Dr. Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic, with L.A. style
New York — After triumphantly bringing the Los Angeles Philharmonic to Coachella, Gustavo Dudamel is taking his biggest bite so far out of the Big Apple. He is in town for a ...
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Column: Are plans for the Joshua Tree Art Museum a desert mirage?
When is an art museum not an art museum? Among myriad potential answers is this one: When it’s the Joshua Tree Art Museum. JTAM is a surprising, even fanciful project ...
L.A. Theatre Works, citadel of audio drama, keeps adapting to changing times
The golden age of radio drama is a memory shared by a dwindling few. But the flame has been kept alive in Britain by BBC Radio, in Ireland on RTÉ ...
Director Michael Arden is no longer Broadway’s best kept secret
For too long, director Michael Arden was the best kept secret in the American theater. Insiders knew he was good. But it took a while to appreciate just how good. ...
Simply impeccable: This musical at A Noise Within in Pasadena shines with understated excellence
“A Man of No Importance,” an off-Broadway musical based on the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney as a Dublin bus conductor with an obsession for Oscar Wilde and a ...
The playwright who cracked open ‘The Crucible’ with ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’
New York — “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the title of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated play, has a strong polemical ring. Before seeing the work, I assumed that the author was picking a ...
Commentary: Is there a Los Angeles musical style?
The composer and critic Virgil Thomson once defined American music as music written by Americans. There is no arguing with that. Less obvious, however, is figuring out what, if anything, ...
‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at Pasadena Playhouse: A woman walks out on her husband and child, and then …
Mom walks out on husband and child, and then … Actors Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner have known each other since a chance meeting at the edge of a ...
A queer rent boy and a Filipina immigrant keep their California dreams alive in ‘Califas Trilogy’
Dreams erode. Whether challenging the American Dream of stability, the Californian vision of expanse or the glittery illusions of L.A., Roger Q. Mason’s “Califas Trilogy” dives into the meltdown of ...
‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit,’ with a new star every night, opens at the Fountain
“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour has opened at the Fountain Theatre, and the less I tell you about it, the better. Soleimanpour is known for his ...
