Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Starting on Saturday, April 9, the Echo Theatre Company, based in the Atwater Village Theatre, presents the West Coast premiere of Dry Land, a play by newcomer Ruby Rae Spiegel that has critics and audiences across the U.S. abuzz. Alana Dietze directs Connor … Read More
The Academy of Visual and Performing Arts of Culver City High School returns to the boards this weekend and next. On the Town, the hit Broadway musical, will be the vehicle for the AVPA’s Blurred Vision Theatre Company at the Robert Frost Theatre. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 and Sunday at 2. On the weekend of March … Read More
High finance, family dysfunction, death and laughs. The world premiere of “Dinner at Home between Deaths,” a pitch-black comedy by Andrea Lepcio, directed by Stuart Ross and presented by Indie Chi Productions, opens as a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre on Saturday, April 2. Inspired by the Bernie Madoff scandal and other Ponzi schemes before and since, Lepcio’s comedy … Read More
Further casting has been announced for Samuel Beckett’s masterful “Endgame,” directed by one of Beckett’s most celebrated interpreters, Alan Mandell, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, April 24 through May 22. The formal opening is May 1. Mandell (“Waiting for Godot,” “The Price” and “The Cherry Orchard,” all at the Mark Taper Forum) will perform at the Douglas with Barry McGovern … Read More
The team at MoviePass is made up of movie diehards. We love that we make it easier for people like us to see more movies in theaters. For the Academy Awards, the biggest movie event of the year on Sunday night, we are holding the ultimate Oscar pool to reward the biggest cinephiles out there. We’re calling it #OscarsWithMoviePass. All you need to … Read More
[Editor’s Note: Our Thursday essayist Mike Hennessey discovered this slyly witty reflection.] I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. * I don’t have to go to school or work. * I get an allowance every month. * I have my own pad. * I don’t have a curfew. … Read More
[Editor’s Note: Culver City’s honorary poetess laureate addressed the City Council last evening.] Last Friday, our Culver City Julian Dixon Library was officially reopened after a full year of renovation. It was quite a celebration. Thanks were given to many by Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, including the library staff led by Laura Frakes, the Mayme Clayton Museum & … Read More
Review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If there’s one pop-culture infection that has spared me so far, it’s the zombie craze. There have been some compelling films deploying those undead cannibals against the overwhelmed living, notably 28 Days Later and World War Z. But for the most part I’ve never quite understood the appeal of that particular subgenre of … Read More
New American Theatre artistic director Jack Stehlin stars as Prospero in “Tempest Redux,” a derivation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which opens a seven-week run on Saturday, Feb, 20 at the Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and the New American Theatre celebrate El Niño with a perfect storm of comedy, romance, mystery and magic, featuring … Read More
On Saturday afternoon March 12, audiences are invited to sing along at a tribute to the late singer/songwriter and activist Pete Seeger — “The Songs and Spirit of Pete Seeger” — in what has become an annual tradition at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. The day will spotlight Geer family singers Peter Alsop, Ellen Geer, Melora Marshall, Willow Geer, Earnestine … Read More
