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Music Feature: CLASSIC FM LAUNCHES NEW VIDEO GAME MUSIC SHOW
THE BEST VIDEO GAMING HAS TO OFFER, AND SO MUCH MORE Video game music is slowly but surely creeping into mainstream appreciation. For several years now, scores have been sneaking into classical music charts, sometimes causing friction when their origins are unearthed, but otherwise being wholly appreciated. With ClassicFM launching a new video game music…
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Book Review: MURDER IS FATAL (Barry Creyton)
NEO-NOIR NOVEL A FUNNY NOD TO CLASSIC FILM NOIR Author Barry Creyton has proven that film noir doesn’t die; it just goes from black-and-white to color. Part crime story and part love letter, the novel Murder is Fatal is a good-hearted epitome of all things film noir as well as an exaltation to its devotees….
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Los Angeles Art Preview: L.A. ART SHOW (Los Angeles Convention Center)
ART YOU TAKE PART IN I never in my wildest imaginings would have thought Los Angeles to become a mecca for art. But the combination of a rich cultural stew, the burgeoning arts life of downtown L.A., an explosion of galleries (of which Culver City was at the forefront), the opening of the Getty, better…
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Book Review: ADDICTED TO AMERICANA (Charles Phoenix / Prospect Park Books)
HOOKED ON HAPPY With trademark enthusiasm, quick wit, and keen eye for oddball detail, Charles Phoenix has become one of the American Treasures he often discusses. I often wonder that centuries from now, people will speak of him—perhaps from a picture they found of him in a fez and red-and-white striped suit—with the fascination that…
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London Theatre Preview: ANGELS IN AMERICA (National Theatre Live Screening)
ANGELS IN AMERICA APPROACHES In two sprawling works written in the 1980’s, Tony Kushner brought alive the American national scene of the 1980’s and early 1990’s, mixing raw naturalism with fantasy, dreams, visions, and hallucinations. It was, and remains today, a dazzling achievement that’s worth every minute of nearly eight hours of cumulative playing time….
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Regional Theater Preview: THE GRAND TOUR (Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach)
TAKE A GRAND TOUR WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR SEAT Pageant of the Masters, now in its 83rd year, is a singularly unique entertainment that has perfected the art of tableaux vivants (“living pictures”). With world-class designers and over 600 volunteers (including actors and a research team), this elegant and classy outfit’”equal parts museum, play, concert, and lecture’”re-creates for…
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L.A. Concert Review: THE CLIFTON’S CANTEEN (Clifton’s)
A BOOGIE-WOOGIE BLAST A one-time good-time event that will surely return next year, this sense-surrounding salute to USO shows of the WWII era was a perfect way to spend a Fourth of July holiday. Taking place on all four floors of the newly refurbished Clifton’s Republic in downtown, Clifton’s Canteen contained contagious crooning, dynamic dancing,…
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Cabaret Review: JERRY HERMAN: THE BROADWAY LEGACY CONCERT (Samueli Theater at SCFTA)
JERRY HERMAN’S LEGACY ISN’T IN JEOPARDY, BUT  TRIBUTE CONCERTS ARE With  an evening of Jerry Herman tunes sung by Broadway powerhouses Ron Raines, Karen Morrow, Debbie Gravitte, Jason Graae and Scott Coulter (pictured left), what could go wrong? Not much. But not much was spectacular either. A pleasant outing for those strolling down memory lane, this tribute…
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Theatre Preview: SHE LOVES ME (Fathom Events)
EVERYONE LOVES SHE LOVES ME Fathom Events is partnering with theater streaming service BroadwayHD to offer the Roundabout Theatre Company production of She Loves Me in cinemas nationwide on Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 7 p.m. local time. In addition to the performance, this one-night cinema event will include exclusive interviews with the cast (Laura Benanti, Zachary…
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Tour Preview: OUT OF THIS WORLD (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus)
THE COSMIC CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s traveling circus remains something to run away to see, if not join. For even diehard fans there are always new delights, and the current incarnation, Out Of This World, is taking audiences where no circus has gone before, upping the circus ante by conjuring up even…
