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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...
Written and directed by Theodore Melfi and co-written by Allison Schroeder, Melfi, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly, HIDDEN FIGURES is a "must see" film for every American. This is definitely perfect timing for the release of HIDDEN FIGURES and in fact, should be a double feature with "Jackie", as both take us back to the days of Camelot and the Kennedy administration when America aspired to reach to the moon and the stars beyond, and when a woman showed the world grace and dignity in...
Five concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills in the month of March. On March 5, original vocalist and current member Henry Fambrough and his Spinners will be delighting the audience with their sophisticated, up-tempo R&B songs and precision choreography that made them famous. With over 60 million records sold over their illustrious career, they have performed for Presidents, received six Grammy nominations, and have appeared on Soul Train and many...
Currently in previews, the world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play Good Grief will open at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on Sunday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. Directed by Patricia McGregor, Anyanwu also performs in Good Grief, which runs through March 26. This is the first of Anyanwu’s plays to receive a full professional production. The cast features, in alphabetical order, Dayo Ade, Wade Allain-Marcus, Ngozi Anyanwu, Marcus Henderson, Omozé Idehenre, Carla Renata and Mark Jude Sullivan. Scenic design is by Stepha...
Five concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills in the month of March. On March 5, original vocalist and current member Henry Fambrough and his Spinners will be delighting the audience with their sophisticated, up-tempo R&B songs and precision choreography that made them famous. With over 60 million records sold over their illustrious career, they have performed for Presidents, received six Grammy nominations, and have appeared on Soul Train and many...
A film eloquently crafted and visualized. A unique story structure. A visual style best described as painterly beauty with strong framing and use of color. A story seen through the eyes of an 11-year old girl in middle America farm country in the 1982 Reagan Era. This is AMERICAN FABLE, the feature debut of writer/director Anne Hamilton. Lawyer turned filmmaker, one look at the film and you immediately see Hamilton's legal background come into play with the balance within her storytelling....
Legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean will be "driving his chevy to the" Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 25 on his 2017 concert tour. He is best known for his magnum opus, "American Pie," an impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The song popularized the expression "The Day the Music Died" in reference to this event. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in...
As if the world isn't already drinking in enough Technicolored musical cheer with "La La Land", hot on its heels is an animated musical treat to make your Christmas or Hanukkah brighter than bright - SING! Move over Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and DreamWorks, there's a new kid on the block who's climbing the charts - Illumination Entertainment. The folks who brought us "Despicable Me" and "The Secret Life of Pets" now ventures into the world of the animation musical with an engaging story,...
Coming to the Saban Theatre on February 11 is a trio of exceptional female talent. Multiple Grammy Award-winner Olivia Newton-John, Grammy nominee Beth Nielsen Chapman and SOCAN Award-winner Amy Sky take the stage to lend their vocal, songwriting, and performing talents to create a special "LIV ON" collaborative concert. "LIV ON" is an album about grief and healing that was released in October 2016 to help inspire those who wish to transcend loss while walking a journey toward new-found meaning...
Casting is complete and rehearsals have begun for Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play “Good Grief” at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Directed by Patricia McGregor, Anyanwu will also perform in “Good Grief” for its world premiere at the Douglas, which begins previews February 26, opens March 5 and closes March 26, 2017. This is the first of Anyanwu’s plays to receive a full professional production. The cast features, in alphabetical order, Dayo Ade, Wade Allain-Marcus, Ngozi Anyanwu, Marcus Henderson, Omozé Idehenre, Carl...
Disney’s heading back to the sea this Thanksgiving weekend with the beauteous animated feature, MOANA. Inspired by culture, legends and folklore of the Polynesians and Pacific Islanders and the many islands of Oceania in the South Pacific, directors Ron Clements and John Musker together with co-directors Chris Williams and Don Hall, tap into that history and the connection between the people and the earth, particularly the sea, to deliver a story celebratory in the ancient history of n...
Mars. Long a dream of mankind (and especially Buzz Aldrin) is for man to go to Mars. Not just with land rovers and satellites sending images back to Earth, but to walk upon and colonize. NASA and other space agencies have now long been working toward that very goal. Tests done on space shuttle missions, on the International Space Station, and now the "Twins" experiment with astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly, are all yielding results that will further the realization of the Mars dream. Hollywood, a...
It's a box office bonanza at the movies this weekend with not just an eclectic slate of new releases, but award-worthy films, among them the film is without a doubt the best picture of the year. Outstanding is a documentary from Otto Bell which tells the story of Aisholpan, a young Mongolian girl who follows her dream and breaks the centuries-old glass ceiling of her culture, soaring as THE EAGLE HUNTRESS. Don't be surprised to see this on the Oscar short list for Best Documentary Feature this...
Jim Messina -- songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer and record producer -- is back on the road again with his 2017 solo tour, which will be making a stop at the intimate Smothers Theatre on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu on January 29. One half of Loggins & Messina, co-founder of the country-rock band Poco, and member and key contributor to folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, Messina, 69, has left an indelible footprint on popular music, selling over 20 million...
Super-sized ideas! Super-sized dreams! Ray Kroc was the epitome of both. Always a hard-working man of vision, nothing topped his greatest vision when he met with brothers Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California for the purpose of verifying an order for milkshake machines. Kroc didn't just make the sale, he laid the groundwork for achieving the quintessential American Dream by way of hamburgers, french fries (400 degrees until slightly golden), pickles, milkshakes and the idea of...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter Musica Angelica, an internationally renowned baroque orchestra based in Southern California and led by music director Martin Haselbock - award-winning harpsichordist, conductor and composer - treated their audience to their annual holiday concert featuring the music and baroque treasures of J.S. Bach at Colburn School's Zipper Hall. This orchestra is dedicated to the historically informed performance of baroque and classical music on period instruments and...
Center Theatre Group has selected three local productions for the inaugural Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Block Party will remount Coeurage Theatre Company's production of "Failure: A Love Story" by Philip Dawkins, Echo Theater Company's production of "Dry Land" by Ruby Rae Spiegel and Fountain Theatre's production of "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine and adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs. Each production will have a...
