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  • Theater Preview: THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL (Online Reading by Fountain Theatre’s Original Cast)

    By Tony Frankel | August 12, 2020
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    ORIGINAL CAST OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL REUNITES FOR ONLINE READING ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF TILL’S MURDER   The original director and cast of the Fountain Theatre’s 2010 brilliant, moving production of The Ballad of Emmett Till  by  Ifa Bayeza  will reunite for a live-streamed reading of the play on  Friday,  Aug. 28, which marks the 65th anniversary of Till’s…

  • Theater Preview: LATINO THEATER COMPANY (Fall 2020 Virtual Season)

    By Nia Liat | August 12, 2020
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    LATINO THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES FALL 2020 SEASON Beginning Tuesday August 18, 2020, and over the next five months, L.A.’s Latino Theater Company will offer virtual programming, which includes: streaming archival footage  of past, fully-staged hit productions live  online conversations with company members; live streamed, “sneak-peek” readings  of plays set for on-stage production in 2021 (or whenever theater is…

  • Theater Preview: LOVE, NOí‹L: THE SONGS AND LETTERS OF NOí‹L COWARD (Irish Rep, filmed at The Players)

    By Tony Frankel | August 11, 2020
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    LOVE, NOí‹L: THE SONGS AND LETTERS OF NOí‹L COWARD A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Written and Devised by  Barry Day Directed by  Charlotte Moore Filmed at  The Players Starring  Steve Ross  and  KT Sullivan August 11 – 15, 2020 Noël Coward would have loved that his name appears twice in  Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward, which will be shown…

  • Theater Preview: LIVE STREAMING EVENTS (SF Playhouse)

    By Stacy Trevenon | August 9, 2020
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    SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES AUGUST LIVE STREAMING EVENTS San Francisco Playhouse is offering  five new episodes of its live streaming calendar, including three Zoomlet Live Play Readings and two Fireside Chats. The events will be streamed free of charge on the Company’s website. Announcements of additional episodes and programming will be made over the coming weeks….

  • Theater Preview: EASTLAND: AN ORIGINAL MUSICAL (Lookingglass Theatre Virtual Watch Party on August 20)

    By Tony Frankel | August 7, 2020
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    LITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL; THE BRILLIANT LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE PRODUCTION STREAMS ONE NIGHT ONLY FOR FREE In 2012, Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company presented the hit, Eastland: An Original Musical, a stunning meditation on one of the most terrible disasters in Chicago history: On the morning of July 25, 1915, an excursion boat overloaded with…

  • Music Preview VIRTUAL HAPPY HOURS (Salastina Music Society)

    By Tony Frankel | August 6, 2020
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    SALASTINA’S VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR SERIES CONTINUES Upcoming Programs: August 11: Fabio Bidini, piano August 18: Vid Guerrerio, Librettist August 25: Kinan Azmeh, clarinet September 1: Caroline Shaw, composer Since April 7, the terrific chamber ensemble  Salastina began a Tuesday evening virtual Happy Hour series, which began on April 7, welcoming artists from across the globe and…

  • Music Preview: FALL SERIES (Pasadena Symphony)

    By Jim Allen | August 5, 2020
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    PASADENA SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES PASADENA PRESENTS, A NEW PERFORMANCE SERIES TO LAUNCH THIS FALL The Pasadena Symphony  announces the launch of a phased return to concerts with Pasadena Presents, a series of four performances running  October 17 – November 14, 2020. This new, intimate concert experience will feature guest artists and musicians from the orchestra in a socially…

  • Theater Preview: L.A. LAW REUNION (Stars in the House)

    By Tony Frankel | August 4, 2020
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    LAWFUL ENTRY Tonight, the cast of LA Law will join hosts Seth Rudetsky  and  James Wesley  on Stars in the House LIVE at 8pm ET on the Stars in the House YouTube channel. Former staffers of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, including  Corbin Bernsen  (Arnie Becker),  Susan Dey  (Grace van Owen),  Jill Eikenberry  (Ann Kelsey),  Michele Greene  (Abby Perkins),  Harry Hamlin  (Michael Kuzak),  Alan Rachins  (Douglas Brackman, Jr.),  Jimmy Smits  (Victor Sifuentes),  Michael…

  • Theater Preview: THE VIRAL MONOLOGUES (The 24 Hour Plays)

    By Tony Frankel | August 4, 2020
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    WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Tonight through August 8, the extraordinary 2020 company members of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals  will begin their weeklong intensive with their very own edition of the Viral Monologues, available at 24 Hour Plays. Together, the young artists chosen for this rigorous professional experience will write, rehearse, perform and produce…

  • Theater Preview: THE JACKSONIAN (The New Group Off Stage)

