# Sunday, April 07, 2013

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond

Arts & Entertainment , San Gabriel Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Los Angeles Jewish Symphony

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond A Celebration of the Historic and Contemporary Connections Between African-American and Jewish Music of the Spirit Monday, April 29, 2013, 8:00 pm, Ann & Steve Morgan Auditorium, University of La Verne The program will feature a wide variety of participants,...

6:00 pm - 8:15 pm

THE ANNUAL ALL-NEW ONE-TIME-ONLY NEW YEAR’S EVE MUSICAL REVUE!

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

“One of the Ten Best New Year’s Eve Events in LA” raves LA Weekly. A scrumptious and sumptuous complimentary buffet supper starts off the evening, then it’s “on with the show!” as internationally acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre brings you a highly entertaining, family-friendly...

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Walk Like A Man! The Music of Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: West Coast Performing Arts Presenters
Venue: Historic El Portal Theatre

‘Walk Like A Man’ is the exciting vocal quartet that has been barnstorming America and stunning audiences around the world with their Broadway-Style Musical Revue! If you enjoyed “Jersey Boys,” you’ll love “Walk Like A Man! - a musical revue presented in the heart of the NoHo Arts District at the...

All Day

Mazeltov.com Announces the 2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest “What It Means To Me!”

Events , Agoura
Venue: Internet

2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest - First Prize is a Round-trip ticket on El Al Airlines to Israel (from Los Angeles or New York City) or $1,000! We are asking upcoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah boys and girls to shoot a 2-3 minute short video that expresses what the occasion means to them. We are...

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

“Landscapes”

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: Art Directors Guild
Venue: Gallery 800

The Art Directors Guild Gallery 800 announces the “Landscapes” gallery opening The Art Directors Guild’s (IATSE Local 800) Gallery 800 announces its second art exhibition of 2013, “Landscapes,” opening Saturday, March 24, 2013 with a hosted reception from 3-6:00pm and will run through May 4,...

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

“Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party”

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: SHARE, Inc.
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

The Hollywood Museum’s unique exhibit “Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party” debuts on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m. with a wine and Hors d’Oeuvres reception.  The retrospective explores a series of glamorous Boomtown Events with prestigious celebrities...

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Identity, Protest, and Hope in Israeli Visual Culture

Adult Education , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Examine the expression of different artistic and cultural traditions in Israel today, including their religious, secular, ethnic, historical, and political roots. Because of prohibitions on creating pictorial imagery, traditional Jewish culture was mainly expressed through the literary arts. The...

All Day

Let Me Show You Around:A Project by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Everyone is welcome at the Skirball Cultural Center, yet every encounter is unique, inflected by culture, age, and origin. This is the theme of a new site-specific mural created by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger as part of their Let Me Show You Around project. To create the large-scale wall...

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Stogie Kenyatta’s The World is My Home – THE LIFE OF PAUL ROBESON

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

Powerful and poignant, heartfelt and humorous, and in honor of Paul Robeson’s birthday, Santa Monica Playhouse is proud to present a special limited run of film, television and stage personality Stogie Kenyatta’s acclaimed show about African-American artist-activist Paul Robeson. Robeson –...

8:00 am

THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF “OUR CLASS” BY TADEUSZ SŁOBODZIANEK, IN A VERSION BY RYAN CRAIG

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Son of Semele Ensemble
Venue: Atwater Village Theatre

SON OF SEMELE ENSEMBLE ANNOUNCES THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF “OUR CLASS” BY TADEUSZ SŁOBODZIANEK, IN A VERSION BY RYAN CRAIG OPENING APRIL 6 at THE ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE Inspired by the Jedwabne pogrom a hotly contested, tragic, historic event in Poland in 1941, Our Class chronicles the...

10:00 am

Sinai Temple’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration with Kati Marton

Holidays , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Sinai Temple
Venue: Sinai Temple

Please join us for a morning of insight and reflection with renowned author, Kati Marton, as she discusses fearless and extraordinary individuals who saved lives and changed the world in the time of the Holocaust.  The morning will include insight into her own eyewitness account of her parents’...

10:00 am

Sinai Temple’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration with Kati Marton

Holidays , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Sinai Temple
Venue: Sinai Temple

Please join us for a morning of insight and reflection with renowned author, Kati Marton, as she discusses fearless and extraordinary individuals who saved lives and changed the world in the time of the Holocaust.  The morning will include insight into her own eyewitness account of her parents’...

1:30 pm

Yom Hashoah Day-Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration

Programs , Conejo Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Jewish Genealogical Society of Conejo Valley and Ventura County
Venue: Temple Adat Elohim

The JGSCV will hold a general meeting, co–sponsored with and located at Temple Adat Elohim, on Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:30 p.m-3:30 p.m 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 The Program: Yom Hashoah Day-Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration Each year JGSCV commemorates Yom Hashoah...

