If the Oscars aren't your thing (and even if they are), here are some great options for culture this weekend in Los Angeles (March 2-4)
Who is Ernest and what's so important about him?
La Jolla Playhouse
Now - December 24
Now - December 24
Samueli Theatre at the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa
Oct 5-7
Venetian Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco
Oct 8
Oct 5-7
Venetian Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco
Oct 8
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...
Before Taylor Mac returns next year with the full 24 Decade History of Popular Music at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel, take a look a Taylor's pov on the entire project with an interview I did that posted...
If you were a fan of silent film star Buster Keaton, you were no doubt open to the idea of Johnny Depp playing a man obsessed with him in the 1993 film Benny and Joon. 24 years after the film,...
It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke: a failing president, a former assassin, and a former terrorist meet up at a park in Maryland. But that’s what really happened in 1978 when American President Jimmy Carter convinced...
One way of measuring the popularity of a work of fiction is how often it has been adapted for other forms. In the case of Somerset Maugham’s short story Rain, it has been turned into three movies (starring Gloria...
The works of Stephen Sondheim have been very good to Lee Blakeley. Or you can argue that Lee Blakeley has been very good to Sondheim’s work. The director oversaw the French premieres of A Little Night Music, Sunday in...