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London Theatre Preview: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Fathom Events / Vaudeville Theatre)
A TRIVIAL COMEDY FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE When all seven of London’s major papers give a show the highest rating possible, I’m infused with frustration that I couldn’t be on the other side of the pond. Especially when it’s Oscar Wilde’s classic play The Importance of Being Earnest. Written shortly before Wilde fell afoul of society’s…
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Los Angeles Art Exhibit Review: THE CLOCK (Christian Marclay at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
TIME, THOU SHALL NOT BOAST Christian Marclay’s 2010 24-hour found-footage movie The Clock really is a clock: The 12,000-clip montage is only shown synchronized to local time, and through September 7 it’s running as an installation during LACMA hours. You can tell time by it. As a philosophical and spiritual reverie, it also tells time…
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Book Review: SHORTS AND BRIEFS: A COLLECTION OF SHORT PLAYS AND BRIEF PRINCIPLES OF PLAYWRITING (by Gregory Fletcher)
LET ME BE BRIEFS The title of Gregory Fletcher’s Shorts and Briefs doesn’t refer to an underwear drawer but rather to a collection of nine short plays along with sixteen brief chapters that share advice, tips, and principles on playwriting. Although the book’s primary focus is on playwriting, there’s plenty of good advice that applies to…
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Film Preview: THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO (Arena Cinema in Hollywood)
BETTER THAN 3-D Racking up an impressive 92% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Ian Cheney’s The Search for General Tso is arriving steaming hot in limited release on Jan 2. This mouthwateringly entertaining film travels the globe to unravel a captivating culinary mystery. General Tso’s chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence…
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Los Angeles Art Exhibit Review: HOLLYWOOD COSTUME (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD COSTUME More than a celebration and appreciation of over a century of cinematic costume design, this exquisite exhibit is a piece of art unto itself. Surprisingly, Hollywood Costume goes beyond a Planet Hollywood-esque display of artifacts with a swanky, insightful, and exhaustive (but not exhausting) look into the creative minds who brought…
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Los Angeles Art Exhibit Review: PIERRE HUYGHE (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
PIERRE IN WONDERLAND At the entrance to Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective at LACMA, a tuxedoed gentleman requested my name and then announced me to the exhibit as if I was entering a grand ball (Name Announcer, 2011). I was then greeted by a low-lit maze of angled and mostly stark white walls which led me down…
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Theater Obituary: RICHARD (RIC) MONTEJANO
“THIS JOURNEY IS MINE” Richard (Ric) Montejano was born on September 22, 1949 in San Gabriel and grew up in Van Nuys and then La Habra. In the late 1970’s, he found his true community in Silver Lake, CA where he lived as a creative artist, entrepreneur, and activist on his own terms, chasing his…
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London Dance Review: ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (The Royal Ballet)
BALLET THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Royal Ballet’s first full-length story ballet since 1995, received mixed reviews but was nonetheless an audience-pleasing success when it premiered in 2011. It returned in all its glory this year and a performance from March, 2013 was beamed to more than 500 cinemas…
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Book Review: SHOWBIZ (Dress Circle Publishing)
MOUNTING OLYMPUS Think of it as Twilight for the theater geek or Smash in literary form. You may love to hate it or hate to love it, but Ruby Preston’s new novel Showbiz is an undeniable page-turner: a fabulously fun, fictional glimpse into the drama of mounting a Broadway musical today. Scarlett Savoy is an…
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Regional Theater Attraction: TEN CHIMNEYS ESTATE (Genesee Depot, Wisconsin)
THE THEATER WAS HOME TO THE LUNTS, BUT THIS WAS THEIR HOME FROM THE THEATER From the 1920’s through the 1950’s, the husband and wife team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the First Couple of the American theater. The Lunts, as they were universally known, dominated the American stage with their successes extending…
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