
David J's refashions his Black Dahlia song cycle into a new multi-disciplinary musical play The Chanteuse and the Devil's Muse that presents a chilling theory regarding the identity of the f…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:10PM[SHARE]An eclectic and influential exhibition of the work of more than forty prominent Hispanic artists, ¡Adelante! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond opens this weekend at the Museum at…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:42PM[SHARE]Apart from an obviously fake juke box, designer Gary Guidinger's complicated set replicates a divey bar with astounding authenticity, from the beat-up dartboard, sticky-looking floor and sha…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:34PM[SHARE]This Friday, September 9th, there will be an opening reception at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) at Bergamot Station of a vast exhibition entitled Beatrice Wood: Career Woman"Drawing…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:55PM[SHARE]THE COMPANY is staging Glad Day, artist Jay Stuckey's first solo show at their gallery, on exhibit from September 3 through October 1, 2011. A selection of large-scale paintings w…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:59PM[SHARE]This is the last weekend to catch Rogue Machine’s emotionally hard-hitting and topical play, Small Engine Repair. John Pollono’s smash hit play has been extended multiple times, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:05PM[SHARE]Roll up! Roll up! The Mental Head Circus is in town, performing one Sunday per month at King King in Hollywood, as the nightclub's monthly resident show. Upcoming show dates for the remainde…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:28PM[SHARE]This week’s theatre review for LA Weekly is the brilliant play by Marie Jones, Stones in His Pockets. Now playing at the Zephyr Theatre in West Hollywood. Click here and …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:45PM[SHARE]Dreamy, contemplative photographic images of our planet's firmament are currently on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum; In Focus: The Sky, a thematically-installed exhibition of per…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:43PM[SHARE]*** Written and performed by Shelley Bennett, Condemned is a one-woman show playing for one night only! Standup comic and actress Shelley Bennett takes us on a bizarrely funny journey from S…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:00PM[SHARE]Check it out — here is this week’s review for the LA Weekly, of Rick Foster’s rather reverent play about the luminous star of stage and screen, Vivien Leigh: Vivien.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:31PM[SHARE]Girl power! Women unite!! Simply because she believes 'Courage is contagious,' writer Rivka Solomon has published a book that champions women and their valiant acts. Solomon, with assist…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:20PM[SHARE]Exciting news, gentle readers, especially if you have a smart phone. We have just launched the mobile version of our timely, happening Arts Webmagazine. Now, if you visit ArtsBeatLA via your…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:58PM[SHARE]Ready For Our Close-Up " a play showcase and benefit for The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Project " is happening this weekend only, Aug 26 " 28, in Hollywood, at the Stella Adler Theatre. The…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:12PM[SHARE]Ennio, featuring Ennio Marchetto " 'The Living Paper Cartoon' " will play an exclusive, limited engagement for one week only, from August 23 " 28, 2011, at The Pasadena Playhouse. Ennio Marc…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]Looking for something to do this Sunday (tomorrow)? Sunday August 21st is your last chance to catch to check out Intimate Opera Pasadena's (IOP's) production of the brilliant and chil…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:06PM[SHARE]Please enjoy my latest theatre review for LA Weekly, of the world premier of a new comedy Next Window, Please, written by Doug Haverty and notable for its almost exclusively female cast. Hap…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:27PM[SHARE]There's a cool Art Block Party planned for tomorrow (Saturday) night, over at the Lofts at NoHo Common. Music, Dance, film and of course Art will be happening on Weddington Street,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:34PM[SHARE]To celebrate its two-year anniversary, ArtsBeatLA has just been relaunched with a brand new layout and design theme. I am also starting a weekly Op-Ed column, paired with a links list as a r…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:37AM[SHARE]Welcome a new section where I plan to opinionate wildly as I discuss topics of interest. You have been warned! Thanks to a rather unusual incident at last Friday night's play, I've dec…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:20PM[SHARE]*** The Robey Theatre Company, Los Angeles' acclaimed African American theatre company based downtown at Los Angeles Theatre Center, is on track to scoop the pool at the forthcoming NAACP…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:26PM[SHARE]*** A photo exhibition, entitled Vanishing Point, currently on display in Little Tokyo, shows a Japanese "healing" town before and after the disaster. There will be a reception and discus…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:39PM[SHARE]*** Melissa James Gibson's ingeniously constructed drama, This, is far too clever for its own good. Review by Pauline Adamek Sure, it touches on deep (if bourgeois) themes, such as …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM[SHARE]*** Gentle readers, please enjoy my interview with a legend of daytime drama, Judith Chapman, who is starring in a solo-show about another legend of stage and screen, the magnificent Vivi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:28PM[SHARE]*** Macy Gray joins Rhythm & Roots " a 
benefit performance at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood for one night only! Report by Pauline Adamek Grammy Award-winning, multi-…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:27PM[SHARE]Soap opera star Judith Chapman tackles a solo show about the troubled movie star Vivien Leigh at Rogue Machine, where Chapman was the first board president. Rick Foster's play is set just da…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:31PM[SHARE]*** Gentle readers, please enjoy my interview with Sandra Bernhard, who has a new album of stand-up comedy and a new live show entitled I Love Being Me, Don't You? coming to LA for two we…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:20PM[SHARE]Sandra Bernhard is discussing her new album, I Love Being Me Don't You? A blend of her signature brand of critically acclaimed comedy with two musical covers that showcase her idiosyncratic …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:16PM[SHARE]*** Gentle readers, here is a link to my latest theatre review for the LA Weekly, of a semi-amusing, if cringe-worthily clichéd, autobiographical comedy by playwright Kenny Solms -- I…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:14PM[SHARE]*** Witness the spectacle of nature's fury from a safe distance " Lucas Jackson's magnificent images of the recent volcanic explosion in Iceland, entitled Eyjafjallajokull: Images from…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:51PM[SHARE]*** Experience a magical evening of grace, beauty and skill in the form of traditional and modernized Korean Dance. The Kwan-Gyu Lim Dance Company will perform at the Ford Amphitheatre on…
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