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Review: Cirque du Soleil’s “Volta”

2022-02-05T20:35:56+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Cirque du Soleil has inspired a movement. Leading the trend of high quality entertainment since it burst onto the scene in 1984, the Montreal troupe has set a high bar. Dance companies across the country and popular network tv variety shows

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Review: American Standard: A Story of Enough

2020-01-26T22:18:17+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A story of healing unfolded at Highway's performance space in Santa Monica. Opening on September 19, 2019, the one-woman show entitled American Standard: A Story of Enough stars Lilly Bright, and is directed by Valerie Hager. It is an autobiographical memoir

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Event Review: Hippie Woman Wild Book Launch

2020-02-20T10:06:12+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Written by Lisa Robins  - "Why did a not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama School during the Vietnam protests, abandon her acting dream to follow the man she loved to an off-the-grid commune in Oregon?" Carol Schlanger, author of Hippie

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Review: “On Beckett” at the Kirk Douglas Theater

2020-02-14T21:28:41+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Do not shy away from seeing Bill Irwin's "On Beckett" if you feel lacking in your knowledge of the literary master's work. Irwin acknowledges that he is not a scholar nor has he read all of Beckett's literary output; rather he

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Review: C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert at The Broad Stage

2024-02-03T04:10:46+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert is a one-man play written, performed and co-directed by Max McLean at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Produced and co-directed by Ken Denison, McLean portrays C. S. Lewis, the much adored British author

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Event Review: “Stand Up for Beyond Baroque”

2022-11-22T05:41:04+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center put on a rousing evening of comedy on January 21 at the Hotel Erwin in Venice as a fundraiser to help pay for very needed and high priority repair to their building's roof. "Stand Up for

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Review: A PARIS LOVE STORY, Hershey Felder, the Wallis

2020-02-14T21:41:12+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A PARIS LOVE STORY, is Felder's love for Paris, the love for his mother and his love for Debussy's music. I'm already a huge fan of Hershey Felder having seen his productions of the life of George Gershwin and Ludwig van

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Film Review: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck at Sundance 2015!

2022-08-22T19:59:29+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Written by An Bar Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2015 DIRECTOR: Brett Morgen Film Review by Anya Baroff Photos: Kayte Methven See image: Courtney Love; Director, Frances Bean Cobain; Director, Brett Morgen; Producer, Francis Bean Cobain,

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Review: Pasadena Playhouse, Good Boys

2020-02-14T21:39:54+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Good Boys at the Pasadena Playhouse is a probing and psychological drama about what happens in and around a private, prestigious Jesuit prep school for boys, Saint Joseph’s Prep in the Washington, DC suburbs in 1988. Though the play, written by

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Review: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at the Garry Marshall Theatre

2020-01-26T22:59:51+00:00By |Categories: Reviews, Theater/Poetry/Books|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On May 15, 2019, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson opened at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Burbank. The stage was set to recreate the final gig of Billie Holiday at the Emerson Bar and Grill in

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