We expect rock bands and rocky relationships to go hand in hand, having heard plenty of stories about drama and personality conflicts, break ups and reunions, over the decades. Even the best have not been immune — just look at The Beatles.
Since musicians are human and, as artists, maybe even more temperamental than most, it [...]
The lineup for the UCLA Live 2010-11 season is so remarkable that each event could be considered a highlight of the season. Below, we’ve covered the dance and classical lineups. But consider also the big names scheduled in jazz, including Ornette Coleman (Nov. 3) and Chick Corea and Gary Burton (March 5), and in spoken [...]
REDCAT’s annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival draws to a close tonight (Aug. 7), but the three live performances included in this week’s show raise more than enough questions to fuel another year of artistic investigation. And as Thursday’s show sold out long before show time, get your tickets NOW and read on after.
Alexandro Segade’s [...]
“The process is completely fascinating,” says longtime theater lover Abigail Paine, as she leaves the small West Los Angeles theater. “It really feels like a privilege to have watched something as unusual as ‘New York Animals’ evolve at Rogue Machine.” Paine says she has seen this mega-workshop of Steven Sater’s newest play three times. “And [...]
On July 22, City Ballet of Los Angeles performed the final installation of its three-week summer series, Concerto Project, against a magnificent backdrop. In front of a wall of windows in a cavernous loft space overlooking City National Plaza on South Flower Street, dancers sidled up next to office buildings gilded by the sun’s [...]
The Music Center offers free evenings of beginners’ dance lessons and dancing with DJs and live music throughout the summer. From 6:30 to 10 p.m., everyone is invited to Dance Downtown on the Music Center Plaza. Learn how to samba or relive the days of disco. The remaining dates are listed below.
If you are feeling [...]
There have been many versions of The Sleeping Beauty since the original premiere at St. Petersburg’s Maryinsky Theatre in 1890, each with its own vision of how best to honor Marius Petipa’s legendary choreography, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s masterful score and Ivan Vsevolozhsky’s groundbreaking direction. American Ballet Theatre has brought Beauty back in six different productions – [...]
Any Shakespeare production that leaves audiences clamoring for more after 2 hours and 40 minutes is a successful Shakespeare production — and obviously one that you should not miss. Such is the case with the Antaeus Company’s “King Lear,” onstage at the Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood through Aug. 15.
The Antaeus Company, which was [...]
The Edye Second Space at The Broad Stage presents Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words in July and September. Winner of the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, the hit comedy show created by Eugene Pack features celebrities performing the actual memoirs of other celebrities.
The Edye Second Space will be transformed into a [...]
Songs and Dances of Imaginary Lands, an interdisciplinary opera playing for two weekends in Culver City, is the culmination of seven years of creative development and community workshops. If seven years sounds impressive, consider these equally spectacular numbers — and respected names — affiliated with the project: Director O-Lan Jones of the nonprofit Overtone [...]
