I’m almost positive I saw this screened years ago at Dance Camera West, but I recently once again came upon the 2015 film Black Train is Coming and was moved anew by the music, the movement, and the total straightforwardness, polish, and lack of pretense of its dancers, ENinja and Joyntz from Turf Feinz of …
Not your usual eatery To say it all we refer to Yani’s café as the Greek’s. A blend of student and neighborhood hang-out, a blend of family cooked Mediterranean food and banter with those familiar to the place, to whom he will jokingly declare that he won’t feed them if he does not feel like …
It doesn’t take a very stable genius (to borrow a Trumpian phrase) to connect the dots between the current production of Key Largo at the Geffen and the brazen corruption at the heart of the current administration. Adapted by Andy Garcia and Jeffrey Hatcher, this Key Largo is a compelling parable for our current political …
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A formidable female returns to the Adams District, flamenco in Silverlake, Burbank and La Cañada-Flintridge, WW2 internment camps considered downtown, traditional and contemporary Kazakhstani ballet in Beverly Hills, dance from around the world in Santa Monica, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. A capital company Until March of this year, when it was renamed Nur-Sultan, …
A trio of the most iconic and sought-after male title roles in world theater are currently being tackled Off-Broadway in a variety of productions ranging from wickedly sublime to well-intentioned but wrongheaded. The Irish company DruidShakespeare sets the Bard’s Richard III in a comic abattoir while CSC offers a tepid Macbeth and The New Group …
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You Give My Heart Peace You Give My Heart Peace The way you smile makes me feel at ease And you have me believe Love is possible And You Give My Heart Peace The way your breath hits the air And forms into words Calms my anxieties And I desire to be Right there in …
In The Garden It’s been so long, hasn’t it? You and me, sitting in the familiar garden, the annuals our clock, counting down the bursts of color that mark what remains of us. The cruelty of age this land of youth insists the slowing pace that feels like creeping autumn, our future abbreviated, made for …
Stephen Nathan’s first showbiz gig was originating the role of Jesus, no less, in the debut production of Godspell in 1971. Talk about starting at the top. “It was an amazing experience and kicked off my professional life in a way I could never have imagined,” he says. He could never have imagined what followed, …
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