Stars of the hit TV series The Big Bang Theory have just opened on and Off-Broadway in new plays. While both showcase the talents of the individual actors, the productions themselves give off less than a huge explosion. Jim Parsons, four-time Emmy winner as the brilliant but bedeviling physicist Sheldon Cooper, stars as the All-Mighty …
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On June 3-7, 2015, the 9th Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival will be held at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. For full line up and ticket info, go to the LAGFF website. We caught up with one of the producers of the opening and closing night events, Aspasia Koumli, and got to know her …
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Tanya Ko-Hong (Tanya Hyonhye Ko) received her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in journals such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Two Hawks Quarterly, Rattle, Writers at Work, and the Paris Press Blog. She is the author of the poetry collection Generation One Point Five. Her next book, Comfort Woman, a collection of …
Like the invention of ‘the homosexual’ in the nineteenth century that Michel Foucault, David Halperin and others write about, the discursive production of an individual (‘racist’) shifts the focus from the act to the identity of the author. It is not so much a question of what one has done but an essence, an immutable …
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Fine Art Body Painting Today Although questionably not for museums (Or maybe it will be?), it is apparent that Fine Art Body Painting has come into its own as was seen on Saturday night, May 16, at The Springs, a New Age restaurant, bar and tranquility center in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. It has …
Arousing all senses. This may be the choice three-word assessment of the stunning Deaf West Theatre production of Spring Awakening that made the leap from a long run at Inner City Arts to the larger Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills. Whatever the terms of this arrangement, one can only celebrate the fact that it happened …
A dancer’s process for warming up is labor intensive. The body requires precise care, with limbs and torso, hands and feet all needing specific attention and specific stretches and movement so that it can ready itself for the task ahead. And after years of grueling workouts and adrenaline filled performances when a dancer’s body succeeds …
In Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening at The Wallis, you can understand the actors who sign the songs better than the actors singing. That’s because the sound design is haphazard, and the audio mix, on the night I attended, was uneven, not responsive to the ebb and flow of voice in relation to …
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