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Concert Recommendation & Interview: A SALUTE TO SONDHEIM (GMCLA, Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison)
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim, an awesome new concert from the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. The season finale concert — which plays this Saturday and Sunday,…
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Theater Review: THE PROM (North American Tour)
PROM-COM Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages and head over to The Ahmanson Theatre, where The Prom just landed as part of its national tour. Forget smelly gymnasiums or dated themes, as this prom is full of high-energy dance numbers, colorful characters, theatrical in-jokes and a litany of Broadway-style tunes that divert even as…
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Theater Review: HADESTOWN (North American Tour)
GO TO TOWN I am convinced that me colleague Marc Wheeler nailed the many reasons in his review of Hadestown why you must see this national tour. One of the most original musicals to come out in years, Hadestown still sells out on Broadway even as a National Tour is on the road. Indeed, some…
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Theater Review: THE METROMANIACS (Theatre 40, Beverly Hills)
THE ANACHRONISMIACS Poetry is all the rage in the madcap comedy, The Metromaniacs, David Ives’ 2015 English “translaptation” of La Métromanie (1738), an obscure French farce by Alexis Piron. While La Métromanie jocularly reflected the “poetry craze” of its era, Ives’ remake offers a modern lens in which to lovingly jeer that same 18th-century phenomenon….
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Theater Review: AMERICAN IDIOT (Chance Theater, Anaheim)
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Inspired by a 2004 rock album by the American pop-punk rock band Green Day, American Idiot has received its share of positive reviews since its premiere in Berkeley, California in 2009 and subsequent runs on Broadway, on tour, at colleges, and regional and community theaters. When I saw the tour…
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Theater Review: KING LIZ (Geffen Playhouse)
A PLAY OFF A rich, black, ball-busting pro-sports super-agent who has worked her way up from poverty to making partner at a major firm. The white male head of that agency who wants his protégé of 22 years to take over the company as he nears retirement. The agent’s put-upon ambitious Latina assistant of five…
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Film / Art: REGENERATION: BLACK CINEMA 1898–1971 (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures)
ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES OPENS REGENERATION: BLACK CINEMA 1898–1971 ON AUGUST 21, 2022 Offering the public a chance to learn more about how Black performers and filmmakers have helped define cinema in the United States, the exhibition explores the achievements and challenges of both independent production and the studio system, from cinema’s infancy in…
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Theater Review: CHOPIN IN PARIS (The Wallis)
CLASS ACT Nestled comfortably inside the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Hershey Felder: Chopin in Paris is an enchanting “play with music” on the life of the renowned pianist and composer, Fryderyk Chopin. In the title role of this one-man show is Hershey Felder. Known for his biographical works on…
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Theater Opening: THE METROMANIACS (Los Angeles Premiere at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills)
THE METROMANIACS BEGINS ON JULY 21, 2022 Metromaniacs aren’t people who are crazy about subways. They are people who are nuts about poetry, i.e. verse composed in meter. David Ives’ play The Metromaniacs is an English language adaptation of a French farce from 1738, La Metromaie, and it is set in Paris in that year, a moment when there was a…
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Theater Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (North American Tour)
MOULIN “ROGUE”! It wasn’t just the powerhouse romance between Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. With its frenetic theatrics and killer soundtrack (virgin ballads locking lips with re-imagined pop hits), Baz Luhrmann’s epic, high-octane love story, Moulin Rouge! (2001), was always destined for the stage. But Broadway, it appears, is the Duke in disguise here, promising…
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Music Recommendation: SUMMER OF BEETHOVEN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (Doheny Mansion, July 14-17, 2022)
SUMMER OF LOVE Once while in Salzburg, I happened upon a chamber concert in a private home. Our host explained that compositions for piano, trio, sonatas, quartets, and quintets were designed for intimate spaces such as the luxuriant parlor we sat in. The sound of the music, so close to your soul, was unlike anything…
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Event: WEST SIDE STORY (2021) IN CONCERT (Hollywood Bowl)
WEST SIDE STORY (2021) IN CONCERT Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil bring to life the score of Steven Spielberg’s celebrated new film adaptation of the legendary musical as it’s projected on the big screens Tuesday, July 12 and Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 8 p.m. PT Photo: Niko Tavernise ©2021 20th Century Studios As part…
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Theater: 30TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL (Blank Theatre)
THE BLANK THEATRE’S 30TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL Professional actors and directors present 12 winning plays by young playwrights from across the nation as digital shorts, streaming on Vimeo and then migrating to The Blank’s 3rd Stage on Patreon. Three different plays are presented each week (two plays in week four and one play in week five)….
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Theater Review: ROE (Fountain Theatre)
On a beautiful breezy Sunday evening, my husband and I sat down in the parking lot of the Fountain Theater embracing ourselves to an emotional night. In this LA premiere hyper-staged reading of the play Roe, a gregarious and eager audience congregated at the theater. This is a timely piece of art that I think…
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Theater Announcement: KINKY BOOTS (The Hollywood Bowl)
CASTING NEWS FOR KINKY BOOTS AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL Kinky Boots Hollywood Bowl Friday, July 8, at 8; Saturday, July 9, at 8; Sunday, July 10, at 7:30 For tickets, call 323 850 2000 or visit Hollywood Bowl Joining the previously announced Wayne Brady in the role of Lola, Jake Shears as Charlie, and Kelly Marie Tran as Lauren, the…
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Free Events: SUNSET CONCERTS (Skirball Cultural Center)
SUNSET CONCERTS Thursday evenings, July 21–August 25, 2022, at 8:00 pm From beloved Sunset Concerts alumni to up-and-coming international performers, this season offers artistry and storytelling that harnesses music’s unique power to bring communities together, forge cultural bonds, and move hearts and minds. Visit Skirball for more info. Visitors are encouraged to arrive early to…
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Concert Recommendations: 2022-23 FALL/WINTER (UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance)
Highlights include the return of Obie Award-winning theater duo 600 Highwaymen, Grammy Award-winning artists Antonio Sánchez and Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and more. UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) announces the 2022–23 Fall/Winter program lineup bringing Grammy Award-winning musicians, masters of dance and multi-disciplinary collaborations to the stages…
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Theater Review: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE (International City Theatre in Long Beach)
A LOVE LETTER TO THE ART OF DRAG June 10th on a lovely cool evening, my husband and I, after the third attempt of looking for the correct parking spaces, found ourselves seated in a beautiful theater space overlooking the convention halls of the Long Beach, The Beverly O’Neill Theater. We were treated to an…
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Streaming Theater: WE’RE NOT FREE UNTIL WE’RE ALL FREE (Skylight)
Juneteenth Commemorates Freedom with 2nd Annual Celebration – Uplifting Voices of Marginalized Communities “We’re Not Free Until We’re All Free is a series of panels in celebration of Juneteenth to honor and uplift the voices of marginalized communities, recognizing that we all must be liberated in the fight for freedom. Created by Tyree Marshall and Celia…
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Theater Event: ROE (by Lisa Loomer; a “hyper-staging” at The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood)
The Fountain Theatre jumps into action with a “hyper-staged” reading of Roe, a powerful, poignant and often humorous play by Lisa Loomer that cuts through the headlines to reveal the real-life women — Norma McCorvey, known as “Jane Roe” and Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued the case — behind Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court…
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