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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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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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