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If you're a parent, or someone who's grown up from the elementary school aged to teen/tween years within the past 20 years, you've heard of CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS. Written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey and first published in 1997, the CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS series now includes 12 books, and three spin-offs with 70 million books sold worldwide (including 50 million in the United States alone) and translation into 20 languages. And now Dreamworks Animation brings us CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC...
It's been far too long since Goldie Hawn graced the silver screen which, in and of itself, makes SNATCHED a welcome addition to this weekend's movie-going. But add the direction of Jonathan Levine and comedic antics of Amy Schumer and SNATCHED bodes well for an entertaining few hours of laughter in this mother-daughter caper of epic proportion. In spite of a lackluster script by Katie Dippold, which often feels like ideas were just thrown against the computer screen and whatever stuck was incorp...
It's that time again! Time for the LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL. And what a festival 2017 should prove to be! Returning for the second year to its latest home base in the Heart of Screenland - Culver City - and running from June 14th through 22nd, filmmakers and fans alike will once again be blanketed by some of the richest history cinema has to offer, starting with the festival's storied location. Adding an even greater element of cinematic magic to the proceedings is that Culver City is currently...
On the first night of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl, Dead & Company had a chemistry that was palpable. As soon as founding Grateful Dead member Bob Weir started singing "Shakedown Street," the first song of the concert, audience members knew that they were in for a treat and a night filled with magic. Two other founding members on drums, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, got help from John Mayer on lead guitar and vocals, Jeff Chimenti on keyboards, and Oteil Burbridge on bass. I have a...
Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at TheRose in Pasadena and the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills in the month of June. On June 16 at The Rose, the esteemed Canadian folk-music legend Gordon Lightfoot, with 50 years in the music business, 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 having recorded 20 albums with five Grammy nominations. His songs, airing regularly for...
Sam Elliott. The minute you hear the name an indelible image appears in your mind. The now silver moustache, the loose finger-ready hair, a tall lanky physique, the languid deep slightly graveled voice, a slow deliberate cowboy swagger. Since 1969, Sam Elliott has graced the big and small screens, from episodic television one-offs to his first film role in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. He has played everything from bikers to hippies to military legends to cowboys in films like “Mask”, “L...
proceed on their mission to Origae-6 or locate the source of the signal? Needless to say, they optto locate the signal and then, on discovering it is coming from a planet much closer to them than six-years out, decide to go to the surface and investigate. With the Covenant’s pilot Tennessee and a few other crew left on the Covenant, Christopher, Faris (Tennessee’s wife), Daniels, Lope, and Walter, along with a few others head down to the planet. Suspiciously, a space storm separates the Cov...
Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at The Rose in Pasadena and the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills in the month of June. On June 16 at The Rose, the esteemed Canadian folk-music legend Gordon Lightfoot, with 50 years in the music business, 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 having recorded 20 albums with five Grammy nominations. His songs, airing regularly for...
he Culver City Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2016-17 Season with aconcert, Sounds of Downtown, Saturday, June 10 at 7:30 pm., with the orchestra returning to the intimate and beautiful Kirk Douglas Theatre, Downtown Culver City, 9820 Washington. There is free parking underneath City Hall, behind the theatre, entrance from Duquesne. Americans, and Music From (The Time Of) HamiltonFounding Father Alexander Hamilton (Jan. 11, 1757-Jul. 12, 1804), was acontemporary of the two Classical Period...
Santa Monica’s New Roads School has been honored with five nominations for the acclaimed Jerry Herman Awards for its Spring 2017 middle and high school musical, In the Heights. These nominations recognize the New Roads production as one of the best secondary school musical theater productions in Los Angeles. New Roads’ nominations include:Best ProductionBest Supporting Actress – Julia Malinow (Daniela)“No Small Parts” Award – Caleb McGee (Piragua Guy)Best Staging and ChoreographyBest Musical Direction The Jerry Herman Awards celebra...
The prospect ofan openly gay, boxer-drag queen in a closeted Alaskan town seems doubtful. Seems doubtful, that is, until one steps into the world ofDzAlaska Is a Dragdz, written and directed by Shaz Bennett. Reckoning two (seemingly contrary) halves of flamboyancy, Bennett overlooks surface differences to connect boxing and drag performance for their core commonality: audacity. Relating bold swings to fierce shimmies and more, DzAlaska Is a Dragdz comments on self-identity and human relationships. Bennett weaves a narrative both admirably origi...
Joseph Calleja, the Grammy-nominated Maltese tenor, traveled to the Broad Stage in Santa Monica and showed the audience why he has one of the very best voices in opera right now as he celebrated the musical life of Mario Lanza with a full orchestra led by Maestro Jader Bignamini.Blessed with a golden-age voice, he is compared to famous singers from earlier eras like Jussi Bjorling and Enrico Caruso. He has quickly become one of the most acclaimed and sought-after tenors today and has made...
