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Music Reviews, The Hollywood Bowl

2025-09-23T18:45:54+00:00By |Categories: All Art Parties / Events, Music, Performing / Literary Arts, Reviews, Upcoming|Tags: , , |

Here at LAArtParty.com - we LOVE the Hollywood Bowl. We attend many concerts, and of course list this fabulous venue. Here are a few recent reviews at the Hollywood Bowl Recent Reviews at the Hollywood Bowl Jazz on Tap at the

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LA Opera, Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto Review

2025-06-04T00:28:20+00:00By |Categories: Music, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , |

Music Director James Conlon conducts the emotionally riveting production of  Verdi’s Rigoletto at the LA Opera (Music Center). Director Tomer Zvulun brings the classic 19th century opera into 1930’s fascist Italy. Jessica Hahn’s costumes populate the scene with masked men in

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Review: Here There Are Blueberries at the Wallis at the Wallis

2025-03-24T14:36:13+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , |

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize nominated play, Here There Are Blueberries, opened at the Wallis in Beverly Hills. Conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman and co-written by Amanda Gronich, the 90-minute play is a haunting meditation on memory and trauma. The narrative

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Review: Waiting for Godot at the Geffen Playhouse

2024-11-22T00:14:43+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , |

The Geffen Playhouse staged a captivating production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett in association with Gare St Lazare Ireland. Geffen Playhouse Waiting for Godot The two-act tragicomedy, considered one of the most significant English-language plays

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Review: LA Opera’s Madame Butterfly at the Music Center

2024-09-30T02:52:56+00:00By |Categories: Music, Reviews|Tags: , , |

LA Opera at the Music Center opened its 2024/25 season with Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The production uses the original staging of Spanish-Uruguayan director Mario Gas that juxtaposes the Japanese setting onto a 1930’s Hollywood film soundstage.While we get seated, on stage,

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Trombone Shorty, Big Boi, and Danielle Ponder Bring the Heat to the Hollywood Bowl

2024-11-17T11:14:16+00:00By |Categories: Music, Reviews|Tags: , , , |

Earlier this week, Trombone Shorty, Big Boi, and Danielle Ponder delivered an unforgettable performance at the iconic Hollywood Bowl. This eclectic lineup brought together diverse musical styles, creating a night of pure sonic bliss. Trombone Shorty, Big Boi, and Danielle Ponder

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Review: Rachmaninoff and the Tsar at The Broad Stage 

2025-01-21T01:44:54+00:00By |Categories: Music, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , |

I attended a performance of Rachmaninoff And The Tsar at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica starring Pianist/actor/playwright/producer, Hershey Felder and for the first time, a second actor Italian Jonathan Silvestri. The show runs through August 25, 2024.

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Review: The Joffrey Ballet’s Anna Karenina at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

2024-06-26T00:41:28+00:00By |Categories: Dance, Reviews|Tags: , , , |

The Joffrey Ballet presented a visually captivating cinematic production of its award-winning Anna Karenina at The Music Center. The Joffrey Ballet Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Victoria Jaiani Alberto Velazquez; Photo by Cheryl Mann Choreographed by Ukrainian-born Yuri Possokhov, the

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Review: Puccini’s Turandot at the Music Center

2024-05-22T03:54:58+00:00By |Categories: Music, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , |

LA Opera’s presentation of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is musically captivating and visually stunning. Set in ancient China, the tragic opera tells the story of a beautiful but cruel princess named Turandot. She refuses to marry to

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June 21 – 23, 2024: Joffrey Ballet, Anna Karenina at the Music Center

2024-06-26T00:51:18+00:00By |Categories: Dance, Reviews|Tags: , , , |

The Joffrey Ballet is back in LA with the debut of Anna Karenina at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. It is a timeless tale of love and drama as told in Leo Tolstoy’s epic Imperial Russian novel. Performances run June 21 - 23,

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