A&E Articles

On Saturday evening at 8, the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, celebrating its 30th season, will host opening night of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams. The Williams classic runs through Aug, 14. Stagings will be at 8 Thursdays through Saturdays, with 3 o’clock Sunday matinees at the theatre, 703 Venice Blvd. Dana Jackson directs a cast that … Read More

On Saturday evening, the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and conductor Frank Fetta present the Sounds of Downtown concert at 7:30 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Here is the program: Philip Glass: Arioso, No. 2 Clare Glackin: Concertino for Soprano Saxophone and Strings-Premiere Performance Gustav Holst: St. Paul’s Suite Samuel Barber: Canzonetta for Soprano Saxophone and Strings Béla Bartók: Romanian Dances … Read More

Dateline Long Beach – On Saturday and Sunday, the Long Beach Bayou Festival will be staged at Rainbow Lagoon Park on East. Shoreline Drive. The all-day celebration will run from 11 to 9 on Saturday and 11 to 7:30 on Sunday. Ten thousand people are expected to attend this extravaganza. Radio Station KLOS, 95.5 (Breakfast with the Beatles) and LA … Read More

Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, founded in 1996, celebrates two decades of creating art and changing lives Saturday evening at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Java Gala, the annual benefit for the AVPA Foundation, will kick off a 6:30 reception and curtain at 8. This will launch a year-long tribute to one of the most unique … Read More

Two evenings of spring concerts are coming up the next two Fridays by the Academy of Visual Arts Music Dept. of Culver City High School. Friday, May 20, 7pm, Robert Frost Auditorium This week’s 7 o’clock showcase at the Robert Frost Auditorium by the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts features the orchestra, Chamber Music ensembles, Chamber Singers, and the … Read More

The Music Dept. of the Academy of Visual Arts at Culver City High School will present two spring concerts thus month. Friday, May 20, 7 o’clock, Robert Frost Auditorium This night’s showcase of AVPA music includes the Orchestra, Chamber Music ensembles, Chamber Singers, and the Jazz Combo. The Chamber Singers will perform a repertoire from their L. A. Master Chorale … Read More

Review of The Superhero and his Charming Wife on stage at the Highways Performance Space @ 18th Street St. Arts Center.  Interpretative dance, moving platforms with gymnastics, video backgrounds, crafty props – these elements form the raw materials of writer/director Aaron Hendry and Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble’s imaginative and exuberant theatrical experience, The Superhero and his Charming Wife. But be … Read More

[Editor’s Note: A preview of the presentation Dr. Hoult, Culver City’s Honorary Artist Laureate for Poetry, will make at this evening’s 7 o’clock City Council meeting.]  Honorable Mayor O’Leary, incoming, outgoing and continuing City Councilmembers. Congratulations and thanks to you all… To recognize the election of our City Council, the upcoming Car Show, the end of National Poetry Month, and … Read More

This week’s spring performance of the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts’ Danger Zone Dance Company will be a poignant tribute to the Robert Frost Auditorium at Culver City High School, a 1964 architectural icon that will soon close its doors for an extensive renovation. The program will be jam-packed with original dances that are thrilling, thought-provoking, humorous and touching, … Read More

Twenty-six visual art students from the Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts have been exploring the art form of ceramics, and their work will go on display Saturday, one day only, at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in mid-Wilshire. During an eight-week program sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment, AVPA art students are participating in an … Read More