Kathleen Turner is currently onstage at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles for the West Coast premiere of “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.” David Esbjornson directs the one-woman show about the famous columnist and political commentator from Texas, which continues through Feb. 19.
“Red Hot Patriot” is a roaring salute to Ivins’ [...]
ARENA 1 presents “Refocus: Multicultural Focus”, a photography exhibition organized by Sheila Pinkel. The exhibit, which opens on Jan. 7 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and continues through Jan. 28, is part of the Pacific Standard Time cultural collaboration. Here are the details from Santa Monica Art Studios:
In 1981, the exhibition “Multicultural [...]
You may not know it, but most people are informally aware of Charles and Bernice “Ray” Eames’ aesthetic impact on the world. In “Eames: The Architect and the Painter,” producers Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey recount the lives and creative output of the Eameses, who are best known for their modern furniture (such as the [...]
Teenagers listening to a teacher with utmost interest and intense concentration… teenagers following instructions with utter devotion, striving to be the best they can be… and ultimately, teenagers grinning as happily as if they were at a party, even though what they’ve been doing was, in fact, hard musical work. Elusive though such visions often [...]
The week after Thanksgiving, the Polish playwright Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk will be in town for two public readings of her plays (directed by two mainstays of the Los Angeles theater scene): Pantofelnik’s Suitcase, directed by Katharine Noon (Ghost Road Company) at the Atwater Village Theatre, on Nov. 29, and The Mayor, directed by Jon Lawrence [...]
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre puts the play in the Bard’s plays with endless rambunctious energy and side-splitting physical humor — so much so, that you’ll feel as if no one could have more fun onstage with William Shakespeare’s comedies than this London-based troupe that performs at home in an authentic reproduction of the Bard’s 1599 playhouse. [...]
UCLA Live is offering Culture Spot readers free tickets for its Friday, Nov. 11, event featuring percussionist Evelyn Glennie and cellist Maya Beiser at Royce Hall at 8 p.m. The first five readers to email editor@culturespotla.com with the correct answer to this trivia question will each win a pair of tickets: When was Royce [...]
The A x S Festival 2011 runs Oct. 1 through 16, continuing the Pasadena Arts Council’s biennial celebration of Pasadena’s unique heritage as a city of art and science. The festival, focused on the theme of fire and water, features two weeks of art, dance, music, theater, performance and conversation at venues throughout the city. [...]
Beginning on Oct. 1, “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980” brings together more than 60 cultural institutions throughout Southern California to tell the story of the rise of the L.A. art scene and its impact on the art world. This colossal collaboration was initiated by the Getty Foundation, and the Getty Center has organized [...]
LA Opera’s season has already begun, promising music lovers a trip around the world in the company of some fascinating characters, like Romeo and Juliet, Simon Boccanegra, Albert Herring and Eugene Onegin.
Things kicked off with Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” which continues through Oct. 9. This Romantic Russian opera, based on the classic verse novel of the [...]
