Contemporary ballet in East L.A.; Balinese dance in Westwood; new works and 30 troupes in Santa Monica; Mexican folkloric in Hollywood, the end of NOW, a start up showcase and high rise ballet downtown, and more SoCal dance this week. [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong …
It’s August and it’s hot. A time when typically many people vacate to halcyon destinations rare or unknown, and yet I do hope a few of you readers are lingering… As we sashay through the final heat of summer and ramp up to receive submissions for Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival Round Two 2017, …
Meet the Judges: Dare to Dance in Public Round Two! Read More »
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at The Ahmanson Theatre invites such an abundance of thoughts that it is hard to know where to begin. So the only thing to do is dive in. It is an unusual whodunit based on the best-selling first-person novel by Mark Haddon and adapted for the …
A Curious Incident, As Thoughtful As It Is Offbeat Read More »
Two exhibitions at The Getty. Photographs, Opening, July 17, 2017, The Getty. David David Hockney, is one of the pre-eminent artists of our day. Although “Pop Art” is generally considered to have been an American art movement of the 1960s, Hockney, who is British, is considered to be one of its most versatile and prolific …
Editor’s Note: Khadijah McCaskill is one of my greatest students over the last decade. She was such an advanced writer that she was the Head Editor of the School Newspaper at View Park Accelerated Charter High School as a high school sophomore. I taught her at View Park in her 11th and 12th grade years …
Bruce Norris’ A Parallelogram, now at Second Stage Theater after productions at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum, certainly has a flashy gimmick which director Michael Greif employs with just the right touch of subtle spectacle in his crisp staging. Through means of a device resembling a TV remote, the central …
Rewinding and Fast-Forwarding Life in A Parallelogram Read More »
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