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Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. On April 26, living legend Jon Anderson, former lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of Yes will be treating his adoring fans to his distinctive vocal excellence, one of the most recognizable voices in the history of music. Anderson was the author and a major creative influence behind the ground-breaking album 'Fragile' as well as the series of epic, complex pieces such as "Awaken," "Gates of...
Reflecting a fast-evolving world of modern and personalized storytelling beyond the traditional book form, multimedia software provider will be at the University of Southern California (USC) and debut its first interactive pop-up museum at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 13 and April 14, 2019. Themed "#InstaArt: Create Your LA Story," the museum is a free, interactive, customizable photo booth and exhibit. It is aimed at inspiring digital artists, photographers, visual...
Saturday night saw a glamorous start to Culver City Public Theatre's brand new season of three shows, with a red carpet premiere of "The Wonderful World of Dissocia" by British playwright Anthony Neilson & presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The show, created by award winning director Nicola Henry, who is also the company President, played to a sold out audience at the FanaticSalon Theatre in Culver City. The play, originally borne from an improvisation workshop by...
A ferociously dark and hilarious new comedy by award-winning playwright John Bunzel (63 Trillion, Death of a Buick). When a famous writer dies under mysterious circumstances, family and friends gather in his cabin on a remote island in the Puget Sound to box up his belongings. As they go through the clutter dad left behind, hidden family secrets come to light — and they come to realize just how much they both despise and love one another. The play will be performed on April 26 thru June 2: Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., and 3 Sundays at 3 p...
Baroque orchestra, Kontrapunktus, will be returning to Culver City for the second time this spring with its new classical music production, Il Barocco. The concert will be held at Seventh-Day Adventist Church on May 4th and begins at 7:30 PM. The church is located at 11828 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, 90066. Admission is open to the public and parking is free. For more information, please call (310) 382-0300 or visit their website at www.kontrapunktus.com Il Barocco celebrates the influence that acclaimed Italian Baroque composers (a.k.a....
Grace Lutheran Church's April MidDay Music Jazz Concert will take place on Thursday, April 11 in the Church Sanctuary at 12:05 p.m. Featured will be Alison Lewis and Mahesh Balasooriya. Singer Alison Lewis has appeared at venues ranging from Skirball Museum in Los Angeles to Lincoln Center in New York and has shared the stage with such notables as Michael Franti and Patti Austin. She has performed/toured as a soloist and ensemble member with classical choirs, world music a cappella groups, jazz...
Kentwood Players will present 12 ANGRY WOMEN, A national play reading of Reginald Rose’s Drama, 12 Angry Men on Saturday, April 6th at 2pm. Performances take place at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester, CA 90045. The production is directed by Melodie S. Rivers and produced by Lynn Gutstadt for Kentwood Players participation in a national play reading event and by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing Company. Featured in the cast in alphabetical order are Rhonda Angela Bruce, Wendy Colón, Ariella Sa...
Author Robert Inman discusses and signs An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 26 at Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232. Since its first publication by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1965, this seminal vade mecum of Los Angeles architecture has explored every rich potency of the often relentless, but sometimes-as the authors have captured here-relenting L.A. cityscape. Revised extensively and updated rigorously since its fifth...
Rising visual artist, Chase Metoyer, 17, has dreams of a career in fine arts and plans to inspire and educate future artists. On Monday, January 21, the Culver City High School senior was recognized and awarded the 2019 Saul Morrison award by the Westside Coalition for her art interpretation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, Six Concepts of Nonviolence, at the 34th Annual Celebration of Rev. Dr. King Jr., at the SGI-USA World Peace Ikeda Auditorium, in Santa Monica. Chase contemplated the concept and created a piece she felt represented the t...
Four Los Angeles-area cantors will be featured at the March MidDay at Grace Concert on Thursday, March 14 at noon. Cantors Jay Frailich, Lonee Frailich, Bryce Megdal and Rebekah Mirsky will perform an eclectic mix of original compositions, Jewish music, and Broadway favorites. Cantor Jay Frailich was invested as a cantor by the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and was at the University Synagogue for 40 years. He is now the emeritus cantor there and teaches at the Academy of Jewish Religion. Cantor Lonee Frailich,...
Four concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the The Canyon: Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, The Rose in Pasadena , and Santa Clarita in the month of March. On March 9 at the Saban Theatre, the esteemed Canadian folk-music legend Gordon Lightfoot, with over 50 years in the music business, and now on his "80 Years Strong Tour" will be treating his adoring fans to his poetic songwriting and vocal excellence. He resides with some very exclusive company atop the list of all-time greats...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for PIPPIN, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hirson, on Saturday, March 16 from 12:00pm to 3:00pm and Sunday, March 17 from 6:00 to 9:00pm. Callbacks will be held on Monday, March 18 at 7:00 by appointment only. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Alison Boole, Music direction by Catherine Rahm and produced by Lyndsay and Jeremy Palmer for Kentwood Players under special arrangement with Music Theatre International....
On opening night, British director and choreographer Matthew Bourne put his spin on the classic fairy tale, Cinderella, which took the stage at the Ahmanson Theatre. Bourne's reworking, and score by Sergei Prokofiev, has the story set in World War II where Cinderella creates a wartime romance with a dashing young RAF pilot (her prince). The performance is divided into three Acts...the first being a frenetic London Blitz which has Cinderella and her family chaotically swirling around in a...
