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Nanette GonzalesCannibal! The Musical performed by students at Cortines High School's Theatre Arts AcademyThe first two rows of the black-box theater at Ramón C. Cortines High Scho…
Federico MataUrban Theatre Movement's "Short Eyes" now playing downtown at Los Angeles Theatre Center​Miguel Pinero's 1970s prison play Short Eyes nabs this week's Pick of the Week.â…
Tweets from @CTGLA as part of the org's "Tweet Seats" event during Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the SunThe cellular device is a wonderful technology. But that wonder is tempered eve…
Craig SchwartzCTG/Playwrights Horizons "pre-Broadway" run of "Clybourne Park" currently playing at the Mark Taper Forum​Jaws have been dropping since the New York Post broke the story…
Tony DeLap, "The Big Wave," 1989 Stainless steel, Plexiglas sculpture. Wilshire Boulevard at Franklin
It's been over 20 years since artist Tony DeLap built one of the first public art…
Tova Carlin, Ania Diakoff, and Katerina Llanes' Sub-Standard installationIf Los Angeles is a car culture, then the parking garage of the Standard Hollywood represents that beastly rea…
Paul M. RubensteinCharles L. Mee's "Agamemnon," presented by City Garage​City Garage, the Santa Monica-based experimental theater troupe now situated in Bergamot Station, is seeking a…
Irish SchneiderDavid L M McIntyre as the professor from the state university, and Helen Hunt in "Our Town" ​Speaking with a disgruntled colleague at Wednesday's opening of David Crome…
The satirical satyrs of Poor Dog Group's DyonisiaThe venerable "best bets for the new year" critic's post always carries with it the uncertain odor of the racetrack tout. Even …
Andrea Fraser in her fake guided tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989. Performance art? Yes.Are Lady Gaga and Mitt Romney performance artists? The mainstream press has said …
Courtesy Margo Leavin GalleryWilliam Leavitt's set design for "The Particles (of White Naugahyde)"
From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury…
Lloyd B. Schwartz​Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is this week's Pick of the Week. See all New Theater reviews after the jump.
​ Also check out this week's features on John Ma…
Nina Silver and Guy Birtwhistle in D is for DogFrom backstage mishaps to audience interruptions, theater is unpredictable, and no one knows that better than the actors, produce…
Courtesy El Portal Theatre"A Cinderella Christmas"​Kris Lythgoe's A Cinderella Christmas at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre is this week's Pick.​For all New Theater Reviews…
Rich Sofranko"Stations"​Boom Kat Dance Theatre's production of Stations at Santa Monica's Miles Memorial Playhouse landed this week's stage Pick; ​also recommended are the Whit…
Chelsea SuttonTroubadour Theatre Company in "A Christmas Westside Story"​ Troubadour Theatre Company snags this week's Pick of the Week, .​ with their Yuletide mashup, A Christ…
Sandra Smith and Fela Kuti, when they were together in 1969-70At the time of his death in 1997, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was known by many names: Afrobeat pioneer, a political instigator, …
Charles Dickens Action Figure Stocking Stuffer
A cursory glance at last week's L.A. Weekly theater reviews reveals a typical early-December harvest of local holiday-themed shows but …
George GrigorianAnjel Dust, a dancer for more than a decade, also is an organizer of the California Pole Dance Championships.With her Lucite heels, cheeky schoolgirl pigtails and silk…
In 2003, a security guard from Kermit, West Virginia, named Robert Ward was driving to work when he lost control of his 1985 Ford, plunged 150 feet into a snowy gulch and broke his hip.
If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress,…
Joel DaavidTony Gatto and Lulu Brud, in Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" at the Lillian​Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the We…
Ever had questions about Hell, Satan or various and sundry demons? Then TV writer Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and t…
Wikimedia CommonsWhat makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
True, in …
Craig SchwartzWhen director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler signed on to turn the movie Bring It On into a big, splashy musical-theater event, now premiering at the Ahmanson Theatre…
