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Still in the midst of spring break and with baseball season fast upon us, it’s a moviegoing grand slam this week with everything from a biopic on an American institution, Hank Williams, to a foul-mouthed, hard talking, stuck-in-the-past Olympic bronze medalist comedy to the tenderness of a young woman with Asperger’s looking for love to a look at one aspect of the greatest American pastimes, baseball. First up to the plate. . . FASTBALL Justin Verlander. Sandy Koufax. Bob Gibson. Bob Feller. Wal...
The Culver City Chamber Orchestra will be presenting a “Family Concert” on April 10 at 4 p.m. at Culver Palms United Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Blvd.featuring Usha Kapoor 18 (Colburn Conservatory) and Vera Kim 12, violinists. Also included will be The West Coast Premiere of Ms. Deon Price’s (Culver City longtime resident) Triple Flute Concerto with flutists Johana Borenstein, Victoria Batt and Rachel Mellis. Admission is $20 adults, Seniors and Students with ID. $15. Children $10. Children under seven free. Culver City Chamber Orche...
THE CONFIRMATION Clive Owen is always a welcome presence in any film, but particularly in one as smartly subtle and engaging as Bob Nelson’s THE CONFIRMATION, and in which Owen shares the screen with (and is often upstaged by) one of the greatest young talents of the next generation, Jaeden Lieberher. THE CONFIRMATION is quietly moving, laced with the humor and pain inherent to life. A beautiful character study in the dynamics of a father and son, the chemistry between Owen and Lieberher is m...
[NOTE: While I have made every effort to keep this review spoiler-free, for a completely pure viewing experience of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, wait to read this review or any other until after you have seen the film. Trust me. You won't regret it!] Fall in love anew with old friends. Embrace the new. Ride the roller coaster of adventure complete with thrills and chills that make your heart pound and your face smile from ear to ear with more than a few tears thrown in for good measure. Marvel...
¬¬Introducing the song "New York, New York" to audiences worldwide in its 1944 Broadway de-but, Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins' classic American musical On the Town is coming to Culver City. The spring production of AVPA's Blurred Vision Theatre Company, directed by Jill Novick, will run March 11-13 and March 18-19 in the Robert Frost Auditorium at Culver City High. An instant hit that has enjoyed multiple revivals, On the Town follows the story of three sailors on 24-hour leave in New Y...
The West Coast premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s madcap new play “Women Laughing Alone With Salad” opens Sunday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Directed by Neel Keller, with musical staging by Ken Roht, performances for “Women Laughing Alone With Salad” continue through April 3. (Previews began on March 6.) The cast includes Lisa Banes (“Gone Girl,” the film; “Present Laughter,” Broadway) Nora Kirkpatrick (founding member of the Grammy-winning band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros; “Pi...
Lou Gramm, the voice of Foreigner, will make a stop on March 19 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills as he continues on with his solo concert tour. One of the greatest singers in rock music with distinctive vocals, Gramm placed Foreigner among Billboard’s top artists of all time. Their 16 Billboard Top 40 hit songs defined an era. Top 10 hits that made Gramm famous are “I Want to Know What Love Is,” “Double Vision,” “Cold As Ice,” “Head Games,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Blue Morning,” “Hot Blooded,...
Further casting has been announced for Samuel Beckett's masterful "Endgame," directed by one of Beckett's most celebrated interpreters Alan Mandell at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City April 24 through May 22. The opening is scheduled for May 1. Mandell ("Waiting for Godot," "The Price" and "The Cherry Orchard" all at the Mark Taper Forum) will also perform at the Douglas with Barry McGovern ("I'll Go On" at the Douglas; Rick Cluchey was originally announced as part of...
Despite what is being touted of late, let it never be said that there isn't diversity in filmmaking. And contrary to the "forced" diversity which many film festival directors, programmers and controlling guilds and academies are of late trying to force feed to the industry and public alike, the diversity I am seeing in many films is genuine, and reflects not only a diversity of issues and topics and performers in front of the camera, but directorial craftsmanship and artistry that rings true of...
The cast is set and rehearsals are underway for the West Coast premiere of Sheila Callaghan's madcap new play "Women Laughing Alone With Salad," opening March 13 at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Directed by Neel Keller and choreographed by Ken Roht, previews for "Women Laughing Alone With Salad" begin March 6 and performances continue through April 3. The cast includes Lisa Banes ("Gone Girl," the film; "Present Laughter," Broadway) Nora Kirkpatrick (founding...
The kid in me fell in love with Panda Po back in 2008 when "Kung Fu Panda" was released. Charming, funny and filled with action and antics led to pure entertainment, while introducing us to what have become beloved characters premised on a goose named Mr. Ping raising an abandoned young Panda named Po. Wonderful thematics and messaging about family and friends. When "Kung Fu Panda 2" rolled around in 2011, I watched it with my two younger nephews, with the 5-year old writing his own review of...
Many may know the grainy black and white images of Jesse Owens’ triumphant quadruple-gold medal performance at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, but do they know the story behind it? Those images, captured by German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, were the first ever televised, the first that the world saw being broadcast, the first that any beings light years away will ever see of Earth and its inhabitants. Knowing the importance of Riefenstahl’s camera, and how Germany would be viewed by the wor...
