Mia Bonadonna

While Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope is about the comic-con crowd, the film's underlying themes of hope, community, acceptance, and the human capacity to be extraordinary make the film boundlessly inclusive and universally engaging.

Pasadena is home to the Bunny Museum, a world record holding living museum that houses thousands upon thousands of bunny knick-knacks, trinkets, and tchotchkes. This wonderful little curiosity spot is housed within the walls of a quaint residential Victory Park cottage nestled at the foot of Mount Wilson.

Rogue Machine's Artistic Director John Flynn, waxed knowingly about the shared theatrical lifeblood of Los Angeles. Flynn eloquently declared, "Art is transformative. It can change the world. It isn't what we do, but how we do it that is transformative."

Watching the The Vault: Bankrupt is like witnessing the awkward love-child of Wall Street and The Rocky Horror Picture Show on its first day at work as a bastardized and modernized 1950s educational film, but, you know, on a stage.

The scenes with the Kat Bailess (as Julie) and Charles Howerton (as Alexander) are particularly juicy as the pair dukes it out in a deliciously premeditated power scheme. Bailess is gutsy and electric, while Howerton is poised, subtle and potent.

"All in for the 99%" has sent out a city-wide call for Angelenos to come out this Saturday to pose for an aerial photo shoot of our local 99% en masse. The shoot is part of an all-day "All in for the 99%" public art exhibition to raise awareness about the issues surrounding the 99% movement.

Twain was an outspoken critic and really funny, but has that special spark that comes from intellectual experience. Twain came before Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. He started the great tradition of being outspoken!

The cARTel Collaborative Arts LA series strives to build a link between today's creative community of local artists and those yesteryear Hollywood hopefuls that came eras before. This homage to L.A.'s art ancestors blends modern aesthetic sensibilities with classic charm for a night of (in the words of the director Negin Singh) "sustainable story-telling with a little bit of glamour."

While sitting in a bright and simple deli on Hollywood Boulevard watching various costumed characters from Grauman's Chinese Theatre wander by, LAist chatted with Leonard Manzella about his new play and his ideas about prison reform.

Dolan respectfully approaches inequality paradigms in a way that is rarely found in any arena -- be it political, economic, social, or artistic. The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King is not pandering, jokey, insulting, or overly-academic; but rather wonderfully insightful, fearless, and honorable.

Under the direction of Casey Stangl, The Illusion is visually enchanting and peppered with fine performers and a most excellent surprise ending. While the philosophical undertones of The Illusion are geared toward a sophisticated adult audience, the charming staging of this production has tons of kid-friendly appeal and is perfectly suited for budding theatre patrons.

Cages is entertaining and well-rounded with a largely capable cast, engaging script, excellent staging, and insightful direction. The title is an eerie reference to so-called "therapeutic modules" used in prisons to contain inmates during group therapy sessions.