"Timothea Stewart's paintings exude light-filled energy that touches many dimensions in us. She is a remarkable talent," said Arianna Huffington, style setter, co-founder of Huffington Post and founder of Thrive Global. Stewart is an L.A. native, whose work was recently seen at the Robert Graham Studio in Culver City. She grew up in Los Angeles influenced by her father Bart Lytton, a passionate patron of the arts. Lytton founded Lytton Savings and Loans, one of the largest banks of its day and...
Larger-than-life actor Brian Dennehy, 80 years of age, knocked it out of the park as he accepted the challenge of two roles in two different plays during the same performance at Geffen Playhouse on Sunday. He was Erie Smith in Eugene O'Neill's play Hughie and then after intermission tackled the role of Krapp in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. It was a privilege to witness Dennehy, a living legend, up close in an intimate 120-seat Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre. He is a giant of film and...
What do you get when three unique museums, all within two blocks of each other, join forces to present free tours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 9 as the kick-off event of the Culver City Cultural Corridor? That's easy – an enlightening, inspiring and enjoyable experience to remember, thanks to its sponsors: Advocates of The Culver City Cultural Corridor and the Culver City Arts Foundation. The Cultural Corridor is a 1.4 mile stretch centered along Culver Blvd. and anchored in the east by the t...
Los Angeles Ballet kicked off their 2018-19 season at Royce Hall performing a program with three different scenes called "Modern Moves." Aszure Barton's "Les Chambres des Jacques," Alejandro Cerrudo's "Lickety-Split," and George Balanchine's 1954 classic "Western Symphony." LA Ballet ventured into unchartered waters, taking a road not usually taken by performing more contemporary modern pieces. The first piece is Les Chambres with unconventional choreography and anomalous music -- Vigneault,...
By Catherine Hammons A Kid Scoop Media Mentor Correspondent One of the first things I noticed as I approached the Robert Frost Auditorium was the sense of anticipation. It felt as though those of us were in the audience were getting ready to hear the band that defined our youth play. For some, it might have been the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, for others Jimi Hendrix, and still others Pearl Jam or Prince. In other words, there was a sense of shared experience, a feeling of youthful passion...
The dancers of Diavolo, based in Los Angeles, brought their Architecture in Motion dance performance to the Ahmanson Theatre on Sunday. A spectacular acrobatic-movement spectacle that is the dream of founder and artistic director French native Jacques Heim. It's a combination of contemporary dance, martial arts, acrobatics, gymnastics and hip-hop with the utilization of large, creative stage props. There were two different scenes: Voyage, the west coast premiere, and after intermission,...
The program will include the following; Johann Sebastian Bach, Keyboard Concerto, d minor, BWV 1052; Wolfgang Mozart, Piano Concerto, C Major; and Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3,“Scottish”(1841-42). On April 8, 1789, Mozart, accompanied by his friend, Prince Karl Lichnowsky, set off for a two month trip from Vienna to northern Germany, including the cultural capitals of Berlin and Dresden. The trip was for Mozart to present himself, and his music, in concerts, in search of patrons, future concerts, and to improve his financial sit...
Author: Steven Lieberman The Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) kicked off their 2018-19 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, their 55th, on Saturday with two epic compositions that rocketed the audience to the next dimension: Shawn Kirchner's "Songs of Ascent" and Mozart's "Requiem." Artistic Director and Conductor Grant Gershon was very wise in laying the foundation with these two masterpieces which will be sturdy enough to build the rest of the season on. In the first half, Kirchner warmed up...
By Spencer Lee, Age 11 Special from KidScoop Media I recently saw the musical "Hamilton" on Broadway in New York City. I fell in love with this musical since I first heard the soundtrack a year ago. I immediately thought that [show creator and star] Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as the cast and crew behind Hamilton, were geniuses. With the smart and catchy hip-hop lyrics, along with stunning vocals. Hamilton truly is a revolutionary creation that deserves a million standing ovations. I traveled...
To honor the memory of the late, great superstar singer and guitarist Glen Campbell, his chief Grammy-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb, and his youngest banjo-strumming rising country star daughter Ashley Campbell will be appearing together at Smothers theatre on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu on Saturday, September 22. In June of 2011, Glen announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six months earlier and decided to go on a farewell tour to say goodbye to all of...
Peter Cetera, former front man, lead singer and the "Voice of Chicago," treated a crowd of 1,200 fans to a great concert at Hyatt Regency Newport Beach amphitheater. After leaving Chicago in 1985, Cetera tore-off the rear-view mirror and never looked back. His career skyrocketed to the next dimension when he went solo. The charismatic stage performer and Grammy Award-winner sang all of his big hits with his distinctive and unmistakable golden tenor voice. He also is famous for not only being...
The popular Beatles tribute group “4 Lads from Liverpool” will close Culver City’s annual Boulevard Music Summer Festival Thursday, Aug. 16, in the Courtyard of City Hall. The concert begins at 7 p.m. Admission is free. The 4 Lads are considered among the best Beatles tribute bands in the nation. Its typical songs range from the days that the Beatles got started in the late 1950s to the day when they broke-up in 1970....
