Blog Posts in 2017

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Savion Glover - Dance Review Posted By Joan Alperin By Joan Alperin After going through a 70 million dollar renovation, the Ford Amphitheatre, which originally was built in 1920, reopened with an incredible show. The amazing Savion Glover tapped to the sounds of Dance Candy, a super tight jazz group, ... Continue reading » Permalink
The Devil's Wife - Skylight Theatre Posted By Joshua Kahn By Joshua Kahn The Skylight Theatre presents another world premiere with Tom Jacobson's The Devil's Wife, a pulpy, comedic melodrama, heavily steeped in the world of 19th Century moralistic fables. Its roots as a European folktale become immediately ... Continue reading » Permalink
Any Night - Theatre Review Posted By Rachel Flanagan By Rachel Flanagan Is it a sleepwalker's nightmare or a sweet love story? Any Night at Sacred Fools Theater will have you hooked on finding out. Anna (Marie Fahlgren) is an attractive young woman looking for a new place to start over. Thanks to a ... Continue reading » Permalink
Odd Brodsky - Film Review Posted By Bill Garry By Bill Garry Odd Brodsky, an independent comedy from writer-director Cindy Baer (working with co-writer Matthew Irving), is a little movie overstuffed with big-hearted sitcom laughs. It's about quirky Audrey "Aud" Brodsky and a group of equally ... Continue reading » Permalink
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Film Review Posted By Joan Alperin By Joan Alperin First off, I must say that British actor Tom Holland is my favorite Spider-Man ever and this reboot, directed by Jon Watts, is my favorite film in this Marvel franchise. What makes this film work so well, is that it's your basic ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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, ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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 ... Continue reading » Permalink
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