Laluzapalooza - Art Review
A review by Rachel Flanagan. La Luz De Jesus Gallery presents Laluzapalooza, their 30 th annual group exhibition. A jury sorted through thousands of submissions from local artists to commercial artists to find some of the hottest most impressive ...
Lindsey Way and Jessicka Addams - Art Review
A review by Rachel Flanagan Walking into Soap Plant, WACKO, and La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Feliz is like walking into one of the happiest places on earth for pop connoisseurs. The store alone has millions of items from books to toys, stuffed ...
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COLCOA - Film Festival Apr 18-25
... named Kalanka for provincial rubes who've never seen a black man before. Impressed with Padilla's agility, George Footit partners up with him and they develop a clown act that catapults them to fame and fortune - more or less, since Footit, the white ...
Neva - Hollywood Fringe Review
A review by Suzanne Birrell. Neva is a powerful play. The story takes place at a rehearsal of Chekov but most of the actors and the director have not shown up. It is feared they have died in the violence of an ensuing revolution. One does not need to ...
Odilia- Hollywood Fringe Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne Birrell. Take a journey to the middle ground where dreams are woven and nightmares are felt. Odilia is almost like a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in that Odilia meets the ghosts that know of her past, however Odilia is no ...
Cowboy Mouth - Hollywood Fringe Review
A review by Rachel Flanagan. During their volatile yet romantic love affair in the early 1970's, singer-songwriter Patti Smith and Obie award-winning playwright Sam Shepard wrote Cowboy Mouth. Over two nights, probably holed up in his hotel room at ...
Simon Coronel - Hollywood Fringe Review
A review by Rachel Flanagan. When someone demonstrates an extraordinary ability in a certain field that the United States may think will benefit the country, they will grant a priority visa to an immigrant with an alien classification known as the ...
From The Editor
... city of Los Angeles, it's the round "tower" that identifies the place like no other monument. Former Capitol executive Scott Martin gives us a tour. Not long ago I opened my mail and found an article written by 96-year-old Morris Schulatsky one of our ...
29th Annual Ovation Awards Winners
... who won Best Production of a Play (Intimate Theatre), and Best Playwright for an Original Play, for Cry It Out [ read our review here ], Celebration Theatre who won Best Production of a Musical (Intimate Theatre) for Priscilla Queen of the Desert; ...
Moving Hollywood Forward
Hollywood is in my heart, but unlike many, it was never in my dreams as a wondrous star-filled utopia whose reality is a disappointment. In the 40 years I’ve been part of this community, Hollywood has always been fascinating and ever-changing. Today ...
CHICAGO - The Pantages Hollywood - Amanda Callas Review
Reviewed by Amanda Callas Chicago is a slinky, sensual, genderqueer, minimal production of the smash hit 1975 classic musical at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The mood of the show is sexy, Brechtian, and cynical. Chicago darkly satirizes the ...
The Super Variety Match Bonus Round! - Theatre Review
There are times when a piece of art so perfectly captures the national zeitgeist that it's hard to imagine it having nearly as strong an impact at any other point in time. Unfortunately, Rogue Machine's production of Deb Hiett's The Super Variety ...
I Only Have Eyes For You - Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne Birrell. Corky Hale, singer and instrumentalist, has brought a labor of love the to the Montalbon Theatre. Presenting I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU - The Life and Lyrics of Al Dubin, this new musical features lyrics by Al Dubin, music ...
Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea - Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne Birrell Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea written by Nathan Alan Davis is a masterful story presented in a style which embraces all cultures. The theme is universal - to connect with our ancestors. It is the story of a dream and the ...
Citizen: An American Lyric Theatre Review
A review by Suzanne Birrell. Citizen: An American Lyric now showing at the Fountain Theatre is a provocative symphony of language. Moments, words, thoughts, questions are played by a talented ensemble of actors who seamlessly and figuratively dance ...
LITTLE THEATRE by Justin Tanner
Reviewed by Nyla Arslanian It didn't take very long for the nostalgia to set in as Justin Tanner's Little Theatre unfolded. A superb ensemble performance based on the playwright's Los Angeles live theatre career. Jenny O'Hara delivers a performance ...
The Accountant - Film Review
Film Review by Joan Aplerin. (L-r) RON PRATHER as Frank Rice, SUSAN WILLIAMS as Dolores Rice and BEN AFFLECK as Christian Wolff in Warner Bros. Pictures' "THE ACCOUNTANT," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Chuck Zlotnick I have one word for ...
WALKING IN SPACE - World Premiere at Theatre West
Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck Theatre West presents an intriguing truth of addiction and its effects in the World Premiere of Walking in Space by Garry Michael Kluger. Through resourceful true story of a single-family home where the mother Francine ...
HFF - THE QUEEN OF BITCOIN: THE RISE AND FALL
Reviewed by Amanda Callas The Queen of Bitcoin: The Rise and Fall is a hilarious, total treasure of a show in the Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, part of the glorious Hollywood Fringe Festival. The one woman show by Margaux Avedisian shines ...
VENUS IN FUR - McCadden Place Theatre
Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck A funny and exciting play, Venus In Fur by David Ives, set in New York City, begins with the meeting of an actress and director at a theatre audition. The dark comedy is sexy, erotic, clever and full of surprises. This ...
SOMETHING LIKE...MUSICAL, PRESENTS BEETLEJUICE - Jaxx Theatre
Review by Chris Cassone Starring Kelsey Harper & Her Finger Puppets - October 26, 2023 Finger puppets? Really? Yes, really. Very much so, really! Kelsey Harper brought her forty finger puppets, her clever sense of timing, her exceptional voice, ...
TINY LITTLE TOWN: A NEW MUSICAL - Broadwater Theatre
A Theatre Movement Bazaar Production Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck An exuberant, joyously unrestrained, and enthusiastic musical comedy TINY LITTLE TOWN by Theatre Movement Bazaar at Broadwater Theater is enchantingly entertaining with high energy from ...