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American French Film Festival"the largest French film festival in North America"recently concluded with the US premier of a lavish and visually stunning screen version of Alexandre Dumas' cl…
Looking for some family fun this holidays? At the Santa Monica Playhouse the Family Theatre Musical Matinee series presents the return of All About Santa, a heart-warming tale of love and ge…
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…
Adolescence, passion, tragedy"the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet is brimming with all the elements of youthful exuberance and defiance. Rising stars Amina Edris and Duke Kim gloriously inh…
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is excited to introduce two new exhibitions: "Color in Motion," an immersive journey into the transformative power of color in film, curated by Jessica …
The BLOCtober free, outdoor Halloween movies continue at Alamo Drafthouse DTLA, located at 700 W. 7th Street Ste. U240 Los Angeles, CA 90017 213-217-9027
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Although new plays can be exciting and are crucial to the continuing vitality of theatre, I'm especially fond of older works, the more obscure the better. It's cheap time travel, immersing o…
Childlike in his innocence, but grotesque in form, mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty w…
Message plays are a pillar of western theater. Our entire theatrical ecosystem is unthinkable without works such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House or Larry Krame…
Rock legend Stevie Nicks performed a powerful new song last night that wowed the live audience and brought the house down. The October 12th show, the third in Saturday Night Live's 50th seas…
Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera in three acts, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. First performed in 1904, in this ill-fated love story we me…
The 2024-25 Season at The Soraya in Northridge is brimming with classical events, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Emanuel Ax, the Israel Philharmonic, LA's own Colburn …
Drácula, the 1931 Spanish-language film, is a notable adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel. It was produced by Universal Pictures and released concurrently with the more famous Engli…
Regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music, Eric Clapton will perform with Jimmie Vaughan at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 7:30 …
TAIKOPROJECTÂ was founded in 2000 in Los Angeles, California by a group of young, emerging taiko drummers led by Bryan Yamami and Masato Baba. The group continues to define a modern Americ…
This Hallowe'en you can experience the very first (unauthorized) film adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic tale Dracula " complete with live organ accompaniment " of F. W. Murnau's chi…
Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in 135 movies and on numerous TV shows, including series regular roles on The Goldbergs, The Loud House, Archer, One Day at a Time (the reboot), Sili…
AFI Fest presented by Canva is happening in Hollywood, at the classic TCL Chinese Theatre, from October 23-27, 2024.
Pictured above: Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Maria. Cr. Pablo Lar…
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!
This portentous line is uttered by one of the three weird sisters in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Coming to L.A. this October…
Thirty years ago, a group of gifted young pianists with a bent towards new music, gathered together to lick stamps. Led by the late pianist, scholar and Schoenberg associate Leonard Stein, t…
The team of researchers and art experts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles have collaborated with officials in Türkiye to arrange the return of this valuable and historical object " rare ar…
The Spanish word ¡Pasaje! translates as 'passage' or 'crossing.'  It can also mean "fare", "ticket", "airfare", and even "scripture", "extract", "text", or "paragraph" in English.
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In my twenty-five years of theater reviewing, time and again when I find myself less enthusiastic about a show, ninety-nine percent of the time the culprit is the writing. One would think th…
Thornton Wilder's 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It's eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaki…
Los Angeles Opera kicks off their 2024-25 season with Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly, starring Karah Son and Jonathan Tetelman, led by conductor James Conlon.
Performances will run Se…