Happy New Year, readers!
I'm getting back into it after a quiet Christmas & New Year break.
Lots of plays and art shows lined up for this month, so keep reading!
Currently tearing up the tap-dance floor, late night on Saturdays in Vitello’s downstairs back bar in Studio City, is a triple-threat phenomenon named Chantz Powell. Immaculately bedecked in a three-piece suit, topped with a stylish fedora, Chantz sings, croons, scats, dances and blasts his trumpet like there’s no tomorrow. If you don’t keep your eyes
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On February 16, 2012, for one night only, The Broad Stage and National Geographic present Deep Ancestry, its most ambitious project in their 120-year history. Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells offers the vivid, engaging story of human migration. Deep Ancestry is an epic global journey in search of the secrets of our distant past. Since 2005, National
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LA is truly fortunate at present to have two interrelated plays and productions concurrently on its stages. This matched pair of plays consist of director Phylicia’s Rashad’s handsome production A Raisin in the Sun and director Pam McKinnon’s Clybourne Park – the former a presentation of Ebony Repertory Theatre Company now at the Kirk Douglas
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Gentle readers! This week’s theatre review for LA Weekly is of René Rivera’s auto-biographical solo show, The King of the Desert. Click here and scroll down to find my review. ~ OR ~ You can just read it here! GO THE KING OF THE DESERT Bellowing, wildly gesticulating and posturing, René Rivera gives
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The stars will come out for laughs and a good cause when Craig Bierko and the Celebrit