Between Riverside and Crazy - LA Theatre Works at James Bridges Theatre/UCLA
November 17-19
In 2015, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play. The Pulitzer committee called this play “a nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police offer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.†This weekend...
When director John Scheinfeld embarked on a documentary about legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, he knew the influence of the musician was broad. So he corralled President Bill Clinton, Oscar-winning artist Common, rock legend Carlos Santana and jazz sensation Kamasi Washington to talk about the man called “Trane.” He also landed Denzel Washington to voice the words of Coltrane...
“I conducted every piece of music for him in his lifetime,” conductor John Mauceri says of his time with composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Of course he is referring to every piece of music Bernstein wrote. “The composer was articulate and trusted my work and felt completely free to give me advice on what I needed to perform his music.”
That experience...
