Sure, there are smart comedians, but how many graduated from Caltech with a degree in physics? Sandra Tsing Loh is in...
CD Review: Benedicta: Marian Chant From Norcia
Harken back to 1994: one of the biggest-selling recordings of that year was Chant by the Benedictine monks of Santo...
Review: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum
It’s been said that courage is the rarest virtue, which perhaps goes a long way in explaining the deep emotional...
Review: ‘Green Day’s American Idiot: The Musical’ at the MET Theatre
Any time you have a troupe of young people on stage singing their hearts out, you want to get behind them, cheer them...
LACO @ The Movies Celebrates Walt Disney Animation Studios
In a remarkable convergence of film restoration, musical imagination and extraordinary sleuthing, two long-lost...
Review: Le Salon de Musiques
If you want to hear great chamber music performed by outstanding musicians in an intimate atmosphere where you’re only...
Review: Gustavo Dudamel and Jean-Yves Thibaudet Perform Ravel
On Saturday night, Gustavo Dudamel led the LA Phil in an almost-all-Ravel program, including Le tombeau de Couperin,...
Review: ‘The House of Yes’ at the Zephyr Theatre
I’ve always liked a good horror story, and Wendy MacLeod’s 1990 play The House of Yes fits the bill quite nicely,...
Emmanuel Villaume, Lise de la Salle and the LA Phil
Throughout the history of music, there have been countless times when an orchestral conductor has been unable to carry...