by Pauline Adamek
ArtsBeat LA
Segerstrom Center for the Arts ends its 2012—13 International Dance season with the return of Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg performing its powerful production of Rodin May 3 – 5. This seventh visit to the Center by the Eifman is both the exclusive West Coast engagement of the company and the West Coast premiere of this extraordinary…
by Timothy Mangan
The OC Register
Conductor John Alexander and the Pacific Chorale gave a stunning performance of a program devoted to the music of Benjamin Britten on Sunday afternoon at Meng Concert Hall on the campus of Cal State Fullerton. The concert was part of “Britten 100/LA,” a festival spearheaded by L.A. Opera…
by Tom Chaits
Stage and Cinema
In mountaineering lingo, “committing” refers to forcing yourself into a place of no return leaving nowhere to go but forward; and so it is with life, loss and love in Sharr White’s (The Other Place*) two-hander, Annapurna, making its Los Angeles premiere courtesy of the Odyssey Theatre. A drama with…
by Deborah Krugman
LA Arts Beat
In the title role Dana Delaney transforms Beau Willomon’s middling comedy into a crackling satire that makes a trenchant commentary on the abuse of power. Delaney plays Chloe, the wife of an ambitious lawyer (Steven Weber) on the short list to be the President’s pick for attorney general. Chloe is a woman of leisure.…
by Tom Chaits
Stage and Cinema
Some people indulge in “culture” because they think that’s what they are supposed to do. They will slog their way through hours of highbrow offerings on PBS, slumber through a symphony or sit stupefied by a Shakespearian epic all because it makes them feel intellectually superior. The only…
by Jesse David Corti
Stage and Cinema
wild Up is an electric ensemble of twenty-two twenty-somethings who vigorously perform a maelstrom of eclectic musical works ranging from J.S. Bach to They Might Be Giants. Led by the dynamic and skittish Artistic Director-Conductor Christopher Rountree at REDCAT in Disney Hall last Wednesday, the zestful ensemble performs a…
by Bryan Buss
Edge Los Angeles
David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Proof premiered in Los Angeles for a limited engagement at the Hayworth Theatre with a haunting and spare production. Directed by Aliah Whitmore and sensitively acted by Daniela Ruah in the central role, the four-character story is a complex meditation on the…
by Victoria Looseleaf
LA Times
If Edward Hopper’s painting “Nighthawks” had been set in a splashy speak-easy, it might have come to life as Kyle Abraham’s ebullient work “Another Night.”One of four pieces performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on Thursday during its five-day run at the Music Center, this study in controlled…
by Mark Swed
LA Times
Times have certainly changed in Brooklyn. Streets unsafe last decade now bustle invitingly. Composers born in the borough last century couldn’t get away fast enough. Composers from all over now can’t move there fast enough. Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall the Los Angeles Philharmonic continued its Brooklyn…
by Mark Swed
LA Times
A tree grows most surely in Brooklyn. But what’s in a ZIP Code? The Los Angeles Philharmonic began its Brooklyn Festival on Tuesday night with a Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The hip New York City borough is not just a destination for visual artists, artisan…
