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Music Review: HOLIDAY SING-ALONG (LA Phil at Disney Hall)
A SING-ALONG WHERE WE DIDN’T SING ALONG WORKED OUT SWELL The matinee performance of LA Phil’s Holiday Sing-Along last Saturday was festive, kitschy and funny. Due to COVID, the concert’s annual sing-along format shifted into a fully presented performance. But truly, except for the returnee, one would ever know that it wasn’t normal that patrons…
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Music, Dance, Theater & Concerts: THE BROAD STAGE (Santa Monica)
The Broad Stage is presenting these twenty-eight attractions Jan to June 2022 Subscription packages, starting at $47, are on sale at thebroadstage.org or 310.434.3200. Premieres — The Broad Stage is a theatre conceived and designed toshowcase new work; 2022 season features a world premiere and three Los Angeles premieres Iphigenia (February 17-19) premiere opera by jazz great esperanza spalding and…
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Theater Review: CAGES (Woolf and the Wondershow, DTLA)
CAGES : AND THE FUTURE OF THEATER In late September, the long-delayed Tony Awards proudly announced: “Broadway’s Back!” Yet even before Christmas, theaters from The Great White Way to L.A. have canceled performances — even closed shows early — due to an upward surge of Omicron, the latest COVID-19 variant. This, of course, falls on…
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Film Festival: DANCE CAMERA WEST (20th Anniversary in L.A.)
20TH ANNIVERSARY Dance Camera West Film Festival JANUARY 6 – 15, 2022 LIVE IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL SCREENINGS +++ 75+ FILM PREMIERES IN 11 SCREENINGS 2 WEEKENDS AT 2 LOS ANGELES VENUES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF 6 DANCE CAMERA WEST COMMISSIONED FILMS! POP-UP PERFORMANCES DJ DANCE AFTER PARTIES 2022 DCW FESTIVAL OVERVIEWEach film will…
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Theater Review: ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE (North Coast Rep)
CRAZY FOR LOVIN’ ALWAYS PATSY CLINE Is it a musical? A play with music? A tribute act? A duo cabaret act? Always:Patsy Cline is a little of each, coming together sweetly to be something unto itself. APC tells the true story of Louise Seger (Becky Barta), a devoted fan of country-music legend Patsy Cline, adoring…
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Theater Review: TICK, TICK… BOOM! (Up Next Productions at the Thymele Arts Atlas Space)
SEASONS OF TICK, TICK… BOOM! One of the fortunate effects of the world spiraling into madness and postponing what was supposed to be Up Next Productions’ thirty-year anniversary tick, tick… BOOM!, slated for Spring 2020, is prodigious timing. The recent passing of Stephen Sondheim (a looming presence throughout the work), a year-and-change of having to…
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Theater Review: THE BAND’S VISIT (National Tour)
LOST IN THE DESERT Winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical of 2018, Itamar Moses’s The Band’s Visit is one of the most highly-awarded shows in musical theater history. And yet, those expecting the razzmatazz of a Big Broadway Musical in The Band’s Visit’s “post-shutdown” North American Tour are likely to be at least somewhat…
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Review: THE NUTCRACKER SUITE (American Contemporary Ballet in Hollywood)
DON’T SEE THE NUTCRACKER SUITE — LIVE IT There are certain new concepts in theatre of which one has learned to become wary: “color-blind casting”, “gender-blind casting” and most frightening of all, “age-blind casting” are now accepted and inescapable, if often confusing for an audience attempting to discern family lineage. But as the list grows,…
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Music Review: JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, Piano (Debussy’s Preludes at Walt Disney Concert Hall)
C’EST MAGNIFIQUE In a recent interview Jean-Yves Thibaudet described his decision to “stick with” the piano over the violin after years spent learning both as a child. On the keys, he realized, “You feel like king of the world. You can create every color, every dynamic.” And last week, on a foggy night in his…
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Theater Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Ahmanson Theatre)
SCROOGED After a year or two since Covid shutdowns made in-person theater nearly unheard of, a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has made its way from London to Broadway to sunny L.A. to liven our world-weary spirits. And luckily, surprisingly : eventually : it manages to do just that, if only in…
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Film Screenings: ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES (Screenings and Programs Through January 2022)
ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES ANNOUNCES FILM AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING THROUGH JANUARY 2022 OVER 100 SCREENINGS AND PROGRAMS SPOTLIGHT THE WORK OF ACADEMY BRANCHES AND FILMMAKING CRAFTS, FILMS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEXICAN CINEMA, AUSTRIAN EMIGRÉS WHO SHAPED HOLLYWOOD, CONTEMPORARY AFGHAN CINEMA, ACADEMY GOVERNORS AWARDS HONOREES, FAMILY MATINEES, OSCAR ®-WINNING AND -NOMINATED FILMS, AND MUCH…
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Upcoming Concert: NOCHEBUENA (The Soraya at CSUN)
Happy Holidays’”LA Style! Now a popular holiday tradition at The Soraya, the lively Nochebuena celebration returns live on stage for two free performances Friday, December 10 at 8pm and Saturday, December 11 at 3 pm. These are the final 2021 free concerts presented by The Soraya as a thank to audiences returning to live performances….
