angeles continues its 15th anniversary season with From Shakespeare to Shamrocks, a spring concert celebration that brings the English and Irish together in song on Sai…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
A 340-ton megalith that is to be part of artist Michael Heizer's monumental artwork, Levitated Mass, has begun its epic journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Levitated Mas…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Celebrity photographer Herb Ritts' extensive career is examined in a new exhibition at the Getty. The exhibition, entitled Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, includes the artist's photographs in fashio…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:22PM[SHARE]Blood-drenched, with an undercurrent of impending violence, Beth Henley's new play The Jacksonian grips you with its intensity as well as flashes of poetic language and dark humor. Making it…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:11PM[SHARE] Dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, now playing at the A Noise Within’s gl…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Dear Readers, Below is a link to my in-depth article on the genesis of a fun spoof musical, The Spidey Project, including interviews with the show’s creator Justin Moran as well as the…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:23PM[SHARE]Not only did The Spidey Project beat its target, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, to an opening night in New York, but the parody version is also arriving in LA before the behemoth Broadway…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:14PM[SHARE]Theatre Unleashed (TU) seeks to collect books for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and its 'Literally Healing' program during the company's run of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Com…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Center Theatre Group is establishing a special daily lottery program for the run of Green Day's explosive Broadway hit musical American Idiot, presented at the CTG/Ahmanson Theatre March 13 …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2012
With your friendship, Japan moves forward from the Earthquake one year ago. Arigato!! To convey their heartfelt gratitude for the massive worldwide support they received after …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 2012
Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for Damian Lanigan’s play Dissonance, now playing at the Falcon Theatre in Toluca Lake. Click here and then…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2012
Lulled by Native American singing and chanting, gradually you find yourself being pulled into another world. Two one-man plays, written by and starring acclaimed actor and storyteller Robert…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Gallery at Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica will display an exhibit, Poured Paintings by locally-based, Australian-born artist Felicity Nove, with an opening reception schedul…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:37PM[SHARE]Hello dear readers! My last week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly was for Ty DeMartino’s play Finding Fossils, now playing at The Road Theatre in NoHo. Click here and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2012
The Troubador Theater Company's 'Funky Punks' are some of the friendliest and silliest clowns around. Employing a creative use of simple props and settings, the cast of ten jump around the s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
They simply don't write plays like they used to. They really don't. Born in 1915, Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, until his death in…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Book Savvy " a day-long conference on getting published " promises to be a fantastic event and timely resource for the LA writers community. Hosted by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women's …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:48PM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2012
Cella Gallery is pleased to present Femme Fatale, a group exhibition featuring the works of over 35 innovative artists handpicked by curators Nicole Bruckman and Stephanie Chefas. An arc…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
Two nights ONLY " Monday, Feb. 27 and Wednesday, Feb. 29, Mario Melendez presents Hunky Dory, the Rock Opera at King King Nighclub in Hollywood. This energetic evening of entertainmen…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
In its West Coast Premiere at the Odyssey Theatre, Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson's two-act drama mines the prickly and uncomfortable terrain of a mother and daughter relations…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:15PM[SHARE] This year's nominees for the L.A. Weekly's annual theatre awards, as voted by yours truly as part of the L.A. Weekly theater critics team, have been announced. On April 2, the L.A. We…
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