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Stay Tuned for Updates: In celebration of a life fully lived, memorial services will be held on March 14, 2020 for Orson Bean (1928 – 2020). A consummate raconteur, actor, voice artist, writer, and undisputed triple threat on stage, Orson Bean has been a...
The Book of Mormon is an undeniable smash hit. Written by the creators of the brilliant cartoon series, "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone who teamed up with songwriter Robert Lopez (best known today for his Oscar-winning work on Disney’s Frozen) the play has garnered...
Dan Savage (creator of the Savage Love sex advice column, the popular Savage Lovecast podcast, the ITMFA campaign, and the It Gets Better Project ) is bringing the HUMP! Film Festival back to Los Angeles from February 20th through February 29th, 2020. Now...
West Adams has all of the classic trappings of a Michael Sheppard show, slick transitions, exquisite scene design, and expert timing when it comes to stage management. Michael and his team are master craftsmen of intimate theatre. Skylight Theatre Company located at 1816 1/2 N Vermont Ave does...
In November 2019, Keith Skelton and Armando Arorizo led a group of nine photography students to Mexico City, Teotihuacan, Tlaxcala and Taxco Mexico for a cultural tour that focused on photographing the beauty and unique nature of Mexico. The results were highly impressive. Each student captured numerous unique...
Playwright Tony Blake is not a novice at writing for television and for theatre, but it’s almost always a mistake for any writer to direct their own material. Oft-stated, the argument by writers for this faux pas is “no one knows the material better than I,” which...
Sebastian Sacco has been in Hollywood for almost three years and is taking the city by storm. His career is on an upward swing with lead roles in A Christmas Recipe for Romance, a Christmas movie that just played on the UP-TV network, as well as a...
The film and television nominations for the 26th annual SAG Awards were announced in Hollywood this morning by actors, America Ferrera and Danai Gurira. In the television category The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel led the pack with four nods while on the feature film...
This finely-wrought import from Australia concerns a topic we Americans are only now getting around to acknowledging here:  how a “superior,” white-dominated culture dealt with Indigenous people’s lives, and deaths.  Written by two Aboriginal writer/director/actors, Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, the 20-year-old, less-than-seventy minutes, play...
Stephanie Alison Walker’s latest play, “The Abuelas,” (The Grandmothers) has had its stunning West Coast premiere at the elegant Antaeus Theatre under the vibrant direction of Andi Chapman. Gabriela (Luisina Quarleri), an Argentine-born concert cellist, and her American architect-husband, Marty (Seamus Dever), are an upscale, professional family in Chicago,...