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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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Dance Review: MOZART DANCES (Mark Morris Dance Group at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
MO’ MOZART DANCES, PLEASE What a tough day I had last Thursday. No details necessary, but I was so spent it was with worry when I attended Mark Morris’s Mozart Dances at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica that I thought sleep and ennui would be my only partners. Set to three exquisite Mozart piano…
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Theater Review: UNCLE VANYA (Pasadena Playhouse)
SAY “UNCLE!” Far be it from me to criticize Anton Chekhov. The long-deceased Russian playwright and short story writer is regarded as one of “The Greats” in all of literature; who am I to throw a dart at that great sky? It’s because of his prestige that I was actually looking forward to seeing a…
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Theater Review: INTERSTATE (East West Players)
INTERPLAY In the age of A Strange Loop, the hit Broadway musical about a “Big Black Queer” it seems the time is ripe for more musicals about the gay experience, but one with transgender characters as leads? Lesbian singer-songwriter Melissa Li and transgender spoken-word artist Kit Yan formed a band named Good Asian Drivers, which…
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Music Review: Ted Hearne’s PLACE (Power to the People! Festival with the LA PHIL at Disney Hall)
FINDING A PLACE AT DISNEY HALL Reviewing the contemporary theatrical oratorio Place a few years ago, Opera News Magazine suggested that Ted Hearne’s many–genred musical rumination on urban gentrification and its baleful underpinnings “seemed to arrive both at the right cultural moment and entirely too late.” As if to affirm this impression, the LA Philharmonic’s…
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Theater Review: KING JAMES (Mark Taper Forum)
BASKETBALL BROMANCE Center Theatre Group’s winning new dramady King James — a co-production with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Company — is a must see for more than just rabid sports fans. Nobody writes a tale of two straight boys in a bromance better than Rajiv Joseph (Guards at the Taj). And his two-hander, which opened last night…
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Theater Review: STOMP (National Tour)
STILL BANGING FOR THE BUCKS The incredibly basic concept behind Stomp, a phenom now in its third decade, remains: “Make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound.” (Luke Cresswell, co-founder/director). The result: four global productions, including permanent venues in New York and London’”and the rousing tour now playing…
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Los Angeles Theatre: PERRA DE NADIE [NOBODY’S BITCH] (LATC)
Latino Theater Company presents Spanish dancer, choreographer and performance artist Marta Carrasco in Perra de Nadie (“Nobody’s Bitch”). In the deepest part of everyone, where the underworld of vulnerability, madness, tenderness and fragility exist, lives Lili and her night watchmen, and her endearing vastness blooms. Marta Carrasco’s highly original creations, influenced by artists such as Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and…
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Theater Review: GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica)
GUESS WHAT PLAY WORKS Based on the screenplay of the same name, writer Todd Kreidler has updated for the stage Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer’s smash-hit 1967 movie by William Rose, writer of the classic Ealing black comedy The Ladykillers (1955) and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1966). A most satisfactory…
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Theater Review: BELOVED (Road Theatre in NoHo)
BELOVED THEATER At first, we think that Beloved is about the tragic state of the internet, that a high school boy at the prestigious St. Albans in Montreal, Canada, would never be in the mess he’s in had he not been able to find child porn online, let alone steal the password on the school’s…
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Theater Review: MAN OF GOD (Geffen Playhouse)
GODDAMNED MEN Four Korean teen missionaries from Los Angeles — Kyung-Hwa (Ji-Young Yoo), Samantha (Shirley Chen), Jen (Emma Galbraith), and Mimi (Erin Rae Li) — have arrived in Bangkok with their pastor to save the souls of red light district tourists … you know, the Germans who come to piddle with little boys dressed as…
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Review: COME FROM AWAY (North American Tour)
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER This intimate ensemble piece seems to get better and better, yet it’s practically the same show I saw when it first opened at La Jolla Playhouse and then on Broadway (where it remains a hit). The National Tour, which is merely breezing through L.A. for two weeks…
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Dance: SEVEN NEW FREE CLASSES (The Movement in Los Angeles)
THE MOVEMENT INTRODUCES SEVEN NEW FREE CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES INCLUDING HIP HOP, ZUMBA AND CONTEMPORARY The Movement, a nonprofit organization committed to making dance free and accessible to all, is pleased to announce their latest expansion, bringing seven new FREE dance classes to Los Angeles, CA. The Movement launched in 2021 in Miami by tech startup…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S NINTH (Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall))
LA PHIL’S PRIDE WITH “JOY” Wow, I do believe tonight’s house at Disney Hall was the most packed for a classical concert that I’ve seen since before that stupid COVID rat showed up. And it’s a sure bet that patrons were here for the massive showing of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Why, with the greatest chorus…
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