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Theater: STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT (Vs. Theatre Company & Circle X Theatre Co. in Los Angeles)
“You’ve tried everything. Yoga. Acupuncture. Therapy. You floated in salt water in the pitch- black dark. You juiced, you cleansed, you journaled, you cut, you volunteered. You got a mattress that fitted itself to your fetal form. You ate only RINDS for three days and nights. You reached out, you looked within, You have tried. and yet here…
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Music Review: BEETHOVEN/SCHUMANN (Marta Gardolińska and Hélène Grimaud with the LA Phil at The Hollywood Bowl)
GARDOLIŃSKA SCORES A TEN WITH BEETHOVEN SEVEN The highly accessible and gloriously melodic Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann was one of my very first intros to classical music (the Romantic period to be precise) as a youngster. I became completely immersed and addicted — memorizing every phrase, tempo shift and nuance. It remains a favorite…
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Opera Review: LA CENERENTOLA (Pacific Opera Project at The Ford in Los Angeles)
WITTY CENERENTOLA POPS WITH CHARM After being starved of live opera in Los Angeles for more than a year and a half, there was no better way to celebrate its return to a stage than with the Pacific Opera Project’s splendid production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola. Rossini composed the opera when he was 25 years old,…
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Film Event: BLACK PANTHER IN CONCERT (Your Guide to Black Panther in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl)
Your guide to Black Panther in Concert Step 1: Have your rideshare drop you off in Lot B Step 2: Or drive yourself and park on-site Step 3: Find your seats Step 4: Applaud the orchestra Step 5: Cheer for victory! See Black Panther in a somewhat larger format than the above — with live orchestra —…
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Theater Opening: it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! (Odyssey Theatre)
Odyssey Theatre presents 4 performances of John Fleck’s it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! a musical cabaret special event-in-progress We’re deconstructing again. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents an entertaining and provoking musical cabaret-style special event, conceived and performed by legendary performance artist John Fleck (Blacktop Highway, Mad Women, NEA Four). it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! gets four work-in-progress performances on Sept. 18, Sept. 25, Oct. 2 and Oct. 9 in advance of a full-fledged opening…
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Theater: ENCORE PERFORMANCES (HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS)
Congratulations to these award winners of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Here are their encore performances. TransSetter. Winner of the Encore Producers Award. Written and performed by Veronica Carey Matthews. Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson. After a series of self-inflicted tragedies, a Hollywood dreamer has to go back to basics and figure out some life truths. Out…
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Dance: RESOUND (Leela Dance Collective in Los Angeles)
A 5-Day Celebration of Kathak Dance Reverberating through the Streets of Los Angeles Get ready. ReSound is bringing kathak dance from the courts of Medieval India to the streets of L.A., featuring a 5-day celebration of free performances and $10 workshops to educate and inspire audiences of all ages. The public is invited to experience…
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Concert Hall: THE SORAYA’S 2021-22 SEASON (Northridge, CA)
Handily one of our greatest performance venues, The Soraya just keeps getting better with its programming. And as a 10th Anniversary Gift to the Community, there will be Five Free Events to kick off a spectacular season. Members at any level secure guaranteed seating to all Free concerts. Non-member reservations (limit 4 per household) will be taken…
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Theater opening: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Fremont Centre Theatre)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST OPENS TONIGHT AT FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE Performed for live audiences at Fremont Centre Theatre, it will also be livestreamed, so there will be that option for online audiences as well. The Importance of Being Earnest is the most popular of the comedies written by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Set in London and in…
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Music Concert: MARIACHI ARCOIRIS DE LOS ANGELES (World’s First Queer Mariachi Band at The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
The Wallis’s Summer @ The Wallis Presents Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles, the world’s first queer mariachi band, presents sounds and rhythms from south of the border in back-to-back performances on Thursday and Friday, August 26 and 27, 2021, 8 pm, on the outdoor stage at The Wallis in Beverly Hills….