On Saturday evening, January 30 The Culver Hotel welcomed over 250 visitors to a private, VIP reception in conjunction with the LA Art Show and the Los Angeles Fine Art Show and the city’s Bruce Lurie Gallery. The circa 1924 landmark hotel used the “Vernissage” event to launch new gallery space on the second floor. This event was the first in an ongoing series of art programs the Culver Hotel is planning to showcase the thriving Culver City Arts District and art scene. Reflecting the classic-meets-modern redesign of the historic boutique hotel,...
The Pacific Art Guild will meet Wednesday, March 2 at 7 pm in the Community Room, Westchester Civic Center, 7166 W. Manchester Avenue, Westchester . Guests are welcome. The guest demonstrator for March will be Beuna Johnson. Painting and drawing since she was a child, she became exceptionally skilled at colored pencil drawing. She has received widespread recognition for her jazz, blues, and gospel fine art as well as her wide body of work featuring angels and messages from the Bible....
Tony Butala, original and founding member of The Lettermen, is excited about their upcoming concert at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 20. According to Butala, the two other performers, Donovan Tea and Bobby Poynton, make up their best trio since he founded the group in the late 50’s, so audience members are in for a special treat. Tea has remained a continuous member of The Lettermen since he joined the group in September of 1984, making him the longest tenured Letterman next t...
Three hundred people were lucky to attend Saturday night's concert by the Culver City Symphony Orchestra. It was a lovely night: great music, not expensive, and intriguing programming mixing famous composers with ones you may not know. The concert was about to start when a tuxedo'd gentleman started stood up on the stage. Matthew Hetz, the orchestra's President and Executive Director, gently explained a few concert basics to the audience. "Please don't text during the concert," he asked (sign...
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane served as musical “tour guide” and conductor for LACO’s annual “Discover” program, which this season featured a special one-night-only exploration of Bach’s incomparable Cantata BWV 140 “Sleepers Awake” on Saturday at the historic Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, the “Carnegie Hall of the West.” Bach composed this cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on November 25, 1731. It was composed to com...
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra continues its 2015-16 Season with A Winter's Concert Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave. and Culver Blvd., Culver City. Free parking, entrances from Culver Blvd. The warm sounds of strings of the orchestra. Guest Artis-Oboist Claire Brazeau from Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Parness Competition Special Award-Violinist Usha Kapoor. Winter's Music. Hear it and Enjoy. This concert is under the direction Conductor...
Center Theatre Group and Humanitas announce that Ngozi Anyanwu has won first place for the inaugural Humanitas/CTG Playwriting Prize, with Dan O'Brien in second place and Louisa Hill in third place. The prize is awarded annually to the best new unproduced play written by a Southern California-based writer. The winning plays will be developed with CTG's literary staff, led by CTG's Director of New Play Development Pier Carlo Talenti, and will be presented in staged readings at Humanitas Play...
In addition to scattered screenings of many of this year’s Academy Award nominated films still showing in theatres, there are plenty of new releases opening every week in theatres, as well as digitally and VOD. This week, there is a terrific range of films opening with something for everyone in the family. I can’t recommend highly enough THE PASTOR. Faith-based without being preachy, actor/writer/producer Arturo Muyshondt delivers a solid uplifting story of social relevance in today’s world...
Almost 30-years in the making, Martin Scorsese finally delivers SILENCE. Adapted by Scorsese and co-writer Jay Cocks from Shusaku Endo's 1966 fact-based historical novel, Scorsese delves into the world of 17th-century Japan as efforts by Jesuit priests to convert and minister to the hidden, or silent, Christian believers are met with persecution, torture and even death as Japanese Inquisitors attempt to apostatize the converts and priests alike. For the uninitiated into Christian dogma, "apostas...
Hooray for Hollywood!! The Hollywood Musical Is Alive and Well with LA LA LAND!!! Who said the Hollywood movie musical is dead? Maybe napping at times, but certainly not dead as is evidenced by this glorious, toe-tapping, Technicolor delight from writer/director Damien Chazelle - LA LA LAND. A love letter not only to the movie musical and the studios and artisans who made them (thank you MGM, Fox and RKO, among others), LA LA LAND is also Chazelle's love letter to Los Angeles and all the...
Center Theatre Group invites current high school students, parents and teachers to attend the first College & Career Fair for the Arts on February 6, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Presented in collaboration with the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) Foundation, the fair will take place at the Music Center Annex located at 601 W. Temple St. in Downtown L.A. More than 35 local colleges, universities and community organizations will be in attendance including USC, UCLA, Pepperdine, Chapman University, the Fashion Institute of...
Diane Rodriguez, Center Theatre Group’s Associate Artistic Director, was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate to be a member of the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the Arts. Director, writer and Obie Award-winning actor Rodriguez brings her considerable experience fostering greater visibility for Latina/o theatre, advancing a feminist presence in the arts, and playing a leadership role in theatre nationwide to help advance the NEA’s mission to give all Ame...
Bright and early on this crisp Beverly Hills morning, the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced to the world from the beautiful and historic Samuel Goldwyn Theatre at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. While some of the nominations were expected, others presented themselves as sweet surprises for the nominees and moviegoers alike. “Joy-ous” for all is Best Animated Feature nomination for INSIDE OUT, which also picked up a surprise nomination for Best Original Scr...
