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Exhibition Review: JAWS: THE EXHIBITION (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles)
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GALLERY A blockbuster exhibition that proves the Academy Museum can create an exhibition with bite There are museum shows you admire—and then there are ones you feel. Jaws: The Exhibition is the latter. With just three months left before it closes on July 26, the Academy Museum has mounted one…
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Theater Review: THE PRICE (Pacific Resident Theatre, Venice)
THE COST OF LOOKING BACK With a soaring first act, I’m willing to pay the price for a second that can’t quite keep up Arthur Miller’s The Price has always been a talky, introspective piece—more excavation than action—but when it works, it’s quietly devastating. At Pacific Resident Theatre, director Elina de Santos delivers a production…
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Event Preview: MARC SHAIMAN / NEVER MIND THE HAPPY BOOK TOUR (In Conversation with Michael Bublé at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles)
FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD— AND BACK AGAIN A showbiz raconteur brings stories, songs, and Michael Bublé to L.A. There are memoirs—and then there are memoirs written by Marc Shaiman, who has spent decades at the center of Broadway, film, and pop culture, collecting stories the rest of us only hear secondhand. On Tuesday, May 5,…
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Event Preview: FUNDRAISER FOR SENATOR JON OSSOFF (Lin-Manuel Miranda Hosts Virtual Fundraiser)
BROADWAY GOES POLITICAL A starry virtual event blends music, activism, and marquee names If you’re going to tune into a political fundraiser, it might as well come with a Broadway-caliber lineup. On Thursday, May 7, Lin-Manuel Miranda hosts a one-night-only virtual event supporting Senator Jon Ossoff’s re-election campaign—bringing together an eclectic mix of performers and…
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Theater Review: “MASTER HAROLD” …AND THE BOYS (Geffen Playhouse)
MASTER PRODUCTION During the last half-hour of the exquisitely produced “Master Harold”…and the boys, the Geffen Playhouse becomes theatre as a temple: a transcendental, spiritual, empowering and uplifting theatrical experience that only a playwriting craftsman like Athol Fugard could create. For what was up to then a lyrical examination of a white seventeen year-old school boy,…
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Theater Preview: A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (The Bent, Palm Springs Cultural Center)
SMALL MUSICAL, BIG HEART An intimate Irish story about courage, community, and the quiet power of living truthfully There’s a certain kind of musical that doesn’t announce itself with spectacle, but sneaks up on you—softly, gently—and then leaves you wrecked. A Man of No Importance is that kind of show. Opening May 8 at the…
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Theater Preview: 43RD ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS: NOMINATIONS & CEREMONY (Boston Theater Critics Association, The Huntington)
The Boston Theater Critics Association has announced nominations for the 43rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards, a wide-ranging snapshot of the current theater season in Greater Boston. The ceremony, set for June 1 at the Huntington Theatre, includes more than 130 nominations across acting, directing, design, and production categories, along with several honors for visiting work….
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Dance Preview: PARSONS DANCE (BroadStage, Santa Monica)
HIGH VOLTAGE DANCE, NO SAFETY NET A company built on athleticism, musicality, and sheer momentum returns to BroadStage Few choreographers have maintained the kind of sustained, high-energy appeal that David Parsons has cultivated since breaking out as a star dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in the late 1970s. After founding Parsons Dance in…
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Preview: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (Palm Canyon Theatre, Palm Springs)
DESIRE, DANGER, AND A SONG TO SURVIVE Palm Canyon Theatre dives into one of Kander and Ebb’s most intoxicating musical Palm Canyon Theatre brings bold heat to the desert with Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Tony Award-winning musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with a book by Terrence McNally, running April 17–26, 2026….
