24th Street Theatre
Now through October 15, 2017
Now through October 15, 2017
La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts
September 15 - Oct 8, 2017
September 15 - Oct 8, 2017
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,...
When Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott Launched their theater company, A Noise Within, in a tiny Glendale space 25 years ago, their critics were not optimistic. “There were people who said we’d be dead within two weeks,” Rodriguez-Elliott says. The mission of...
In 2014, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and artists like Lalah Hathaway, Bilal, and En Vogue saluted a selection of seminal and beloved musical tracks from seven decades of black cinema. As classic arrangements from Shaft and The Bodyguard were played, clips of famed...
Broadway behemoth A Chorus Line turns 40 this week, and what better way to celebrate than with three performances of the iconic show at the Hollywood Bowl? Once the longest running show in Broadway history, ACL is a meta meditation on the Great...
Composers have long been using musicals as a medium for social commentary. Given what we know (or think we know) of Cabaret from the memorable 1972 film—or the countless productions of the show—it was considered very provocative when it debuted in...
Of the 1975 documentary film by the Maysles Brothers that inspired the musical Grey Gardens, actress Rachel York says, “It is important for the audience to know that this was the purest form of reality television. There was a...
When Disney first explored the idea of doing Broadway productions, they had a long tradition of in-park shows under their belts. In 2013, when Frozenbecame a worldwide phenomenon, it seemed inevitable that the House of Mouse would look to...
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...