It’s a banner year for one-person shows in Los Angeles: Denis O’Hare in An Iliad, Christopher Plummer in A Word or Two, Daniel Beaty in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Barry McGovern in I’ll Go On, Annette Bening in Ruth Draper’s Monologues. But the most off-the-wall one-man production stars Michael Urie (best known as the bitchy Marc St....
Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart is finally a movie—and it only took 29 years. Directed by Glee and American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy (he also did Eat, Pray, Love) the film began airing on HBO this past weekend. But before it was a TV movie, it was a landmark play penned by writer and AIDS activist Larry...
“I never thought of myself being able to make a living by dying,” says Philip Glass. 50 years after 1964’s “Brass Sextet,” the prolific 77-year-old composer finds that he has lived long enough to see his work embraced around the world. Beginning on Friday, Glass will appear in three different concerts at UCLA celebrating his work and that of...
There’s something about the decades well before his birth that keep hovering over Cheyenne Jackson. He first came to fame in All Shook Up, a musical using Elvis Presley’s songs. He later appeared in a revival of Finian’s Rainbow, a show that first appeared on Broadway in the late 1940s. This Saturday he’ll be singing Music of the Mad...
“Keeping laughs fresh is easy because you have a new audience every night. Them hearing the joke for the first time makes you feel like you are telling it for the first time.”
Filmgoers know actor Alfred Molina as Doc Ock in Spiderman 2 and Diego Rivera in Frida, but local audiences may also know Molina from his appearances on stage in such productions as The Cherry Orchard and Red (both at the Mark Taper Forum) and the Tony Award-winning production of Art. He is also a supporter and regular participant in...
When 89-year-old Elaine Stritch recently dropped an “F-bomb” on The Today Show, she knew exactly what she was doing. Suddenly, the video of her appearance was all over the internet. What a perfect way to get publicity for the documentary Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, which opens in L.A. theaters this Friday and is already available on VOD.
Stritch, who’s no...
Some pieces of music become so ingrained in our psyches that we don’t consider new interpretations or we overlook what made it so great in the first place. Jeffrey Kahane, music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, is making it his mission to shed new light on some of the classical repertoire’s most important pieces of music during...
Not many singers who have a hit song at the age of sixteen are still performing at the age of 68. Even fewer still could suffer the incredible highs and lows that Bettye LaVette has experienced and still be, as her new album is titled, Thankful N’ Thoughtful. On Saturday at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the resilient,...