From the Editor

Posted By Nyla Arslanian

Summertime and the livin' is easy. That may be true for the true South, but it's also vacation time and there's always an influx of visitors that our summer travel plans don't match. Rachel Flanagan's article about the Hollywood Sign points out what ...

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Apathy Killed the Cat - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan Apathy Killed the Cat is a one-act play written and directed by Ryan Lisman and premiering at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The play centers around an unstable playwright named Colin (Aaron Stall). Colin is slowly losing his ...

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Out & About with Susan Hornik 6/26/17

Posted By Susan Hornik

By Susan Hornik For Mummy Day, Tom Cruise was at the Hollywood & Highland complex as they unveiled a big mummy for Universal's The Mummy movie. "I just remember growing up and seeing them on Friday and Saturday night when I was a little kid and ...

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The Amitycode - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Harrison Held

By Harrison Held Photo by Nick Cimiluca I had a terrific time at the Hollywood Fringe Festival last night watching the 10 pm performance of the must see play The Amitycode written by and starring the talented Devin Crittenden at the intimate ...

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1001 Minutes of New Musicals - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Bill Garry

By Bill Garry I think of the Hollywood Fringe Festival as creative anarchy -- independent writers, composers, actors and producers put on hundreds of shows with just as many goals in mind. Some want to be discovered, some want to hone their craft, ...

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The Interference - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Erin Fair

By Erin Fair It is a tale as old as time, but The Interference is no fairytale; it's a story of sexual violation. Before the play begins, the audience walks in and the stage is littered with a cast of thirteen front and center. They sit very still ...

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Tough Brown Leather - Hollywood Fringe Festival Review

Posted By Erin Fair

By Erin Fair Two chairs adorn the minimalist stage, framing the performer and a projector shining on a white screen. The lights in the theater go down and the screen displays a singular image of four black girls holding hands and partaking in a ...

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Dogfight - Theatre Review

Posted By Joshua Kahn

By Joshua Kahn The talented young ensemble of After Hours Theatre Company attempts their biggest production yet with the spirited staging of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Dogfight at the Hudson Theatre. The musical, based on the 1991 film of the same ...

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Book of Mormon - Theatre Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan What do you get when you mix the writers of an animated series that follows cartoon children on foul-mouthed adventures with a Broadway musical comedy about two mismatched Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda to spread the word of ...

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Species Native to California - Theatre Review

Posted By Annette Semerdjian

By Annette Semerdjian "Species Native to California " is a tale about the significance of land, especially in the age of current political turmoil. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" and the Mexican folk tale of La Llorona, Dorothy ...

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Lucky Stiff - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

By Bill Garry There's something really wholesome about seeing a show at the Actors Co-Op in Hollywood. The troupe's home is at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, which has a beautiful, pristine campus on the northern edge of Hollywood with ...

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Out & About with Susan Hornik 5/19/17

Posted By Susan Hornik

By Susan Hornik Will Brahm It's rare to find a musician as diverse as Will Brahm. Whether he's playing jazz in "The Los Angeles Jazz Collective" or covering contemporary songs with "New West Guitar," Brahm is a master at his craft. Brahm's latest ...

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Alien: Covenant - Film Review

Posted By Joan Alperin

By Joan Alperin Many people, myself included, weren't that crazy about Ridley Scott's Prometheus. People found it confusing and not up to par with the original Alien film. Well, guess what? Mr. Scott has completely redeemed himself with his new film ...

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The Ningyo - Film Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan A good movie can transport anyone to a faraway place in a faraway time, make people laugh, cry or scream in terror and sometimes teach a little something along the way. "The Ningyo," a short film directed by Miguel Ortega and ...

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Fefu and Her Friends - Theatre Review

Posted By Annette Semerdjian

By Annette Semerdjian "Theatre is life! Life is theatre," exclaims Caro Zeller who plays Emma in the internationally cast "Fefu and Her Friends." Emma is just one of the characters that comes from all walks of life and further adds to the theatrics ...

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The Awful Grace of God - Theatre Review

Posted By Discover Hollywood

By Rachel Flanagan Seasoned actor Michael Harney, widely known as Inmate Counselor Sam Healy in the Netflix original "Orange Is the New Black," brings to the stage an evening of six one-act plays in The Awful Grace of God. Harney reunites with ...

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Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers - Theatre Review

Posted By Annette Semerdjian

By Annette Semerdjian "Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers" is not only a great name for a metal band but also the title of Skylight Theatre's new play. Written by Louisa Hill, the story spans from the 60s to the 90s beginning with Dee ...

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Rabbit Hole - Theatre Review

Posted By Rachel Flanagan

By Rachel Flanagan Rabbit Hole, directed by Eric Hunicutt, is David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer-Prize winning play that tells a tale of a family struck by the emotional whirlwind of a tragedy. As they struggle to regain their footing, the world around ...

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Saudi Film Festival

Posted By Alexander Woodman

By Alexander Woodman Despite stereotypical Western perceptions of Saudi Arabia, its culture is complex and diverse. The country is evolving and growing at its own rate. The labor ministry has approved film production as an economic activity. This is ...

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Lone Star - Theatre Review

Posted By Bill Garry

By Bill Garry I've seen Lone Star a number of times in both professional and student productions. The story of a battle-scarred Viet Nam vet, Roy, and his submissive brother, Ray, is set in the junk-strewn yard behind a bar in Maynard, Texas in 1981. ...

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