by Julie Riggott | Apr 2, 2013 | Theater and Dance |
Theatre Raymond Kabbaz presents an evening of contemporary dance by Compagnie Étant Donné, with TU, an exercise of view, on Friday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. Étant Donné explores dance as a conceptual art form, with performances that interpret the world through gesture,...
by Julie Riggott | Mar 12, 2013 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
Hollywood has nothing on LA Opera’s enthralling production of “The Flying Dutchman” (Der fliegende Holländer). A vampiric ship’s captain and ghoulish choruses of sailors and young women entrance us with Richard Wagner’s 19th-century ghost/love story — an old legend in...
by Julie Riggott | Feb 27, 2013 | Entertainment and Events, Featured |
Everything about Cavalia’s Odysseo is big. The white big top by the 5 Freeway in Burbank is 10 stories high and about the size of a football field, with seating for 2,000 people. The show features a herd of 67 horses, representing 11 breeds, and a cast of 44 artists —...
by Julie Riggott | Feb 13, 2013 | Theater and Dance |
Two obsessive linguists and a 9-year-old zealot meet head-on with the magnetic leader of an est-like group training seminar in Complete, a new, fast-paced comedy by Andrea Kuchlewska, opening Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood.
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by Julie Riggott | Feb 12, 2013 | Theater and Dance |
In David Wiener’s play “Cassiopeia” at the Theatre @ Boston Court, two characters — Quiet and Odetta — reveal a lifetime of isolation and longing. Odetta, deemed ugly and unlovable by her own mother, is a black maid from the rural South. Quiet, a math genius with...