Not only did the Verdi Chorus present their spring concerts entitled "All's Fair in Love and War," but they also presented the inaugural and long-awaited concerts featuring The Walter Fox Singers, thirteen section leaders that were given the opportunity to showcase their talent in a show called "A Salute To Young Love." Both presentations were a smashing success and held at the acoustically-sound First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. Their Founding Artistic Director/Conductor Anne...
The screening will be followed by a conversation with award-winning journalist Bill Moyers and Academy Award winner Tim Robbins on Monday, May 15The Actors’ Gang Theater is hosting a special benefit screening of Rikers: An American Jail, on Monday, May 15 at 8 pm at The Actors’ Gang Theater in Culver City. A conversation with award-winning journalist Bill Moyers, who oversaw the documentary, Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins, and Chris Bisbano, a former Prison Project student, will follow the screening. The event is the second of Acto...
The Third and Final Installment of Block Party Will Run For 11 Performances OnlyCenter Theatre Group's Block Party continues with the opening of The Echo Theater Company production of " Dry Land" this Sunday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Alana Dietze, " Dry Land" will begin previews May 12 and continue for 11 performances through May 21. Block Party highlights some of the remarkable work being done in other, more...
For more than a century, much of the world has turned a blind eye to the events that transpired in 1914-1915 leading to the onset of the Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of what would become more than 1.5 million Armenians during world War I and thereafter. As of April 24, 2015, there were more than two million Armenians within the Empire. By 1922, fewer than 400,000. During that time period Armenians were murdered, starved, led on death marches under guise of "deportation". Although...
One of the most anticipated movies of the year is finally here - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. The live-action version of the beloved 1991 Disney animated classic of the same name, the first animated feature to ever receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture (as opposed to Best Animated Feature), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is brought to life under the leadership of director Bill Condon and producers Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman. The result is magnificent breathtaking beauty! Truly a...
Award-winning songwriter and virtuoso instrumentalist Molly Tuttle turns a new corner with Rise, her debut as a solo artist. Produced by Kai Welch, the seven-song EP will be independently released on June 2. She will perform live at Boulevard Music in Culver on Friday May 8 at 8 pm.Already a familiar face in bluegrass circles and folk festivals, where she's been performing since the age of 11, Tuttle widens her reach with Rise. "I wanted to push outside the box," she says of the EP, whose songs mix the fiery fretwork of her acoustic guitar...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for THE GINGERBREAD LADY, a dramedy by Neil Simon, on Saturday, May 13 fromnoon to 4 pm and Sunday, May 14 from 7 pm to 10. Callbacks will be held on Monday, May 15 from 7 pm to 10 by appointment only. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Drew Fitzsimmons and produced by Jenny Boone and Lynn Gutstadt for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Samuel French. Performance dates are July 14 through August 19 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8...
So often we see beloved television shows and characters - many times from those fun Saturday mornings cartoons and foreign imports that had us glued to the television screen in our youth - move to the big screen to disastrous result. (For example, Speed Racer, Astro Boy. Need I say more?) But every once in a while everything comes together and thanks to an innovative director and creative team, we are treated to a fun ride at the movies. And that's exactly what we get with POWER RANGERS thanks...
Kentwood Players proudly presents GOOD PEOPLE, a dramedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, opening Friday, May 12 through Saturday, June 17 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester. There will be a complimentary pre-show champagne and dessert reception between 7 pm and 7:30 for season subscribers and their guests attending the Saturday, May 13 performance. The production is directed by Gail Bernardi and produced by Susan Goldman...
Center Theatre Group will produce the West Coast premiere of the hit musical parody “Spamilton” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Presented as part of Center Theatre Group’s 2017-2018 season “Spamilton” will run November 5 through December 31, 2017, with opening set for November 12. The production will launch a national tour with additional cities and dates to be announced. The rest of the Kirk Douglas Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will be announced at a later date.Created by Gerard Alessandrini, “Spamilton” celebrates and satirizes t...
The Verdi Chorus continues its 34th season with spring concerts entitled "All's Fair in Love and War" at the acoustically-sound First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica on April 29 and 30. Their Founding Artistic Director/Conductor Anne Marie Ketchum and Julliard-trained piano accompanist Laraine Ann Madden have fashioned the first half of the program with choral numbers and arias of Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula, I Puritani, and Act I and the finale of Act II from Norma. The second...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills and the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills in April. On April 8 at the Saban Theatre Mr. Las Vegas is back with "Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal," a show unlike any he has ever done before, boasting a compilation of all of his greatest hits. He will sing crowd favorites including the platinum record "Danke Schoen," as well as engage with the audience by answering...
Like the true legend that he has quickly become, JOHN WICK is back! Ready to allay our fears and be the lone voice of reason and revenge in a world gone crazy. While there's no holds barred high-octane adrenaline rush in this action-packed one-man wrecking team, John Wick delivers much more than an explosive non-stop annihilation of the bad guy; he has a moral code that makes him stand a bit taller, fight a lot harder, and endear himself even more to the movie masses in JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2. In...
