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Film Preview: AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S WEEK INCLUDES A SPIKE LEE INTERVIEW AND A DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE
AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S WEEK INCLUDES A SPIKE LEE INTERVIEW AND A DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE THE HIGH NOTE | Q&A with Director Nisha Ganatra Fri. June 19, 2020 | 7:00 PM PDT FREE Virtual Q&A with Director Nisha Ganatra Moderated by Carla Renata RSVP >> A SALUTE TO SPIKE LEE | Live Conversation with Spike Lee Sat. June 20, 2020 |…
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Theater Preview: INTERSECTIONALITY AND JUSTICE: A DISCUSSION (Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
INTERSECTIONALITY AND JUSTICE: A DISCUSSION Diversionary Theatre will be hosting an online panel discussion on Intersectionality & Justice, which takes place on Thursday ,June 25, 2020 at 6pm PST. The online panel, available here, includes Andrea Agosto, Kian Kline Chilton, Kandace Crystal, August Turner Sonnenberg, and Daniel Jáquez. Diversionary, the nation’s third oldest LGBTQ theatre…
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Theater Preview: ROGER Q. MASON (Celebration Theatre’s Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award Ceremony)
STAR-STUDDED CAST CELEBRATES ROGER Q. MASON Los Angeles’s Celebration Theatre announces its star-studded cast for this year’s virtual Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award Ceremony celebrating black queer writer/performer Roger Q. Mason. The award ceremony will be broadcast online Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 6 pm PST via YouTube, accessible by clicking Pride on the night of…
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Film Preview: MR.TOPAZE (directed by Peter Sellers) (Virtual Exclusive Engagement by American Cinematheque)
CATCH MR.TOPAZE, PETER SELLERS’ LONG LOST 1961 DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, NEWLY RESTORED IN 2K FROM THE LONE SURVIVING 35MM PRINT The comedy opens exclusively at American Cinematheque via Film Movement’s Virtual Cinema on June 12, 2020, for two weeks Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr. Topaze, an old role previously played by…
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Music Preview: UCLA SUMMER GLOBAL JAZZ INTENSIVE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (Hancock Institute of Jazz)
Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Fellows to teach at UCLA Summer Global Jazz Intensive for high school studentsNOW ONLINE Program Dates: June 22–27, 2020 Apply by June 5 Scholarships Available Ongoing Conversations: The Summer Global Jazz Intensive Online at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is a weeklong online summer intensive program designed for high school students…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE PRESENT (Geffen Stayhouse a.k.a. Geffen Playhouse)
CALIFORNIA STREAMIN’ Even after postponing the remaining productions of their 2019/2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead. While the UCLA-owned theater has high hopes for their upcoming 25th-anniversary season, let’s be honest: futures for any theater are being made with cautious optimism. Wearing the resilient adage “the show must…
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Theater Extra: SEASONS OF LOVE (San Diego Musical Theatre)
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with basically the same purpose: to entertain you at home and try to raise money for struggling organizations. But nothing in the past two months has…
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Music Preview: AT HOME WITH GUSTAVO (LA Phil)
KEEPING US TOGETHER WHILE WE’RE APART For some, sitting at home can during our long shut-in can be crazy-making, but not because there isn’t enough to stream. It’s just that so much of it is blather. Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel believes a major ingredient missing during these trying times is…
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Music Review: LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO (Royce Hall UCLA)
PRESERVING THE SPIRIT For the last live performance I may see for a long, long time, I attended a near-empty Royce Hall for the recording of a concert by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The group — best known for their astounding chorale rhythms on Paul Simon’s Graceland — had cancelled a previous date due to the…
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Theater Extras: SETTING THE STAGE FOR LEARNING (L.A. Theatre Works)
AN EDUCATION VIA STREAMING THEATER As schools are turning to at-home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, many teachers are struggling to find relevant, high-quality distance learning resources. Stage and Cinema is hoping you’ll spread the word to let teachers know about L.A. Theatre Works’ Setting the Stage for Learning educational arts program, which harnesses the…
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Theater Review: A BODY OF WATER (Actors Co-op)
PARTS OF A BODY Part Albee, part Ionesco, part mystery thriller, part Doubt, part Groundhog Day and — sadly — all red herrings, Lee Blessing’s 2005 A Body of Water can’t decide what it wants to be in the end — which is a shame because individual parts of this body are bracing. (Actor Co-op’s…
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Theater Review: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (A Noise Within in Pasadena)
WHAT A WONDER Childhood whimsy is seen through the looking-glass of adult sophistication at A Noise Within. Based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), this 1932 stage adaptation — co-written by Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus — faithfully honors its source materials,…
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Theater Review: HOME (On Tour at The Broad Stage)
A HOME RUN What do you think of when you think of home? Is it the place where you were born? Is it where you are living now? Is it where you followed your growth by measuring yourself against one of its walls? Is it the home you built? Is it the home you inherited…
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Theater Reviews: GHOSTS, NEVER SWIM ALONE and LANDSCAPE (Inkblots “A” &”B” of Open Fist’s Rorschach Fest)
OUR INKBLOT INTERPRETATIONS: SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLENDID Theater isn’t just what it brings to us, it’s also what we bring to it. At least, that’s the general idea behind Open Fist Theatre Company’s Rorschach Fest, a series of five experimental one-act plays from risk-taking playwrights: John O’Keefe, Harold Pinter, Daniel MacIvor, and Caryl Churchill….
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Film Review: PANDORA’S BOX (directed by G. W. Pabst)
OUTSIDE OF THE BOX Norma Desmond‘s iconic pronouncement “We had faces then” might well have been written specifically for Louise Brooks. This is a face that defies time and period, and is as relevant today as it was in 1929 when she was lured to Germany by G. W. Pabst to play the doomed Lulu…
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Music Preview: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS WITH JOSHUA BELL, VIOLIN (The Soraya)
I’LL BE THERE WITH BELL ON Many know that Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a touring and recording chamber orchestra founded by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958. But did you know that since 2011 the world-renowned virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell has been their Music Director? Next to Marriner, who turns 90 next…
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Opera Review: ROBERTO DEVEREUX (LA Opera)
DEVERSTATING It was the middle-child opera of the season; not like the world-premiere Eurydice or the must-see Ring Cycle. Roberto Devereux is a lesser-known Donizetti confection, and erstwhile Artistic Director Plácido Domingo was set to hot-ticket this tale of Queen Elizabeth and her lover Essex that likely hasn’t been an opera question on Jeopardy! Except…
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Theater Review: SHE LOVES ME (San Diego Musical Theatre at Horton Grand Theatre)
SHE LOVES ME:AND WITH GOOD REASON! Ah, love. As hard to find as ever, but so satisfying when it is. But what did the ancients (20th-century people) do to find love before Tinder, eHarmony, and the like? Joe Masteroff’s book takes us to the simpler days of Lonely Hearts Clubs, when people exchanged letters (on…
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Theater Review: HUMAN INTEREST STORY (Fountain)
HERE’S SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST YOU This is the second show this year in L.A. to take head-on the insanity of modern journalism (the insanity being that while newspapers deliver so-called news, they gotta make a buck, so sensationalism often wins out [ask Hearst], but now we have the interenet to contend with, where any…
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Theater Review: FOUND (IAMA Theatre Company)
LOST … AND FOUND Found: A New Musical is determined to find its way. After a run off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2014, this reworked West Coast premiere — now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown L.A., stumbles through its first act with vague ambitions, disconnection, and cloying clichés, only…
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