The day before she turned 75, the Great White Way’s songstress supreme gave Angelenos a bravura birthday present on April 21, as Patti LuPone presented her musical memoir A Life in Notes at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The three-time...
25 April 2024
TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL 2024: Film Review
Part I: The “Coachella of Classic Movies” Rides Again at Hollywood
By Ed Rampell
As a film historian/critic, Turner Classic Movies is my favorite TV channel, and I...
16 April 2024
In 1927 Sergei Eisenstein – the wunderkind of Soviet cinema, whose 1925 Potemkin swept the globe – was reportedly pressured to cut Leon Trotsky out of October, aka Ten Days that Shook the World, the film he was commissioned to make...
08 April 2024
A Noise Within’s gripping production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II is a brutal, harrowing odyssey into what W.E.B. Du Bois called “the soul of Black folks.” The drama is part of Wilson’s epic exploration of African American life...
29 March 2024
The 31st annual Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival is taking place this weekend. LAWTF shines the limelight on women of various ethnicities who perform solo shows. This year’s theme is “Telling Our Truths.” On March 23 the Festival...
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