3:00 pm

RAISE ME UP - A World Premiere Romantic Comedy

Events , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - Main Stage

Mega-celebrity Martin Short calls it “An unforgettable love story with humor and heart.” Renowned playwright Jerry Mayer echoes, “A comedy with heart you’ll never EVER forget. Fabulous!” It’s Lisa Phillips Visca’s RAISE ME UP - a true story about a “moonstruck” couple’s forbidden...

4:00 pm

SheshBesh: An Israel Bonds/Israel Independence Day Concert for Peace

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Venue: Wilshire Boulevard Temple - Audrey & Sydney Irmas Campus

Recipients of the European Medal of Honour-Prize for Tolerance 2007, SheshBesh embodies two cultures living together in harmony. It is comprised of three members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra alongside four of the finest musicians from Israel’s Arab community. They perform traditional...

4:00 pm

“Tomorrow Never Came”

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Mati (Israeli Cultural Center)
Venue: Sinai Temple

“Tomorrow Never Came” – (Hem Notru Yeladim- in Hebrew) A community Yom Hashoah program: remembering the children of Terezin honoring their lives. The children of Sinai Akiba Academy in collaboration with MATI (Israeli Cultural Center) and sponsored by the IAC created a family oriented...

4:42 pm

Learn Krav Maga

Sports , Los Angeles
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Friends, please come and try a krav maga class as my guest.  This is self defense system of the Israeli military, special forces and anti-terror units. Easy to learn, hard to forget and a fun workout.  Suitable for men and women aged 14 and up.  Class is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 7-8pm....

7:00 pm

Temple Beth Am observes Yom Ha-shoah

Holidays , Pico/Robertson
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Beth Am
Venue: Temple Beth Am

7:00 – 9:00 pm.  Join Temple Beth Am for a touching ceremony where children from our T.B.A community help us honor and remember those who perished in the Shoah.  The program will also feature an intriguing talk with Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff about his new book “FDR and the Holocaust –...

7:30 pm

Jacaranda Music: Benjamin Brittan

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Jacaranda Music
Venue: First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Jacaranda joins the global celebration of Benjamin Britten’s centenary by devoting its current season’s final three concerts to a broad survey of Britten’s music. April 7’s concert takes its theme from February House, the storied Brooklyn residence where Britten and his partner, tenor Peter...

8:00 pm

Sexsting

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Katselas Theatre Company
Venue: The Skylight Theatre

Winning a Guthrie Theatre commission, and chosen for development by The Katselas Theatre Company’s INKubator program, the West Coast Premiere of SEXSTING is the inaugural production for KTC’s 2013 season. Opening at the popular Skylight Theatre Complex on February 23rd, the stellar cast...

8:00 pm

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Antaeus Company
Venue: Deaf West Theater

Antaeus, L.A.’s classical theater ensemble, presents a fully double-cast production of George Bernard Shaw’s penetrating and entertaining look at mothers, daughters and the idea of a “woman’s place.” Mrs. Warren has worked hard to provide a good life for her daughter. But when Vivie finds...

8:00 pm

Tomorrow

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Katselas Theatre Company
Venue: The Skylight Theatre

Now at the forefront of play development and producing new works, three award-winning theaters are joining forces for the first time. The beneficiary will be the Los Angeles theatre audience who will see the World Premiere staging of Donald Freed’s new play, Tomorrow. Damian Cruden (Artistic...

8:00 pm

On the Spectrum

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Fountain Theatre
Venue: The Fountain Theatre

The West Coast premiere of a funny, touching and unconventional love story between two young people with autism Mac has Asperger’s. Iris is autistic. In Ken LaZebnik’s award-winning play, an online e-chat blossoms into a heartfelt courtship. Winner of the 2012 Steinberg/American Theatre...

8:00 pm

Master Class

Arts & Entertainment , Long Beach
Organizations/Sponsors: International City Theatre
Venue: International City Theatre

Internationally renowned soprano Maria Callas had a legendary voice and an equally legendary life as one of the world’s most celebrated—and gossiped-about—opera stars. In 1971, Callas taught a series of master classes at Juilliard. Outspoken in her artistic beliefs and uncompromising in the...

8:00 pm

Billy & Ray

Arts & Entertainment , Burbank
Organizations/Sponsors: Falcon Theatre
Venue: Falcon Theatre

The world premiere of Billy & Ray tells the incredible true story of how Billy Wilder (Kevin Blake) and Raymond Chandler (Shaun O’Hagan) wrote the screenplay for Double Indemnity, invented film noir and nearly killed each other in the process. Set in Hollywood in the 1940’s, Paramount producer...

8:00 pm

Years to the Day

Arts & Entertainment , Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: Katselas Theatre Company
Venue: Beverly Hills Playhouse

These days, we hang on to people and friendships through the impressions we get from their online profiles. Yet, over the years, people seldom share any deep and personal changes through social media. Allen Barton explores the collision of these relationships in his WORLD PREMIERE dark comedy YEARS...