Monday, February 15, 2021
Do you feel as if the past year just passed you by? That summertime came and went, minus all the fun events you usually shared and enjoyed? Are you longing to attend a concert at the Hollywo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Open Call for Submissions:Â Â closing date is February 21, 2021
The Music Center and the non-profit radio station dublab have partnered to offer A Quiet Scene: L.A., a FRE…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2021
Sri Rao in the Geffen Stayhouse world premiere production of Bollywood Kitchen. Directed by Arpita Mukherjee. Photo by Kyle Rosenberg.
Last Saturday night, a solo theater show with a d…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is a fascinating documentary about a consummate performer with an idiosyncratic personality.
Statuesque, with a naturally superb physique and dramatic …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:03PM[SHARE]Friday, January 1, 2021
Dinner and a show"with a difference! This month the Geffen Playhouse is presenting an interactive production. Join with filmmaker and cookbook author Sri Rao as he invites us to prepare a ho…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The Robey Theatre Company co-founders Danny Glover and Producing Artistic Director Ben Guillory.
  The Robey Theatre Company Playwright Series: Because Black voices matter. Because …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2020
Here is my one-on-one interview with Geena Davis for The Long Kiss Goodnight, from 1996.
Following a mixed reception to their first film together, Cutthroat Island, Geena Davis and husban…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2020
Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace.
Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace was named West Hollywood's new Poet Laureate last October, and he's already off and running with the prestigious moniker. Newly launched…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2020
The deadline to register to vote is Monday, October 19, 2020.
For more information or to register, visit www.BroadwayInHollywood.com/Vote
In commemoration of National Voter Regis…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:48PM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2020
Maestro Ponti.
Don't miss the opening performance of dazzling piano artistry streamed from the stage of the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz and featuring the Judges Award Winners of the Orange…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with the late, great legendary producer Robert Evans for The Kid Stays in the Picture, interviewed in Los Angeles in 2002.
Pictured, above " Rob…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2020
After record-breaking opening week sales, Rubicon Theatre Company has announced details related to the first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company's Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Concert…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:36PM[SHARE]In light of COVID-19 restrictions, this summer the Rose Bowl, America's Stadium, has decided to go virtual (but not entirely) with its 94th Annual AmericaFest Celebration so Pasa…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2020
FACEBOOK WATCH PARTY!
This Saturday " June 27 " at 3pm PST / 6pm EST log onto a Facebook Watch Party of the musical Nathan C. Jones: A Love Story? by Vanessa Stewart and Brendan Milburn, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:48PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with Kevin Bacon for Sleepers, interviewed at the Venice Biennale in 1996.
Kevin Bacon is wearing a tight fitting teeshirt and jeans " both brow…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Artistic Director Michael Ritchie announced Center Theatre Group's 54th season at the Ahmanson Theatre, previously referred to as the 2020 " 2021 season, will begin later than originally ann…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PM[SHARE]Laksh
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA)Â " the premiere venue for the best annual showcase of independent cinema from India and its Diaspora " announced today a special vi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Brimming with history, Père-Lachaise Cemetery is the final resting place of Paris' rich and famous.
You don't even need to budge from your armchair to take a trip there, thanks to Caroly…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with the Coen Brothers, for their award-winning film Fargo, first published in April 1996.
Set in Minneapolis, 'Fargo' forges true-life crime in…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:54PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2020
Horror! Musical! Comedy! Now available for streaming is Vampire Burt's Serenade. In this raucous, raunchy, bloody thriller with a touch of camp, Vampire Burt (Kevin Scott Richardson of the B…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with Richard Gere, star of Primal Fear, first published in February 1996.
Primal Fear, a tense thriller with an undercurrent of black wisecracks…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2020
In recent days we've seen Broadway shuttered through early September and now a recent global study of nearly 12,000 consumers indicated that 64% will return to live theater slowly or not …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PM[SHARE]Hola Mexico Film Festival, the largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, proudly presents the Hola Mexico Virtual Theatre online film series.
Hola Mexico Film Festival has announc…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2020
26th ANNUAL HERB ALPERT AWARD IN THE ARTSÂ " RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED.
Five $75,000 prizes given annually for the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in the categories of Dance, Film/Video, Music…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Spend some time with Ree Morton:The Plant That Heals May Also Poison currently at ICA LA and viewable with Virtual ICA LA. It is the first major U.S. exhibition of Ree Morton (19…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with Bruce Willis, star of Last Man Standing, first published in September 1996.
With it's unpaved streets and dust-caked, rickety buildings, Je…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2020
The Latino Theater Company is going online with Latino Theater Co. LIVE, a series of online conversations hosted by Xavi Moreno.
On Friday, May 15 at 4 p.m.PDT: Jo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2020
From the archives!
Here is my interview with Keanu Reeves, star of Chain Reaction, first published in December 1996.
In a University of Chicago research lab, a dedicated team of sc…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:18PM[SHARE]From the archives!
Here is my coverage of a press conference with Michael Mann for his film Heat, starring Al Pacino and Robert de Niro, first published in 1995.
You may have already …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:18PM[SHARE]The Roots and Wings Project Founder/Creative Director Jesse Bliss and the California Arts Council Cultural Pathways Grant Present WOMEN AT WORK​, a transformative works-in-progress ex…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:18PM[SHARE]WORLD PREMIERE of The Present.
Written & Performed by Helder Guimarães
Directed by Frank Marshall
May 7 " June 7, 2020
Purchase tickets here.
The Present is inspired…
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