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September 29, 2023

â€˜Every Brilliant Thingâ€™ IS Brilliant

There have been hundreds of staged iterations of Duncan McMillan and Jonny Donahoeâ€™s play, Every Brilliant Thing, which began life as a short story then morphed into a movie ... (Read More)

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September 1, 2023

Heirloom Purity

Four companies control 60% of global proprietary seed sales. â€œHeirloom seeds with a story, rooted in a place and time,â€ belong to the people.â€ For thos ... (Read More)

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August 18, 2023

Kaleidoscopic Music

A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with a number of mirrors that reflect whatâ€™s being viewed in a multiplicity of ever-shifting planes, shapes and colors ... (Read More)

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August 18, 2023

â€˜Sing Out! for LGBTQ+ Rightsâ€™ at the Theatricum on Aug. 23

Tret Fure, Peter Alsop, and Emmaâ€™s Revolution will perform a benefit concert for the Human Rights Campaign to battle anti-LGBTQ+ legislation! The Human Rig ... (Read More)

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By Annemarie Donkin

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Photographic Beauty

If it hadnâ€™t been for an offer of a jar of â€œQuarantinaraâ€ (a tomato marinara sauce he canned during the pandemic) in exchange for a donation to a non-prof ... (Read More)

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Bernardo Cubriaâ€™s Latest Play: â€˜Crabs in a Bucketâ€™

Topanga playwright Bernardo Cubria jokes that heâ€™s part of the One Percentâ€¦ but itâ€™s not the one youâ€™re thinking. This Mexican-born, U.S.-raised Top ... (Read More)

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Two LA Firsts: A Transparent Musical and â€˜Keith Haring: Art is for Everyoneâ€™

When a musical is as culturally ground-breaking as A Transparent Musical (onstage at the Mark Taper Forum until June 25), itâ€™s hard to be overly critical. In ... (Read More)

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â€˜1776: The Musicalâ€™ and â€˜Secret Conversationsâ€™

â€˜1776: The Musicalâ€™ and â€˜Secret Conversationsâ€™ 1776: The Musical, now onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center through May 7, is a rev ... (Read More)

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Has Anything Changed?

I never thought that a solo act by one of the most extraordinary theatrical documentarian/performers of our time, Anna Deavere Smith, could be successfully revi ... (Read More)

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THE BRAID: No Jewish Story Untold

Female, male, gay, non-binary, trans, black, Latino, Chinese, Persian: what do they have in common? At The Braid (formerly Jewish Womenâ€™s Theatreâ€”JWT) theyâ ... (Read More)

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Good Theater but One is Sublime

Sublime is the only word I can use to describe the revival of the beloved musical, The Secret Garden onstage now through March 26 at the Ahmanson Theatre. Bless ... (Read More)

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So Much Art to See, So Little Time, So Good!

Sometimes I will report on events after theyâ€™ve happened, due to production schedules, but theyâ€™re worth knowing about for the next time around. Kristi ... (Read More)

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Curtains Rising: Theatre Roundup

Live theatre is back, big time, on stages large and small. Hereâ€™s a roundup of just a few of the many productions taking place this month and beyond across th ... (Read More)

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Art in Service of the Spiritual

The rain closed down the gallery last weekend but you still have time to see works by local artists celebrating natureâ€™s gifts at Topanga Canyon Gallery throu ... (Read More)

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One for the Money, Two for the Show...

The tale goes that on a November night in 1970, the co-founder of one of the most successful vocal groups of all time, The Temptations, walked out after the fir ... (Read More)

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Non-Holiday Gifts, Maybe for Yourself

A play, an Academy Award press screening, and a film festival at MOMA are all good escapes from the holiday frenzy. What happens when a former prisoner tries ... (Read More)

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