28 stories by "Brian Sonia-Wallace"
Lyrical, haunting, and timely, Ainadamar is a myth writ large in opera. Named for the "fountain of tears" in the town of Granada, the opera doesn't so much tell the story of Federico GarcÅ
This annual flash festival, now in its fourth year, is the most pure unadulterated fun I've had at the theater in a long time, in part because "immersive" is explicitly an invitation to play…
The next Western Arts Alliance Conference will be in Los Angeles, September 2-5, 2025. Arts reporter Brian Sonia-Wallace went down to San Diego this year to scope out the conference before i…
Pina Bausch's ballet Rite of Spring was staged at The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with performances over four nights, February 8-11, 2024.
More than thirty dancers from 13 Af…
Now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse is the new production Kate, a one-person show performed by Kate Berlant.
The name KATE looms omnipresent over the whole theatre. The sign over the …
Micky's Launches New Weekly Open MicFrom the desk of the West Hollywood City Poet Laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace.
Pictured above " The Mic @ Micky's hosts Nate Lovell, Tony Moore, and …
A spectacular opening last night at the Shrine launched the appearance of Iceland's most famous human, singer and techno-eco-feminist-utopianist Björk"presently here in the States for her v…
Promising to be Björk's most elaborate and theatrical stage concert to date, Goldenvoice presents Björk " Cornucopia over three nights in January at Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall.
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The Insider Secrets for Hello World
You will carry on to let it operate since you stop by this next report. Nothing might have assisted them longer. Yes, in the event that you should be d…
Things You Won't Like About VPN Reviews and Things You Will
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Brian Sonia-Wallace reports from the front lines in the battle to save Arts funding:
City Council meetings are notoriously boring, full of wonky policy and
A Noise Within has created a faithful, stunningly designed Man of La Mancha, a 1964 loose musical adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. The adaptation
The Johnny Cycle: Part II: The Shell is the second part of a trilogy that The Speakeasy Society is creating, based on Dalton Trumbo's 1939
Watch our AWP 2016 round-up with Brian Sonia-Wallace, reporting for ArtsBeastLA from the conference.
Go here to see Brian’s VIDEO report.
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This is a think-piece by Brian Sonia-Wallace.
How exciting! No one in the theatre knew how to feel. Half of them left at intermission. Written by
Andy’s world is just that – a world!
Quiet on plot, loud on character, this devising cast (Rook Theatre company) has created some magical realism for
"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and
It’s been six months since Pierre Huyghe, a retrospective of the French artist, closed at LACMA. But the thing about having living elements in a gallery is that their lives continue af…
Entering the Matrix Theatre to see Ded! is a treat in itself. A calavera looms over the marquis, and two more giant calavera women are holding court in the entryway in their bright dresses. …
Speakeasy Society's The Hollow has me excited to watch this company grow, and feeling tingly about the future of immersive theatre in Los Angeles. The show is a piece of dinner theatre-cum-s…
Laura Karlin, Artistic Director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, set herself a big challenge with Reeling in the wake of last year's After it Happened (reviewed here). That piece was a response t…
I stand at the mouth of the gallery. It gapes.
And still I stand. I have been hired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to announce each patron's name as they walk in.
"Susan Choi!"
"Dou…
Forever was, to quote an elderly gentleman leaving the theatre, "not my cup of tea." The latest creation of writer/actress Dael Orlandersmith, this one-woman show is a piece of straight-up s…
After it Happened is an intensely theatrical piece of transdisciplinary work by Invertigo Dance Theatre that creates a post-disaster world that manages to be disturbing, beautiful, and very,…
Brian Sonia-Wallace attended this year's 20th Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of The Oppressed Conference. Here follows his report. Every year, a group of theatre artists and educators fo…
