Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released 40 years ago. Monty Python played the Hollywood Bowl 35 years ago. Monty Python’s Spamalot opened on Broadway 10 years ago. It’s a season of anniversaries that Eric Idle is celebrating by appearing as the Historian in three performances of Spamalotat the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. Or the Bollywood Hole as...
"I think Bent has shown me the kind of divine pleasure of going ahead with something even though it might be really scary."
Amongst the top grossing movies of 1985 were The Color Purple, Witness, Cocoon, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Out of Africa. Far ahead of the pack was Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Lea Thompson. To celebrate the 30 year anniversary of its release, Back to the Future will be shown at the...
"That monologue is not all of my life. At some point I need to go beyond it and explore other areas of my life publicly."
It seems that every story about singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc begins with “you may not know his name, but….” The best follow-up to that is “but you should.” Last year he released the album Lift Your Spirit. He also appeared at the Hollywood Bowl at last summer’s tribute to James Brown. Little did he know that from that appearance would...
It’s been six years since composer Tim Minchin began his public journey with Matilda The Musical. His adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic book has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. This week the touring production opens at the Ahmanson Theatre. On Monday, Minchin will be performing his stand-up material during a sold-out concert at Largo at the...
Of course everyone knows Tim Curry for his bravura role as Frank ‘n’ Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. But there’s much more to the man than the sweet transvestite from Transylvania. His career on the stage is so diverse and impressive that The Actors Fund is awarding him the Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday’s Tony Awards Viewing Party....
"American Sign Language (ASL) is such a style, but I think we’re attempting to make it all seem within the world of the play as opposed to the concert version.”
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard once said, “If you are hung up on maintaining the tradition, you’re never going to be yourself. This is music about breaking the tradition.” In two very different concerts (one this week and one at the Playboy Jazz Festival in June), Blanchard will be celebrating the past of jazz as well as...
"We are all capable of enormous good and enormous evil. Does repeating the worst behavior of a criminal and putting that onto them solve anything? Does that make us better? Who has all the answers?”