Based on the Stephen Daldry/Lee Hall 2000 film (which starred Jamie Bell), this 2008 musical version, Billy Elliot The Musical (music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall), earned its …
The fourth season of Spiral (aka Engregages) " a remarkable French television cop and legal drama set in Paris " is as superbly plot-heavy and character-sized as the previous three. The writ…
Josefina López has made numerous valuable contributions to Latino culture. You can see it in her theatre and filmic writing, in Casa 0101, a Chicano-theatre she founded in her beloved Eas…
American TV and film actor and musician John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon IIIÂ (February 8, 1925 " June 27, 2001)Â was one of the great 20th century film actors, a master of comedy an…
Clown Bar is an absolutely bizarre bit of madness about clowns that plays Thursday nights only in Pasadena. Labeled "clown noir," and based on the premise of a bar run by and for clowns, in …
The Almighty Johnsons is an entertaining, if preposterous, New Zealand-produced TV series (it lasted three seasons) that is skewed towards the young and impressionable. Expect a lot of frank…
The crooner/actor, Bing Crosby (1903-1977), became an American cultural icon rather early in his career, when he sang (or crooned, a useful codeword for romantic sexuality in the voice) over…
One thing is for sure: Los Angeles is not now, nor has it ever been, renowned for its whole-hearted support for the artistic world of ballet. A shame, for outsider dance is very much appreci…
Steven Sondheim's masterpiece of intelligent writing (music and lyrics), Into The Woods, has been given a substantial production by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and imported to the Walli…
This PBS documentary enshrining the late Robin Williams' path into television and film history is a sober reminder of how even the best comics in the world often suffer from intense depressi…
Noël Coward's 1924 drama of the excesses of drugs, closeted homosexuality and fatal denial of ageing has been given a strong, if strange, production from its original run at the Malibu St…
It's a fair question if the specific brand of anarchic humor owned by the late playwright Joe Orton (1933-1967) works anymore. A gifted comedic writer in his day, Orton wanted to " and did "…
"In the Heights" is back in Boyle Heights, at Casa 0101 for the second time in a year. Director Rigo Tejeda and costumer Abel Alvarado hope for audiences from the barrio and from the West Si…
Filipinos' devotion to the TV series Dallas and other American artifacts is the topic of Boni Alvarez's "Dallas Non-Stop," a Playwrights' Arena production in Atwater.
The most-nominated individual women for this year's Ovation Awards, with four apiece, are the mid-career director and choreographer Tina Kronis and the young actress Micaela Martinez.
Director Casey Stangl returns to Antaeus Company after her "Peace in Our Time" triumph to direct David Ives' "The Liar," a "translaptation" of Corneille's "Le Menteur."
Joshua Ravetch was inspired by a decade of working at New Line Cinema to write his ad agency tale, "The Light Bulb," opening at NoHo Arts Center.
Director Simon Levy is reviving Larry Kramer's angry polemic about the early days of the AIDS crisis, "The Normal Heart," at the Fountain. Tim Cummings stars as Ned Weeks.
Peggy Webber's California Artists Radio Theatre has a large catalogue of plays on CD but is running low on funds and radio outlets.
The unlikely topic for a musical, the story of Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, Jodie Foster's 1991 chilling movie, the parody has found a devoted audience. Opening in 2005 somewhere in the …