    By Dmitry Zvonkov | August 4, 2020
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    ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS OF THE JACKSONIAN UNITE FOR WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING The New Group will present as part of its Reunion Reading Series Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian. featuring original cast members Juliet Brett, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, and Bill Pullman, with Jane Krakowski in the role originally played by Glenne Headly. The event, which will…

  • Song Review: “SHINE/INSTRUMENT OF HOPE”

    By Gregory Bernard | August 3, 2020
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    SHINE ON Broadway Records has released of a new version of “Shine,” the anthem written by  Sawyer Garrity & Andrea Peí±a, student survivors of the Parkland tragedy, when on February 14, 2018, a 19-year-old gunman walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and opened fire, killing 17 students and faculty members. The piano…

  • Museum Preview: FAITHLESS ELECTORS AND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE (Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Zoom)

    By Nia Liat | August 1, 2020
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    CAUSE YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH Do members of the Electoral College have the right to be “faithless” and vote against the popular vote of the state they represent? In 2016 there were 10 such cases of “faithless electors” during the contentious and controversial election of Donald Trump. With the 2020 election just months away, the…

  • Theater Feature: MARSHSTREAM INTERNATIONAL SOLO FEST (The Marsh online)

    By Tony Frankel | July 31, 2020
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    MARSH’S ONLINE SOLO FEST LOOKS FOR PERFORMERS From Ann Randolph’s Loveland in 2010 to Dan Hoyle’s Border People last year, The Marsh has presented some of the greatest solo shows I have ever seen — with some of the freshest perspectives on stage. San Francisco Bay Area’s “breeding ground for new performance,” which operated theaters…

  • Theater Review: THEATER IN QUARANTINE (The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy and more)

    By Tony Frankel | July 30, 2020
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    VOYAGE IN A CLOSET Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a small space successfully. Now,  Theater in Quarantine  debuts its most technically ambitious production,  The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy,  tonight live at 7pm and 9pm EDT. This slapstick science-fiction adventure adapted from…

  • Theater Feature: THE HOMEBOUND PROJECT (Fifth Edition)

    By Eve Meadows | July 30, 2020
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    DON’T MISS HOMEBOUND’S FINAL INSTALLMENT Since May 6, 2020, an amazing array of talent and celebrities have participated with  The Homebound Project, new online theater benefiting hungry children affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the lineup for its fifth and final edition, airing August 5–9, 2020. The playwrights have been given the prompt of “Homemade.”…

  • Concert Feature: CHEYENNE JACKSON (The Seth Concert Series)

    By Tony Frankel | July 30, 2020
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    SHOPTALK & SONGS WITH CHEYENNE & SETH AUGUST 3 & 4, 2020 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Cheyenne Jackson is easily one of the most winning performers around. There are Broadway stars who simply cannot perform in concert without coming off as a cardboard cutout. Handsome, self-effacing, loquacious, and convivially humble,…

  • Theater Feature: WEST ADAMS (Skylight Theatre)

    By Nia Liat | July 29, 2020
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    GO WEST Playing for one performance only tomorrow, July 30, 2020, at 3pm PST, is Skylight presents their smash hit play West Adams, a story about the absurdity of racism. After the archival recording as it was performed before an audience at Skylight Theatre, join a guest panel — which will include the writer, director,…

  • Theater Review: MARGIN OF ERROR (The Roustabouts)

    By Milo Shapiro | July 29, 2020
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    CATCH THE VIRTUAL WORLD PREMIERE OF MARGIN OF ERROR As with many companies, San Diego’s The Roustabouts have had to restructure due to COVID-19. Now, they are presenting productions and readings in the virtual world. This week, they begin with their archival recording of the 2017 play, Will Cooper’s Margin of Error, a fast-moving drama…

  • Auction Preview: ICONIC HORROR & SCI-FI PROPS (Prop Store)

    By Jim Allen | July 28, 2020
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    ICONIC HORROR & SCI-FI PROPS TO BE SOLD AS PART OF HOLLYWOOD AUCTION AUGUST 26 and 27, 2020 Anthony Hopkins “Hannibal Lecter” Costume, Alien Queen Model Miniature, Gremlins, plus more classic horror film memorabilia to go under the hammer in upcoming Los Angeles auction. Over 850 rare and iconic lots will be sold during Prop…

  • Theater Preview: OF DICE AND MEN (Otherworld Theatre)

    By John Todd | July 27, 2020
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    GO TO THE OTHERWORLD Chicago’s premier Science Fiction and Fantasy theatre proudly presents Of Dice And Men – A Play about Dungeons and Dragons! This virtual production is a remount of Otherworld’s first full length production from the spring of 2014, and it has been specifically designed for Otherworld’s digital platform. It will premiere on…

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