When Dear Evan Hansen first opened on Broadway in December 2016, the unassuming musical about the now iconic high schooler with his arm in a cast and a catchy score became a surprise hit. The show’s fresh-faced lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were relative unknowns. But all that has changed dramatically. Together with Steven Levenson, …
Dear Evan Hansen Offers a Poignant and Timely Musical for Our Times Read More »
“Mending,” a series of new works by contemporary fiber artist Lori Zimmerman, will open January 24 at the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. The show is curated by Perla Karney. Lori uses embroidery and mixed media to explore expressions of aging, healing and mending. Speaking about her work, Lori says, …
For once the Dems got the visuals right. There they were, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, backed by a sea of American flags. They stood before the symbols of political legitimacy, and by extension power accrued to them. Schumer was correctly placed to the left, because he’s taller (we scan visual images left-to-right, because we …
Former Choreographer/Performance Artist and now Filmmaker Mitchell Rose is perhaps currently best known for his often comedic dance films which have won 87 festival awards internationally. His films are great at making connections – spanning distance and time zones – as seen with such films as “Globe Trot” and “Exquisite Corps” – seamlessly morphing mid-movement …
Since my daughter started kindergarten last year I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about what type of school mom I was going to be. You know what I mean, once they hit school age all of a sudden, your motherhood is on display and you have to start mixing with other moms in …
You can count on the fingers of two hands the number of African-American playwrights who have had more than one financially successful play on Broadway in the past few decades (August Wilson and Lynn Nottage are among the few). Add gay and the number gets even smaller or even non-existant, indicating that black queer voices …
African-American, Gay Voices On and Off-Broadway Read More »
Noir Immersion For the most forthright Noir aficionados only (if you’re not among the most forthright, stay home) — the whole shebang, the whole enchilada, with sides, one of the giddiest and most complete films noir together with a perfect poem noir for our age. What do I mean by “complete”? Orson Welles’ Touch of …
A new flamenco series in Echo Park, considering life itself in Westwood, a live Russian resurrects a dead one’s ballet in Costa Mesa, bringing historic architecture “home” in Los Feliz, exploring Bach’s musical elements downtown, a festival continues in West L.A., and more SoCal dance this week 5. Windy City visitor Once a tap and …
California Love Poem The sun has an orgasm across the valley as Pasadena opens up in front of me, the Suicide Bridge pushing an arm out of green sleeves, orange blossoms keening after a mid-spring heatwave, the Rose Bowl yawning in a ravine. It is not enough to love the one you love, to drive …
Arminé Iknadossian’s mother would gather olives from the trees that grew just outside of her daughter’s high school; she couldn’t imagine all of that wonderful fruit going to waste. Iknadossian has not written a poem for this image she remembers all of these years later, but perhaps all of the poems in her first collection …
Book Review: All That Wasted Fruit by Arminé Iknadossian Read More »
Copyright © 2010-2023 by Next Echo Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
