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Review: A Weekend with Pablo Picasso at The Broad Stage

2024-03-17T19:56:12+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , |

Written and delightfully performed by Herbert Sigüenza, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso takes us into the creative and socially conscious mind of the great artist. It is 1957 in the south of France and Picasso is commissioned to create six paintings

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Review: LA Opera’s Otello at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion

2023-05-22T22:09:21+00:00By |Categories: Music, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

LA Opera’s Music Director James Conlon conducted a vibrant and emotionally charged performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello based on William Shakespeare’s play Othello at the Music Center. Conlon explained in a pre-performance talk that Verdi had evolved away from the traditional

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Review: The Geffen Playhouse, Vinny DePonto “Mindplay”

2022-11-21T02:05:45+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In the intimate setting of the Audey Skirball Kennis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, Vinny DePonto, entertained, engaged and educated an awestruck audience with his solo performance of “Mindplay.” A core component of the show had DePonto relying on randomly selected

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Review: The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, Emily Johnson / Catalyst Being Future Being

2022-09-13T18:30:11+00:00By |Categories: Art Parties / Exhibitions / Fairs, Dance, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Commissioned by BroadStage, Emily Johnson /Catalyst presented the world premier of “Being Future Being,” a highly engaging and multi-dimensional performance piece that integrates movement, story, imagery, ritual, social practice art in the context of  honoring an indigenous perspective to how we

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Review: “Hershey Felder: Chopin in Paris” at The Wallis

2022-07-12T04:06:21+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Hershey Felder is Chopin in Paris! From the moment we are invited into Fryderyk Chopin‘s Paris salon where he gives music lessons by day and performances at night, we are captivated by Felder’s wonderful performance. We, the audience are given a

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Review: King Lear at The Wallis

2022-05-16T18:40:03+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

We take our seats in the Bram Goldsmith Theater as well as in bleachers constructed on the stage that is set with banquet tables. Pillars of video screens on either side of the stage project images of storms, forest fires, tidal

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Review: The Broad Stage, Fran Lebowitz with Larry Wilmore

2024-02-03T02:12:38+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

LA ART PARTY was lucky enough to be able to attend a recent conversation with the always astonishingly witty Fran Lebowitz at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The "evening" (which took place on a Sunday afternoon!) was of course sold out

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Review: Geffen Playhouse, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

2022-05-01T02:57:01+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When mounting an iconic play such as “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf,” by the acclaimed writer Edward Albee, both a fresh perspective or classic approach to the play can make or break it. Any theatre lover will know the plot, how

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Review: Nat Geo Live, The Broad Stage, Photographer Anand Varma

2022-03-21T01:53:08+00:00By |Categories: Art Parties / Exhibitions / Fairs, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Anand Varma engaged us on a fascinating journey that wove together his personal reflections on how he developed his skills and innovative professional practices as a photographer with the captivating stories he created for National Geographic that explore the unseen, to

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Review: Cirque du Soleil’s “OVO”

2022-03-21T02:55:47+00:00By |Categories: Dance, Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Before there was “America’s Got Talent,” there was Cirque du Soleil. Established in 1984, the Montreal troupe revolutionized what a modern “circus” could truly be - giving its talented cast a global stage to shine. Cirque du Soleil’s “OVO” officially opened

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