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Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor, has died.
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Jodi Fleisher and Barry Alan Levine in 'South of Delancey.' (Photo by Dove Huntley) South of Delancey, a new history inflected docu-drama play by Karen Sommers, is currently at Fremont Centre Theatre. Based on an actual 1940s rabbinical arbitration radio program, the play enacts real family crises from archival radio audio and imagined fictional back stories. South of Delancey features relatable characters, vintage audio, competent performers, and a period set that gives the audience...
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Head Lip, Wayne Coyne, shares his thoughts on mentally preparing for a double album, the ultimate stage show, the power of the PC to enable music-making weirdos, and why completist collectors’ angst doesn’t faze him one bit.
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Photo by Melissa Acedera via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out: But don't do it from a tall chair. Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby's beloved and bizarre, 94-minute, cult love story starring Ruth Gordon and death-obsessed Bud Cort, hits Cinespia tonight with a screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard (At Gower). Gates 7:30 p.m., Film 9:00 p.m., $10 "donation" at gate. Walk...
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Hugh Leonard's dry humored, The Au Pair Man, is playing at Raven Playhouse in conjunction with the Celtic Arts Center. Through unusual circumstances surrounding the employ of a young Irish man by a creepy English matron, this dialogue heavy period piece is a social commentary on the traps of classism and ironic cruelty.
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Photo by Carolyn Coles via Flickr The end of the Oprah Era means more than the loss of a national anticipation for 4:00 p.m., heart-wrenching exposés, couch-jumping shenanigans and free cars; it also marks the departure of one of the largest book clubs in history. Swaying millions of viewers to read the kinds of books that put Cliff’s Notes in business proves that there is power in community reading. While the act of reading...
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Brendan Farrell and Kate Huffman in "100 Saints You Should Know." Photo - Sven Ellirand. It's somewhat of a novelty these days to see a Catholic priest in a modern play that isn’t automatically presented as a child molester. In older works, the clergy were perhaps treated too reverentially--genial, saintly figures in sweaters, invariably from Ireland. One of the great virtues of Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know is that she portrays a...
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Rape. Murder. Regret. It all happens on top of a Caribbean beat in the latest video from 23-year-old Barbados-born pop sensation Rihanna. Since its premiere on Wednesday, "Man Down" has drawn ire from the likes of the Parents Television Council and others for its suggested violence.
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Photo by Lord Jim (Stefan Kloo) via LAist's flickr pool. NHM FIRST FRIDAYS* Tonight’s the last First Friday of the season at the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park. So it’s your chance to get educated while rocking out at the same time. Tours and discussions begin at 5:30 and topics include shells and the dinosaur-bird connection. The music begins at 8 pm with live performances by Gayngs and Dirty Beaches. KCRW DJs Anthony...
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Rob Corddry's "Childrens Hospital" returns to Adult Swim tonight at midnight - it's on the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for tonight. --- The Hollywood Reporter has a fantastic profile on Chelsea Handler and the various shows she's creating. --- Jane Lynch will host the Emmys, unfortunately.
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When Toronto police officer Michael Sanguinetti told a group of students at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in January that the women among them should avoid "dressing like sluts" lest they be raped, little did he know that he was about to spark a movement. Outraged by the incident -- and others like it -- local activists Heather Jarvis and Sonya Barnett launched SlutWalk, described on its website as a mission to spread the word that "those who experience sexual assault are not the ones at fault, without exception."
