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Film: NOVEMBER LINE-UP IS A FILM LOVER’S DREAM (American Cinematheque in Los Angeles)
TERRIFIC LINE-UP JUST ADDED AT AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ‘1971: 50th Anniversary’ Series Sat. November 6, 2021 – Sun. November 28, 2021 Los Feliz 3 Theatre Celebrate the 50th anniversaries of these classic 1971 films. Films include: DEATH IN VENICE, DUSTY AND SWEETS MCGEE, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE OMEGA MAN, THE CEREMONY, THX 1138, KLUTE, MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, WALKABOUT, WR: MYSTERIES…
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Film: A WEEK OF EVENTS FOR FILM LOVERS (Cinema @ The Wallis in partnership with Film Independent in Beverly Hills)
A Week of Events for Film Lovers The Wallis and Film Independent present their third season of star-studded and unique performances featuring popular Live Reads, special conversations with filmmakers and Bring The Noise musical composition deep dives. TUES, NOV. 9, 7:00PM An Evening With… Denis Villeneuve The French Canadian filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, caught the industry’s…
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Film and Music Review: “GET OUT” WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA (LA Opera at The Theatre at Ace Hotel)
COME IN TO GET OUT In an immensely satisfying Halloween entertainment, Jordan Peele’s splendid thriller, Get Out, was accompanied by the LA Opera Orchestra playing the score live under the baton of the composer Michael Abels. Composer/conductor Michael Abels conducts “Get Out with Live Orchestra” (taken on opening night, October 29, 2021 by Lawrence K….
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Opera Opening: HANSEL AND GRETEL (Pacific Opera Project)
Pacific Opera Project (POP) continues its 2021-2022 fairytale-themed opera season with an outdoor, family-friendly production of Englebert Humperdinck’s iconic opera Hansel and Gretel. POP returns to one of its favorite venues, Forest Lawn Glendale, for performances on Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 5:00pm; Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 5:00pm; Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 5:00pm; and…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS MAHLER (LA Phil)
THREE HOOTS FOR HOOTEN! Gustavo Dudamel’s formidable venture into Mahler’s symphonies with the LA Phil hit a real high mark with the magnificent performance of the Fourth Symphony the Fourth Symphony. The LA Phil is now one of America’s finest playing ensembles, and its amazing stratospheric association with Dudamel has already produced grand results. There…
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Music Preview: TCHAIKOVSKY AND SAARIAHO WITH Mí„LKKI (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana may be young (28!), but she’s already established herself touring the world and recording an amazing album catalog, including awesome attacks on The Goldberg Variations and Chopin. She also recorded the quintessential Russian piano concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Number One. Now, The LA Phil’s amazing Principal Guest Conductor, Susanna Målkki — who has…
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Theater Review: POOR CLARE (Echo Theater Company)
THE THEATER IS RICHER DUE TO POOR CLARE Every once in a while, a bright shiny play comes along that absolutely restores my faith in theater as a place to be entertained, enthralled, and enlightened while nodding my head in agreement with the universal themes therein. It’s also a pleasure to discover a playwright with…
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Theater Review: SEVEN GUITARS (A Noise Within in Pasadena)
TURNING LYRICAL INTO A MIRACLE In emphasizing the “musical lyricism” of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, A Noise Within’s promotional copy for its new production echoes the numerous commentaries devoted to this play. Covering its 1995 Broadway premiere, The New York Times described it as “moving and lyrical,” while Los Angeles Magazine called it a “lyrical…
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Concert Preview: AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS (The Soraya)
MARSALIS IN WONDERLAND Exactly a year before the COVID shutdown, the Branford Marsalis Quartet had just released their new album, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. The new album finds the celebrated ensemble at a new peak, addressing a kaleidoscope of moods with inspiration and group commitment. This quartet that saxophonist Branford Marsalis…
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Opera Review: TANNHí„USER (Los Angeles Opera)
IF BEING WRONG IS A VENUSIAN SEX ORGY, WHO WANTS TO BE RIGHT? Being Japanese, I am innately programmed to keep clutter to a minimum. Not much adorns my computer desktop screen, save the bare essentials ’” amongst which is the full score to Tannhåuser, some of the most inventive, majestic music constructed to date,…
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Dance Review: BODYTRAFFIC (Ethan Cohen “Recurrence”; Micaela Taylor “SNAP”; Hoffesh Shecter “Dust”; and Alejandro Cerrudo “PACOPEPEPLUTO” at The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
THAT’S AMORE! L.A.’s amazing dance company BODYTRAFFIC returned to The Wallis’s gorgeous Bram Goldsmith Theater in Beverly Hills last weekend with a three-night engagement of four outstanding works that proved why this L.A.-based contemporary company has continually taken the dance world by storm, easily surpassing LA Dance Project as our greatest homegrown modern dance company….
