Actor Darryl Maximilian Robinson, last seen in the Greater Los Angeles area as The Narrator and The Mysterious Man in the December 2014 Burbank Community Theatre production of “Into the Woods,” returns to the stage this month in “Impromptu” at the Lincoln Stegman theatre, 6020 Radford Ave., North Hollywood. Impromptu will be performed Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2, … Read More
What Do Laureates Talk About?
Dr. Hoult, with Mr. Herrera
The accompanying photo was taken last Thursday at California State University, Los Angeles, where I am a professor emerita. Dr. Lauri Ramey, a professor of English and director of the CSULA Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, has had Juan Felipe Herrera, the current U.S. poet laureate, as a member of her advisory board for many years. I will be working with … Read More
53, 54, 55 Years of Wedded Bliss
[Editor’s Note: When Culver City’s poetess laureate and her husband Charley were invited to a 50th wedding anniversary celebration in 2014, she penned this poem – bolstered by annual additions.] My husband has been married Longer than our friends It’s just that his first marriages All came to different ends His first one lasted for twelve years His … Read More
Thanks to Our Brave Officers – and Ricky
Charley and Dr. Janet Hoult
[Editor’s Note: After last week’s daring attempted robbery of the One West Bank, Raintree Plaza, the Honorary Poetess Laureate of Culver City rhythmically flashed back to the moment, as is her custom.] After Police Chief Scott Bixby described what happened at last evening’s City Council meeting, including the actions of local citizens, I decided I need to add a … Read More
When Justice Isn’t Just
“When Justice Isn’t Just,” a documentary dealing with racial inequality and political manipulation of the judicial system, will be screened — free – on Monday evening at 7 at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum, 4130 Overland Ave., Culver City. The Mayme Clayton presents this monthly program in association with the BADWest St. Clair Bourne 4th Monday series. The film … Read More
A Jazzy AVPA Weekend
In three special performances, Culver City High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts program will present Jazz Cabaret: Two Acts, Two Spaces, One Jazzy Night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The first half of the program will take place in the Robert Frost Auditorium on campus. Featured vocalists will perform big-band hits like Moondance, The Lady is a Tramp … Read More
Are You Old Enough to Remember Groucho?
Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup"
Second in a series. Re: “Frankly, My Dear, You Look Like Groucho” [Editor’s Note: Who, in Newspaperland, is old enough to remember Groucho Marx from his radio and television show, You Bet Your Life (1947-1961)? One of Us and the Other of Us entered the legendary 92-year-old Pasadena Playhouse last Saturday evening for a lifetime-scale performance, Frank Ferrante, in his … Read More
For Bean Counters, Orson Is Back
Orson Bean
Pacific Resident Theatre of Venice is extending raconteur Orson Bean’s one-man show until March 13. “Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean,” which opens on Friday, Jan, 22, at 703 Venice Blvd., Venice, will run on Fridays and Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 3. An undisputed triple threat, Mr. Bean has become a familiar name in entertainment to families … Read More
Star Wars: The Fandom Menace
[Editor’s Note: In this feature-length essay, the Page’s Resident Art Critic discusses Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the context of the controversial prequel trilogy and George Lucas’s decision to sell Lucasfilm to Disney.] Let’s at least be honest and recognize Star Wars: The Force Awakens for what it is: Fan fiction. After the prequel trilogy failed to ignite the shining … Read More
‘Brief’ Will Grow Longer
John Mortimer...English stage and screen writer John Mortimer, creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, sits barefoot in the garden, circa 1985. (Photo by Gemma Levine/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The award-winning Pacific Resident Theatre is is extending the performance schedule for legendary John Mortimer’s The Dock Brief through Sunday, Jan. 24. In Brief, an unsuccessful barrister has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. Overjoyed when he is assigned to defend an innocuous little man accused of murdering his wife, finally, he will have his chance. However, … Read More