Breadline Productions, a new theater company in these parts that presented more than 20 original plays in a previous Chicago incarnation, is now introducing itself to Los Angeles audiences with the world premiere staging of 11, September at the Odyssey Theatre on Sepulveda Boulevard. Written by and co-starring company artistic director Paul Kampf, 11, September mostly takes place in the New York apartment of a young waitress who hooks up with one of her café customers, an out-of-town professor participating in a conference to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. Whether by fate, design or coincidence, then, the pair’s respective disclosures reveal that their lives are more tightly, and tragically, entwined than their evidently random initial encounter had indicated. more ›

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Freshly atoned and ready to face the world, I bring forth the review of last week’s Scissor Sisters Shrine appearance.. Let’s start with a tip of the hat and heaping plate of kudos to the crack security team. A+ for excessive paranoia, but D- for negligent handbag-cavity search. The mondo satchel strapped across my bod like Rambo could have easily been packing heat (bringing “death before disco” to new and terrifying heights). But they... more ›

This adventure started like many others, with a bag of treats from Trader Joe’s, a jug of Fadorade, an already looped pal, and a long walk up a steep hill. TV on the Radio : hit the stage like the kind of fireworks that boom pretty and loud and then surprise you by exploding 3 or 4 more times before falling down to earth in glittery bits of glimmering ash. TVOTR, an unlikely major-label... more ›