Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Elfman circles back to the circus
by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer
Danny Elfman is a huge success, but he doesn't want you to know it. Humility is a hard thing to hang your hat on when you've accumulated four. . .
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
A woman’s world?
By Danielle Berrin
It’s hard to tell, what with the requisite girdles, supervised weigh-ins and protocol panty hose (“not too dark; this isn’t a cabaret”), that. . .
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
How L.A. grew its own art
By Tom Teicholz
For those of us who are not native to Los Angeles yet live here (some for more of our lives than anywhere else), there is a compulsion to define Los. . .
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The romanticism of Matt Nathanson
By Ryan Torok
Pop-folkie Matt Nathanson had just returned from hanging in Hawaii, but it was a vacation he only enjoyed “50 percent,” he said.. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Fall Preview Calendar 2010: September-November
By Ryan Torok
“Fight Club” director David Fincher charts the rise of Facebook, casting Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard undergraduate wunderkind. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sex, lies and social networking: A season of new films
by Iris Mann, contributing writer
Jewish “bad boys,” an alleged cover-up by our government and the outing of an American female spy are among the themes highlighted in this. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
A new Holocaust museum pushes toward the future
By Jonah Lowenfeld
When the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust officially opens in its new home in Pan Pacific Park on Oct. 14, it won’t just be moving to a bigger,. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
A mirror on the haunted self
By Naomi Pfefferman
Just weeks before she graduated from Yale University in May 1959, Eva Hesse — a child survivor of the Holocaust who would become renowned for her. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
A hip-hop, Shakespearean, operatic ‘Venice’
By Naomi Pfefferman
Matt Sax, the baby-faced composer-performer whose new show, “Venice,” was dubbed “the year’s best musical” by Time magazine, has a. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Is Los Angeles ready for its dose of “Law & Order”?
Following last year’s cancellation of the original New York version of the series after a venerable 20-year run — a record matched in drama only. . .
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
’Neshoba’ probes truth behind 1964 civil rights slaying
By Tom Tugend
On June 21, during the Freedom Summer of 1964, two young Jews from New York and an African American from Mississippi were murdered while on a mission. . .
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Fall Season Promises a Potpourri of Films
by Iris Mann, Contributing Writer
Summer seems to have flown by, and, with fall approaching, it is once more time to examine some upcoming films of interest. Movie critic Emanuel. . .
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
‘Parade’ Takes a Second Turn
By Naomi Pfefferman
When the Donmar Warehouse production of “Parade” opens at the Mark Taper Forum on Oct. 4, starring T.R. Knight, it will mark the musical’s. . .
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Schwartz’s first opera a dark ‘Séance’
by Steven Rosen and Naomi Pfefferman
Long before his enormous success with “Wicked” and “Godspell,” composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz studied classical music in college and. . .
Friday, August 28, 2009
A certain magic
by Naomi Levy
Chasidic reggae and rap singer Matisyahu just released his fourth album, “Light” — his first full-length work in three years. He discussed his. . .