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Opera Review: HANSEL AND GRETEL (Pacific Opera Project)
HANSEL AND GRETEL GO POP Humperdinck began his career as an assistant to Richard Wagner; mercifully, this did not influence his composition of Hansel and Gretel, which is light and folksy throughout, and its unWagnerlike running time comes in at less than two hours. Perhaps the most commendable takeaway from his association with Wagner is…
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Theater Review: SHE THE PEOPLE (Second City at San Diego Rep)
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A COMIC BREAKDOWN The Second City school of comedy never held back on giving funny women stage time, even going back to the sixties and seventies. From Joan Rivers to Gilda Radner to Catherine O’Hara, showcasing funny women has been one of their triumphs, leading many of them to SNL…
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Theater Review: THE CHILDREN (Fountain Theatre in Hollywood)
SLOW TO DIE, OR FAST TO LIVE? The setting is the story in The Children, Fountain Theatre’s L.A. premiere. Set designer Andrew Hammer depicts a hand-me-down yet tidy seaside cottage off the east coast of England. This remote shelter, which gets power only after 10pm, stands on a cliff just outside an “exclusion zone,” the site of a…
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Theater Review: HEAD OVER HEELS (Pasadena Playhouse)
MY HEAD SAID “STAY” BUT MY HEELS SAID “RUN”, OR A BEAT OFF You may have never heard of the musical Head Over Heels, but this screwy mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s’ female rock band The Go-Go’s has been around the block since 2015. From…
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Music Review: MOZART AND RAVEL (Matthias Pintscher, conductor; Sunwook Kim, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic)
RAPTUROUS RAVEL Of all the entertainment venues in Los Angeles denied us during the COVID years, perhaps the one I’ve missed most is the Disney Concert Hall. So it was a joy to be back there on Saturday, in a packed audience, to experience a splendid program presented by one of the finest philharmonics in…
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Upcoming: PEE-WEE HERMAN RADIO SHOW (KCRW)
PEE-WEE HERMAN (ME!!) GETS A RADIO SHOW ON KCRW! Milky Way Galaxy, Planet Earth, Next to the Pacific Ocean, i.e. Santa Monica, CA: Dear most esteemed people, it’s Pee-wee Herman here and I am going to be a DJ on a new radio show airing on KCRW! I’m so excited, it’s my very first one!…
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Theater Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (National Tour)
JESUS TRADES SOUL FOR A MAN BUN While the the 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is still finding its footing in this truncated version (90 intermissionless minutes), Timothy Sheader’s 2016 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production was greeted warmly by patrons at Segerstrom Hall, the tour’s kickoff…
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Theater Opening: EVERBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE (North American Premiere at The Ahmanson in Los Angeles)
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE‘S OPENING Casting has been announced and tickets are now on sale for Friends Ticket Presale & American Express ® Presale and, Nov. 17, the general public for the North American premiere of the West End hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre Jan 16 thru Febu 20, 2022. Layton…
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