Las Garcia - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

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By Harrison Held "Las Garcia" is a captivating one woman show that is definitely worth seeing. The exciting, entertaining and intriguing production was written by and stars the talented, energetic and charismatic Gabriela Ortega who recently ...

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The Lost Child - Theatre Review

Posted By Annette Semerdjian

By Annette Semerdjian Skylight Theatre creates yet another compelling, topical and one-of-a-kind production with its latest play, "The Lost Child." The story follows a wife and husband who have been torn apart by the disappearance of their ...

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Out & About with Susan Hornik - July

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By Susan Hornik Movers and Shakers If you were a fan of Will Farrell's Anchorman you might remember a hilarious scene with the comedian playing a flute. The man who, behind the scenes, so deftly played that instrument was really Katisse Buckingham, ...

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The Conway Curve - Film Review

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By Bill Garry The Conway Curve, an ambitious new indie from a Texas-based team, provides both the pleasures and the pitfalls of an independent film. Led by director, producer, and co-writer Marian Yeager, the film goes the way a lot of independent ...

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Savion Glover - Dance Review

Posted By Joan Alperin

By Joan Alperin After going through a 70 million dollar renovation, the Ford Amphitheatre, which originally was built in 1920, reopened with an incredible show. The amazing Savion Glover tapped to the sounds of Dance Candy, a super tight jazz group, ...

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The Devil's Wife - Skylight Theatre

Posted By Joshua Kahn

By Joshua Kahn The Skylight Theatre presents another world premiere with Tom Jacobson's The Devil's Wife, a pulpy, comedic melodrama, heavily steeped in the world of 19th Century moralistic fables. Its roots as a European folktale become immediately ...

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Any Night - Theatre Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan Is it a sleepwalker's nightmare or a sweet love story? Any Night at Sacred Fools Theater will have you hooked on finding out. Anna (Marie Fahlgren) is an attractive young woman looking for a new place to start over. Thanks to a ...

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Odd Brodsky - Film Review

Posted By Bill Garry

By Bill Garry Odd Brodsky, an independent comedy from writer-director Cindy Baer (working with co-writer Matthew Irving), is a little movie overstuffed with big-hearted sitcom laughs. It's about quirky Audrey "Aud" Brodsky and a group of equally ...

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Spider-Man: Homecoming - Film Review

Posted By Joan Alperin

By Joan Alperin First off, I must say that British actor Tom Holland is my favorite Spider-Man ever and this reboot, directed by Jon Watts, is my favorite film in this Marvel franchise. What makes this film work so well, is that it's your basic ...

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From the Editor

Posted By Nyla Arslanian

Summertime and the livin' is easy. That may be true for the true South, but it's also vacation time and there's always an influx of visitors that our summer travel plans don't match. Rachel Flanagan's article about the Hollywood Sign points out what ...

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Apathy Killed the Cat - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan Apathy Killed the Cat is a one-act play written and directed by Ryan Lisman and premiering at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The play centers around an unstable playwright named Colin (Aaron Stall). Colin is slowly losing his ...

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Out & About with Susan Hornik 6/26/17

Posted By Susan Hornik

By Susan Hornik For Mummy Day, Tom Cruise was at the Hollywood & Highland complex as they unveiled a big mummy for Universal's The Mummy movie. "I just remember growing up and seeing them on Friday and Saturday night when I was a little kid and ...

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The Amitycode - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Harrison Held

By Harrison Held Photo by Nick Cimiluca I had a terrific time at the Hollywood Fringe Festival last night watching the 10 pm performance of the must see play The Amitycode written by and starring the talented Devin Crittenden at the intimate ...

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1001 Minutes of New Musicals - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Bill Garry

By Bill Garry I think of the Hollywood Fringe Festival as creative anarchy -- independent writers, composers, actors and producers put on hundreds of shows with just as many goals in mind. Some want to be discovered, some want to hone their craft, ...

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The Interference - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Erin Fair

By Erin Fair It is a tale as old as time, but The Interference is no fairytale; it's a story of sexual violation. Before the play begins, the audience walks in and the stage is littered with a cast of thirteen front and center. They sit very still ...

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Tough Brown Leather - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Erin Fair

By Erin Fair Two chairs adorn the minimalist stage, framing the performer and a projector shining on a white screen. The lights in the theater go down and the screen displays a singular image of four black girls holding hands and partaking in a ...

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Dogfight - Theatre Review

Posted By Joshua Kahn

By Joshua Kahn The talented young ensemble of After Hours Theatre Company attempts their biggest production yet with the spirited staging of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Dogfight at the Hudson Theatre. The musical, based on the 1991 film of the same ...

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Book of Mormon - Theatre Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan What do you get when you mix the writers of an animated series that follows cartoon children on foul-mouthed adventures with a Broadway musical comedy about two mismatched Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda to spread the word of ...

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Species Native to California - Theatre Review

Posted By Annette Semerdjian

By Annette Semerdjian "Species Native to California " is a tale about the significance of land, especially in the age of current political turmoil. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" and the Mexican folk tale of La Llorona, Dorothy ...

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Lucky Stiff - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

By Bill Garry There's something really wholesome about seeing a show at the Actors Co-Op in Hollywood. The troupe's home is at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, which has a beautiful, pristine campus on the northern edge of Hollywood with ...

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