Sam Harris - Catalina Bar & Grill
October 13-14
Remember Star Search? The show that pre-dates America's Got Talent, The Voice and other shows? Singer Sam Harris made his mark on that show and went on to star on Broadway in The Life and many other shows to prove there is life after competition shows on television. His concert will no doubt cover the...
To simply label Karen Finely as one of the "NEA 4" who had to go to the Supreme Court to fight the revocation of her National Endowment for the Arts grant would be to ignore a now 40-year career. During that time she has been written and performed countless solo shows, been part of the national dialogue on politics...
“The Hubble Cantata is one of the projects that is sort of leading the way in technology and performance,” says producer Beth Morrison about the show she is producing at the Ford Theatre tonight. “Certainly in the classical arts which are often time behind popular culture.” Beth Morrison heads Beth Morrison Projects and this concert is in partnership with LA...
In Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play Head of Passes; currently playing at the Mark Taper Forum, Kyle Beltran plays “Crier,” a young man clearly in love with Cookie, a troubled woman he can’t have. They are part of the characters that surround Shelah, the matriarch of Cookie’s family facing a devastating storm. Phylicia Rashad gives a towering, career-defining performance as...
When Carole J. Bufford takes to the stage at Catalina Bar and Grill tonight, she won’t just be making her Los Angeles cabaret debut. She will be facing an eager audience wanting to hear if she really is, as Stephen Holden said in his 2013 New York Times review, an “earthier, more acerbic 21st century Barbra Streisand.”
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