Hot new playwright Lucas Hnath takes a great risk by naming his latest play The Thin Place. Its plot and premise could be taken as gossamer light and critics could easily take cheap shots employing the skinny title as emblematic of the work itself. But this haunting ghost story—pardon the pun—contains an unsettling power, enhanced …
Finding the time and space to create art in the midst of your busy life can be a challenge. That’s why one of the best ways to invest in yourself as an artist is to create a space in your home just for making art. With a special space to retreat to, you can step …
This short documentary tries to connect dots between three disparate experiences that happened in a single day, 12/12/2019. The dots are a brainstorming session with old friends, a visit to a new working environment in Hollywood, the discovery of an art studio by the Los Angeles River dedicated to environmental art, and three piano performers, …
N Sumner & Interstate Under the swing set in our backyard there were two puddles. One we used to muddy our hands, the other to clean them. Our hair hung towards the ground, knees hooked over the monkey bars. We swept rain from the driveway, during the rain, so we could keep playing basketball. Miss …
Last chance for soaring swans in knickers, first chance for four days of dance films, and some basement dancing, three events launching SoCal dance in 2020. 3. Noises heard under the stairs After successfully graduating in film and media studies, but not so much with her minor in writing, Alea Olivas traveled about the West …
He is an energetic, a rare breed of the Zimbabwean revolution, an ideologue, whose tongue-lashing and verbal acid spewing lips, rude honesty and raw revolutionary anger does not stop in front of any sacred cow, a multi-talented cadre whose creativity and wit is shaped by the gun, ideology and the pen. His candid verbosity and …
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An abundance of exciting new faces has graced movies in 2019. Here’s some of the young actors and actresses who made an impression with their excellent performances. Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein play BFFs (Best Friends Forever) in Booksmart directed by Olivia Wilde. Dever, 23, born in Phoenix, Arizona, had acted in Short Term 12 (2013) …
Ram Dass 1931-2019 Ram Dass was a New Age guru who, in the late 1960s. with Timothy Leary, emerged as a proponent of the psychedelic experience. He died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on December 22. For more than fifty years, he was an active presence in my life as well as the life …
Family Systems for Richard Three weeks after his bullseye shot, his cellphone kept dialing – long, blank messages, I could almost hear the engine of his breath. He should’ve been the world’s youngest maestro but spent his years hiding in the valves of a westside trumpet, blowing sparks but no music, a part he couldn’t …
Crushing economic forces devastate two communities in a pair of Off-Broadway productions. How the characters deal with these financial blows vary as does the level of credibility and connection. Samuel D. Hunter continues to document the disenfranchised of his home state Idaho in Greater Clements at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, while some of …
Setting, scene and situation If most Cartier-Bresson’s photographs bear the unmistakable signature of what he coined as being the “decisive moment” it is because of his ability to be at the right vantage point, at the right time, to frame the decisive moment of a situation … under the right light! Such was my situation …
Local dance provides a world tour as swans swarm at opposite ends of the Music Center, a cluster of Irish Christmas shows sprout, and Nutcracker season peaks throughout SoCal this week. 4. The Celts are coming!! The Celtic Knight Dancers join the singers of Celtic Angels and musicians of Trinity Band Ensemble of Dublin in the family friendly …
Kwanzaa celebrated in Crenshaw, spiteful swans soar to Tchaikovsky downtown, a final Nutcracker cracking Tchaikovsky in Redondo Beach and Viennese waltz in the New Year in Costa Mesa and Hollywood in this week’s SoCal dance. 4. Last Nutcracker standing Set in 1912, the Los Angeles Ballet’s “Nutcracker” is an L.A. original, choreographed by company co-artistic directors Thordal Christensen …
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