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Music Preview: YOLA NATIONAL AT HOME (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
BRING IT HOME The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association introduces YOLA National at Home, a series of open-source courses, masterclasses with LA Phil musicians, project-based learning, and keynote addresses from Gustavo Dudamel and Thomas Wilkins that will be offered from July 10-31, 2020, via Zoom and YouTube Live. YOLA National at Home was developed following the…
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Theater Preview: SAFE-DISTANCE DRIVE-IN CONCERT SERIES, RUBICON GOES RETRO (Rubicon Theatre at Ventura Fairgrounds)
RUBICON GOES RETRO! Safe-Distance Drive-In Series Kicks Off Drive-In Hits The first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company’s Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Concert Series is here! The swell series of live 75-minute concerts at the Ventura County Fairgrounds will have you viewers watching safely from the comfort of your cars. The concerts feature multimedia, lights,…
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TV Preview: GLOBAL GOAL: UNITE FOR OUR FUTURE — THE CONCERT (NBC)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) & special guest J’Nai Bridges join Gustavo Dudamel in Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Concert NBC, Saturday, June 27, 2020, 8PM International advocacy organization Global Citizen and the European Commission are partnering on Global Goal: Unite for Our Future’”The Concert, a globally televised and digitally…
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L.A. Extras: GRAND PARK + THE MUSIC CENTER’S 4TH OF JULY BLOCK PARTY: HOME EDITION
THE PARTY CONTINUES Grand Park + The Music Center’s 4th of July Block Party Annual Event Will Televise Live on July 4, 2020 ABC7 (7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.) and LA 36 and The Music Center (8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.) Grand Park + The Music Center’s 4th of July Block Party: Home Edition Highlights: KABC-TV Broadcast Hosts Members of the…
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Events Preview: CAP UCLA’S 20-21 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT (UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance)
UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance Reimagines a 2020–21 Season for COVID-19 Realities CAP UCLA Develops New Commissions and Opportunities to Support Artists Facing Uncertainty and Instability ____________________________________________________ UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), a leading West Coast presenter dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines,…
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Theater Preview: THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR (Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
THIS BOY WILL STREAM ON AIR Beginning July 6, 2020, San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre will be streaming the archival recording of their original hit production, The Boy Who Danced on Air, a soaring and heart-rending tale of two rural Afghan boys falling in love against the backdrop of a shattered country. The show moved to…
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Virtual Theater Preview: 3 WAY LOVVE (Hollywood Fringe)
LOVVE CONNECTION 3 Way Lovve is a modernized Shakespearean love tragedy with its lead character, Willie Kenwood aka Lovvespear, a talented street painter who is discovered by an art tycoon, Guy Kenwood, who adopts him in his late teens, molds him into a famous graphic artist and uses him as his secret paramour. Throughout his…
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Music Preview: DAVID RYAN HARRIS WITH FULL BAND (Streaming Live From the Hotel Café)
DAVID RYAN HARRIS WITH FULL BAND WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 AT 6PM PST With Covid-19 shuttering doors and disconnecting us from our friends and family, deep racial injustices finally and rightfully being brought to the forefront, and the world taking to the streets in protest for equality, the past several months have been enormously significant and…
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Theater Preview: BEETHOVEN — LIVE FROM FLORENCE (Hershey Felder)
BEETHOVEN TO APPEAR LIVE IN YOUR HOME Dramatizing Dr. Gerhard von Breuning’s factual memoir, Aus dem Schwarzspanierhaus (Out of the House of Black-Robed Spaniards, Beethoven’s last residence), Hershey Felder brought Ludwig van Beethoven to life on stage through the eyes of the Viennese Doctor Breuning who spent his boyhood by the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of…
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Theater Preview: DEAR ONE: LOVE & LONGING IN MID-CENTURY QUEER AMERICA (ONE Archives Foundation)
ONE TO CATCH Between 1953 and 1965, ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States, received thousands of letters monthly from its readers. a great many of them isolated and in search of community. Now, playwright Josh Irving Gershick has compiled the voices of more than 40 distinct, mid-century Queer…
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Dance Preview: EBB & FLOW: CHINATOWN FESTIVAL (Heidi Duckler Dance at the Los Angeles State Historic Park)
GO TO FLOW L.A.-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) presents the fourth Ebb & Flow Festival, taking place at the Los Angeles State Historic Park for the second time, from June 27 – 30, 2020. Unlike past festivals which typically involve live performances and workshops, augmented reality is used this year to create a…
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Film Preview: FIRST PHYSICAL MOVIE THEATER OPENS IN LOS ANGELES (Arena Cinelounge on Sunset)
FIRST THEATER RE-OPENS IN LOS ANGELES TODAY Arena Cinelounge Sunset, Hollywood’s location for arthouse, genre, and independent cinema, will be the first physical movie theater in Los Angeles to re-open today, Friday, June 19, 2020 with special engagements of the classic and highly, highly recommended The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Babyteeth starring Ben Mendelsohn….
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Theater Preview: FREE STREAMS OF SIX PLAYS BY BLACK WRITERS (Los Angeles Theatre Works)
FREE STREAMS OF SIX PLAYS BY BLACK WRITERS L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection of work to stream free on its website. The six plays, including A Huey P. Newton Story, written, directed and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith; Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonne Elder…
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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…

