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HOW CS2 AGENT SKINS CREATE CHARACTER IDENTITY IN COMPETITIVE GAMING
When people talk about cosmetics in Counter-Strike, they usually think about weapon finishes first. But CS2 agent skins changed something different: not the gun, but the person holding it. That matters because character identity in competitive games is not built only through stats or rank. It is also built through silhouette, attitude, voice lines, faction…
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Theater Review: KIM’S CONVENIENCE (Ahmanson)
A SMALL SHOP WITH A BIG HEART A delightful, tender surprise arrives at the Ahmanson—and quietly wins you over Sometimes the most unassuming shows sneak up and steal your heart. Kim’s Convenience, the stage original that inspired the Netflix series, arrives at the Ahmanson not with fanfare but with warmth, humor, and a disarming sincerity…
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Theater Review: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (Morgan-Wixon Theatre in Santa Monica)
BIG CAST, BIG LAUGHS, BIG HEART A joyful Morgan-Wixson production proves this classic still delivers the goods Community theatre rarely aims this big—or lands this charmingly. The Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s You Can’t Take It With You is that happy reminder of why this 1936 chestnut still works: a huge, game cast, a director who understands rhythm,…
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Theater Review: THE BEST BOARDING HOUSE IN DELAWARE (Electric Lodge)
HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR IS A boarding house of quiet menace and killer detail Writer/director Marja-Lewis Ryan is back, and her latest show arrives at The Electric Lodge in Venice with a killer premise and, thankfully, a production that knows exactly how to serve it: not with winks or indulgence, but with precision, restraint,…
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Theater Review: GUYS AND DOLLS (CV Rep)
A BEAUTIFUL DOLL CV Rep’s production is one bet you can’t lose It’s amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway’s golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Security. But make no mistake, this 1950 hoofer is no worse for the wear, thanks to Frank Loesser’s timeless score and Jo…
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Theater Review: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (South Coast Rep)
A CLASSIC THAT STILL CUTS DEEP A perfect cast brings Albee’s brutal masterpiece roaring to life—if with slightly less bite than usual There’s a reason Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? refuses to age: it’s one of the greatest plays ever written, a savage autopsy of marriage, illusion, and the lies we need to survive. South…
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Theater Review: GOD OF CARNAGE (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa)
CIVILITY CRUMBLES, BUT THE COMEDY NEVER BUILDS South Coast Rep’s revival exposes how thin satire needs sharper direction to truly sting Melinda Page Hamilton and Kim Martin-Cotten The first time I saw Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage was at The Ahmanson Theatre with an all-star cast, one so good that they practically hid that the…
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Dance Preview: STILL/HERE (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company on Tour at Royce Hall)
STILL HERE, STILL ESSENTIAL The tour of Bill T. Jones’s landmark dance comes to Royce Hall with undiminished force The first time I saw Still/Here, it was at BAM. It was 1994, the year of Stonewall’s 25th Anniversary and The Gay Games in NYC. So, yes, there was celebrating, but the AIDS epidemic was still…
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Concert Preview: MISSA SOLEMNIS (Gustavo Dudamel and The LA Phil at Disney Hall)
Beethoven’s towering Missa Solemnis arrives at Disney Hall for a rare, monumental performance. Dudamel leads a massive musical and choral force in one of Beethoven’s most demanding—and least-heard—masterworks. “From the heart—may it go further to the heart.” That’s what Ludwig van Beethoven inscribed on the score of his Missa Solemnis, a work he labored over for four years—the…
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Theater Review: THE CIRCLE (Greenway Court)
A FAMILY REUNION TURNS INTO A PRESSURE COOKER A fascinating first act can’t survive a nearly three-hour drift into exhaustion Stacey Martino Rivera’s world premiere The Circle at Greenway Court Theatre begins with a smart framing device: a teenage presentation by Ana (Ava Rivera) on restorative culture that gestures toward indigenous healing circles—and then cuts…
Theater Review: THIS IS GOVERNMENT (Moxie Theatre / San Diego)
by Milo Shapiro | October 5, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (The Old Globe / San Diego)
by Jason Mannino | October 5, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: OPERATION MINCEMEAT (National Tour / CIBC Theatre / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | October 4, 2026
in Chicago, Theater, ToursTheater Review: A BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO (La Jolla Playhouse / San Diego)
by Jason Mannino | October 4, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: KAIJU (The Road & BroadStage / North Hollywood)
by Nick McCall | October 3, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: OH, MARY! (First National Tour)
by Milo Shapiro | October 1, 2026
in San Diego, Theater, ToursTheater Review: TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (Steppenwolf Theatre Company / Chicago)
by Emma S. Rund | September 29, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: PURPOSE (Huntington Theatre Company / Boston)
by Lynne Weiss | September 29, 2026
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