Pandemic social media impacts considered in El Sereno, al fresco dance fest in San Pedro, Mexican folkloric in Hollywood, contemporary masters in Pasadena, female perspectives in West Hollywood, more SoCal dance this week and a peek at next week. Live This Week Taking it to the hills A quartet of significant SoCal contemporary dance companies, …
The Go-Gos dance into a Pasadena theater, contemporary dance in Beverly Hills, experimental works downtown and Boyle Heights, a New York visitor in Irvine, still-the-season dance in East LA and Jefferson Park, opera dance downtown–all live performance. Plus livestreams, new dance films, museum exhibits that dance, and more SoCal dance this week (and peek at …
Folkloric Día de los Muertos in East LA, contemporary debut in Beverly Hills, dance-drenched fest in Culver City, new dance in Boyle Heights, Samba in Northridge, dance theater in Irvine, opera dances at the Music Center, all live! Plus new dance films, dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. 1990’s whimsy Whether choreographing on …
Live dance on an Arts District rooftop, folkloric for Día de los Muertos at Grand Park, illuminated umbrellas at the Music Center, the 19th amendment celebrated in Culver City, last week for a Disney Hall festival, plus museum dance in Leimert Park and Westwood, new dance films, dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week with a …
Portable opera dances in a shipping container, a festival of threes opens in San Pedro, salsa spices up downtown, all live! A dance film fest continues in Hollywood, SoCal dance online at the Music Center, Brazilian dance in Grand Park, online classes, and more SoCal dance this week. Live This Week Birds out of the box …
A festival of threes opens in San Pedro, collaborative dance and film in Long Beach, flamenco in Silverlake, Filipino dance and hip hop in Hollywood, and Motown fuels the dance downtown, all live! A dance film fest opens in Hollywood, Brazilian dance after dark, online encores, and more SoCal dance this week. Live This Week Tri-Arts …
Local dance transports Brazilian lit and Motown music to Beverly Hills, hillside operatic dance in Hollywood, street dance meets contemporary in Little Tokyo, Cumbia goes centerstage downtown, flamenco reopens an Alhambra stage, and sneaker sculpture dances continue in Hollywood, all live! Online there’s new summer dance films, addressing historical racism, drawing inspiration from veterans’ letters, …
The Long Beach Opera did it again! The production of Les Enfants Terribles at the rooftop parking of the new 2ND & PCH Shopping Mall follows a long list of avant-garde creations by this cultural institution. It includes, among many others, productions such as Orpheus & Euridice (at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool), The Diary of …
San Francisco Opera just opened a handsome new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and it’s an energetic take on Mozart’s classic 1786 comedy. The story is both simple and incredibly convoluted. Figaro, (Michael Sumuel), a footman in the household of Count Almaviva (Levente Molnar), wants to marry the beautiful servant girl Susanna (Jeanine De …
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A few weeks ago, as a journalist of the Hollywood Foreign Press, I interviewed Danny DeVito about his role as circus owner Max Medici in Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton, a reimagined live action version of the beloved 1941 Disney animated movie about a flying baby elephant. DeVito had worked with the director before, he …
The grand passion of opera and the minimalist esthetics of Tony-winning director John Doyle blend perfectly in Classic Stage Company’s intimate revival of the rarely-performed Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein II’s adaptation of Bizet’s classic. This is the first full New York staging of the hybrid piece since its Broadway premiere in 1943 (there were London …
New York City Opera closes its 2016-17 season with the bold choice of Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos’ adaptation of Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s two-part epic on the impact of AIDS. Librettist Mari Mezei compresses the seven-hour original into a brisk two-and-a-half hour, single-evening event. Much of Kushner’s complex musings on a myriad of topics …
[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Opera and theater merge and meld in two offerings at this summer’s Glimmerglass Music Festival in Cooperstown, NY. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 Broadway bloodbath Sweeney Todd receives a confused staging while Robert Ward’s 1961 operatic adaptation …
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Pietro Mascagni’s rarely performed 1898 opera Iris receives a magnificent production at Bard College’s annual Summerscape Festival, revealing a hidden treasure overshadowed by the composer’s politics and the similar Madama Butterfly by Mascagni’s friend and one-time roommate, Giacomo Puccini. Both works share a librettist, take place in Japan, a location of exotic fascination in the …
How could one fully prepare for the mobile opera Hopscotch, which features 24 limousines traversing Los Angeles, carrying 120 performers who share their rides with an intimate audience? Who could imagine how they would experience a show of such scope – with cars stopping at rooftops, parks and historic buildings? What would it be like to …
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