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Theater Review: THE MINEOLA TWINS (Moxie in San Diego)
DOUBLE TROUBLE IN MINEOLA Paula Vogel, likely best known for her Pulitzer prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, isn’t afraid to tackle tough themes. In The Mineola Twins, she does so by drenching sensitive topics in a twisted, surrealist comedy that is more a series of connected moments than an actual plot. Everything is fair…
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Theater Review: A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
AMERICA’S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt, if sometimes overwrought, salute which happily honors and delightfully reprises the glorious, all-American (in the best sense) Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and their inexhaustible legacy…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS STRAUSS (LA Phil)
CONSIDER YOURSELF TRANSFIGURED Americans are weary. We remain as divisive as ever, a situation fueled by social media, news, and other white noise. We are working harder and longer yet struggle to pay bills — at the same time quitting jobs in record numbers. Instead of being inspired to do more to combat the speed…
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Theater Review: MOTHER ROAD (San Diego REP)
ROUTE 66 WAS ONE MOTHER OF A ROAD In John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, we follow along Route 66 the sad travels of Tom Joad and his family, who flee the desperation of Oklahoma’s dustbowl calamity hoping for a safe farming life in California. In Octavio Solis’s Mother Road, there is one…
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Theater Review: MY FAIR LADY (National Tour)
STILL THE FAIREST I’m rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Henry Higgins, a puffed-up upper-class grammarian, and Eliza Doolittle, his lower-class, flower girl protégé whom Higgins turns into a lady by changing her speech. With one of the most…
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Theater Review: ASCENSION (Echo Theater Company)
THE ASCENSION OF L.A. THEATER The community of small theater groups in Los Angeles has taken so many debilitating blows over the past several years — before, during and since the COVID shutdown — that it amazes how some continually clamber to re-open. This month the Echo Theater Company forges ahead with two new shows….
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Theater: REDCAT’S 18TH ANNUAL NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL (Roy & Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Disney Hall)
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the 18th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a celebration of Los Angeles’ vibrant community of artists creating new contemporary performance work, over three weekends this fall: Oct. 7-9, Oct. 14-16, and Oct. 21-23. This year’s festival returns to in-person performances with nine new…
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Theater Review: ZOMBIE JOE’S URBAN DEATH (Zombie Joe’s Underground in North Hollywood)
ZOMBIE JOE’S URBAN DEATH RISES FROM THE GRAVE After all the horrors of the last few years, it seemed only fitting that we should return to Urban Death, the signature production of Zombie Joe’s Underground theater company in North Hollywood. Last weekend we checked out its latest installment, this year subtitled “Tour of Terror” and…
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Theater Opening: POOR CLARE (Echo Theater Company)
The Echo Theater Company’s world premiere production of Poor Clare will open in October, 19 months after the originally scheduled March, 2020 opening that was shuttered by the pandemic. Echo associate artistic director Alana Dietze (Dry Land) is back at the helm of Chiara Atik’s powerful and very funny modern spin on the medieval story of Saint Clare of Assisi. Poor Clare will open…
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