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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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Upcoming Dance: THE CHANDELIER (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
DUCKLER DANCE LIGHTS UP AT THE WALLIS Live dance returns to The Wallis with the world premiere of August 12-15, 2021, 8:00 pm’s The Chandelier, a site-specific work choreographed and directed by Ms. Duckler, running August 12–15, 2021 on The Wallis’s outdoor stage. Taking the audience on an epic journey, The Chandelier, created for The Wallis, is…
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Concert Review: LEDISI WITH THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC (Conducted by Thomas Wilkins at the Hollywood Bowl)
FEELING GOOD, INDEED! Man, what a party! The Hollywood Bowl and Los Angeles Philharmonic hosted the grand dame of soulful fun, Ledisi (pronounced LEH ·duh ·see), for her tribute to Nina Simone. The air was thick with jubilant socializing as guests were more charming, friendly and generous than I have seen in years. Yes, yes, yes, there…
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Film: THE PRINCESS BRIDE IN CONCERT (The Hollywood Bowl)
Director Rob Reiner to introduce the world premiere of The Princess Bride in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl ######### The Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by conductor David Newman, will perform, live-to-picture, Mark Knopfler’s score, which has been specially arranged for full orchestra. ######### One Night Only – July 31, 2021, at 8:00 p.m. The Los Angeles…
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Theater: TOMB (2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival)
WHEN IT’S BETTER TO BE ALONE A psychological thriller set in deep space, TOMB, which opens August 16 at Thymele Arts, finds Alithia (Dana Majeski) alone with Captain McKinley (Danny Manning) as they make their way towards planet Cerulean. However, Alithia has no memories of her past or how she got there. As she attempts…
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Theater: THE HUNGER ARTIST (The Porters of Hellsgate at The Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2021)
The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company present THE HUNGER ARTIST by Franz Kafka, starring Larry Cedar. The Hunger Artist makes its VIRTUAL debut at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, marking the fifth in a series of one-man literary stagings adapted by Cedar beginning in 2013 with ORWELLIAN (based on the works of George Orwell), NOTES…
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Music Review: Conductor ENLUIS MONTES OLIVAR & Pianist LUKíŠ VONDRíÄŒEK (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff at The Hollywood Bowl)
OLIVAR TWISTS While it’s fair to say that last night’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl saw Venezuelan conductor (and Gustavo Dudamel fellow) Enluis Montes Olivar in virtuosic splendor, it’s also fair to say that the three works came off more like a technical achievement than an emotional marvel. Which isn’t to say the rather well-attended…

















