Two all male troupes send up the Nutcracker in West Hollywood, contemporary troupe opens a residency in Beverly Hills, a Santa Barbara visitor with an L.A. host in Pasadena, an open rehearsal in West L.A., a deadly holiday fete in West Hollywood; site specific fish dancing in Culver City, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Moon …
Hey, Harvey, what if you don’t have your lawyer try to get all your corporate emails? I’m sure some of the women who claimed you sexually assaulted them sent you ingratiating emails at one point or another. Such are the interactions and economics between Those in Power and Those They Have Power Over. Hey, Harvey’s …
How can we democratize education, eliminate unfair advantages for the haves versus the have-nots, and recognize that power is subjective? The context in which we find ourselves is connected to how much power we have, in any given room. We may not know how we are received, amongst our peers, if we never meet them …
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I had visited Eataly (Eat-Italy), the Italian marketplace in New York, seven year ago on November 4, 2010, not long after it opened on August 31st, and I was blown away. This huge collection of food shops and restaurants covered a large square city block at 200 Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street. Other locations opened …
The war of the sexes rages on various fronts in Julie Taymor’s Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and John Patrick Shanley’s self-directed new play The Portuguese Kid. Butterfly addresses gender fluidity while Kid is one of Shanley’s screaming matches with lovers driven wild by their libidos. Both offer moments of entertaining and …
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The work-in-progress of the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, designed by architect Renzo Piano, is scheduled for opening in 2019. In “Architecture + Cinema + Hollywood”, the three are connected through images of the museum’s construction at the present time, historic and contemporary examples of architecture, mementos from classic movies, metaphors of Hollywood, and segments from my previous …
[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] About three weeks ago I wrote a piece about how theatre, which often leads in this area, is responding to the political turmoil that’s engulfing our country. It took a while, but we’re pretty much there. A surprise …
I recently returned from my first time attending the San Francisco Dance Film Festival where my own screen dance work, “Ghost Story” was presented as one of the official selections. Besides being exposed to a cornucopia of wonderful films and a beautifully organized festival, one of the great highlights was meeting fellow dance filmmakers, all …
Sharon Yablon has been on the cutting edge of the Los Angeles Theater scene since 1991. Early in her writing career, she creatively took her utterly unique and mysterious worlds to the “stage” by starting Sharon’s Farm. Yablon embraced unconventional theatrical outlets, by presenting her plays in backyards, run down hotels, marijuana dispensaries, and bars …
Danny Earl Simmons currently resides in Lebanon, Oregon. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals such as The Pedestal Magazine, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, IthacaLit, and San Pedro River Review. He is the author of a poetry chapbook entitled “The Allness of Everything” (Maverick Duck Press). [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now …
As a theater buff who will travel for outstanding live theater, the Old Globe is quickly becoming (for me) a destination theater venue. This weekend, I saw their original musical production of Benny & Joon, which is based on the 1993 movie starring Johnny Depp, Aidan Quinn and Mary Stuart Masterson. I had a vague …
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Pre-breakfast encounter It’s about 6:30 a.m., still dark, when my three dogs and I exit the front door to our fenced-in front yard. My three race to the front gate and start barking at some shadowy dogs outside the gate. In a flash, chaos erupts. This is unincorporated Lakeland, Florida, a quiet, semi-rural area. I …
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