Last night I attended an amazing night of singing to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Produced and hosted by Tye Blue, the evening raised money for the Houston Food Bank and the Montrose Center. Here are images...
Culture choices abound this weekend. Here are my picks as the best options:
A Little Night Music in Concert - Colony Theatre (Fri/Sat/Sun)
Any opportunity to hear this gorgeous score by Stephen Sondheim is a good one. The show, inspired by...
Last night I attended the opening of Matthew Bourne's new ballet, The Red Shoes at the Ahmanson Theatre. I think this is one of the best of Bourne's works and one key reason is his inventive choice for music.
The show...
We've all been to open-mic nights because a friend was performing or we felt some other reason to be there. But there's one open-mic night that I have been to that I can recommend.
Jim Caruso's Cast Party is a...
Imagine being a six-year-old asked to watch an opera. Let’s be honest, how many six-year-olds want to do that? But if your mother is singing in the production you are probably a bit more motivated. And how lucky would...
When I think of one Oscar-winning Best Picture it may perhaps be because of its rather glib assessment of Los Angeles. “I don’t want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is the ability to make...
"I still owe money on the first film. I did the second because I was worried that someone would make it, and now I’m afraid someone wouldn’t."
After making a name for herself playing Sally Bowles in a French production of Cabaret in 1987, singer-actress Ute Lemper was encouraged to make an album featuring songs from that show and other pop and Broadway tunes. The CD was...
"I’m represented so well by the things I’ve put into the world. It will always drive me crazy that I don’t have a show that is Book of Mormon or Hamilton."
"To really give yourself over to that world is a really big commitment. I read it twice through before we started writing. All the chapters that irritated me at the beginning are now my favorites—those side chapters not involved in the plot.”