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Dance Opening: ALONZO KING LINES BALLET | BALLETX | PARSONS DANCE COMPANY (Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa)
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2021 DANCE PERFORMANCES ALONZO KING LINES BALLET BALLETX PARSONS DANCE COMPANY Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ 2021 Dance performances begin next month at Segerstrom Hall with three of the most innovative North American dance companies. From modern dance to contemporary ballet, the Center will host an extraordinary range of performances…
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Virtual Theater Review: WE LIVE ON (Actors’ Gang)
WE LIVE ON Based on HARD TIMES by STUDS TERKEL With additional text by Tim Robbins and The Cast Directed by TIM ROBBINS Music Director – David Robbins Music performed by Cameron Dye Cars waiting in long lines for food. People being evicted and their possessions being repossessed. Tent cities of the homeless and destitute rising up in places they had not been…
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Theater: RON ATHEY / ACEPHALOUS MONSTER (REDCAT)
A MONSTER ARTIST Better get tickets NOW. The influential performance artist and provocateur Ron Athey is coming to L.A.’s REDCAT Aug. 26 to 28, 2021 to present the Los Angeles premiere of Acephalous Monster, a performance with projections, readings, lectures, appropriated text and sound. Largely inspired by the secret society of Acéphale, Andre Masson’s design of…
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Theater Reopening: CYGNET THEATRE (San Diego)
A SEASON OF HOPE, REDEMPTION, HUMOR AND HEART STARTS IN SEPT. WITH THREE MUSICALS AND THREE PLAYS Cygnet Theatre has announced a joyful and overdue return to in-person performances starting in September. Audiences are set to experience a season of hope, redemption and humor beginning with the long-awaited return of the Tony award-winning musical La…
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Theater: DURANG!: FOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS (Live and Streaming from The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021)
DURANG TIMES FOUR Coming to the Hollywood Fringe Festival soon is Durang!, performed by a fun and diverse cast of 12 local L.A. actors, consists of four wild and hilarious one-act plays written by the incomparable Christopher Durang, writer of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Beyond Therapy, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It…
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Upcoming Concert: DYLAN GOES HOLLYWOOD (MUSE/IQUE at The Huntington Library and The Skirball Cultural Center)
MUSE/IQUE PRESENTS L.A. COMPOSED: A FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES MUSIC: “DYLAN GOES HOLLYWOOD” August 18 & 19 at The Huntington; August 22 at The Skirball For those who have never been to a MUSE/IQUE concert, it’s assemblage of transplendent talent, founder and curator Rachael Worby’s historical annotations, and a wide-ranging selection of music and spoken…
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Concert: BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV (Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the LA Phil and Gemma New at the Hollywood Bowl)
DO NOT MISS BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL THIS WEEK Pianist Behzod Abduraimov is coming to the Hollywood Bowl this Thursday, August 5, 2021, so prepare yourself for one of the world’s greatest pianists. In fact, the in-demand, rightfully popular 30-year-old Uzbek pianist, who was born in Tashkent in 1990 just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, may…
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Upcoming Theater: BOY CRAZY PSYCHO SLUT (2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival)
Are we who we say we are? Or do others get to decide that for us? In Boy Crazy Psycho Slut, a woman explores this throughout every stage of her life. In this solo show, making its premiere at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Jo Dellapina takes us on a journey from ages 5 to…
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Theater Opening: AND THE BEAT GOES ON: A COMEDIC CABARET (2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival)
Performer Charley Karlotta pulls from her experience as a nurse to examine the mind-body connection and how it affects her (and everyone’s) life in this unique solo show. As a nurse with years of experience, artist Charley Karlotta has witnessed many inexplicable occurrences in her career, especially when it comes to patients pulling off the…
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Theater: LIZASTRATA (Troubadour Theater Company, Getty Villa)
THE TROUBIES ARE PUTTING OUT Tickets are now on sale for this hilarious musical retelling of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, one of history’s greatest theatrical offerings. Lizastrata takes on the establishment, storms the Acropolis, and holds the treasury hostage until the long-warring men of Athens and Sparta commit to declaring peace. Her strategy? All the women go…
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