There is just one word for Jean Baker and Jean-Loup Dabadie’s new film "My Afternoons with Margueritte," and that’s delicious. In this one Gerard Depardieu is a big soft chocolate mousse and his costar, 97-year-old Gisele Casadesus, is a lean, crunchy baguette.
In March 2009, a theater company in Malibu mounted a run of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play “Rabbit Hole,” which chronicles the effects of the death of a 4-year-old on the rest of his family.
SM PIER — This summer, Santa Monica Beach seems to be holding an unintentional reenactment of the classic horror movie “Jaws,” but minus the Great White shark.
REED MEMORIAL PARK — Santa Monica Shakespeare is wrapping up its production of “Much Ado About Nothing,” with four final performances scheduled through the end of the week.
BERGAMOT STATION — Artist Steve Keene is back in Santa Monica with his signature frenetic mass-production style for a week-long “Art Marathon” at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
An insecure Tennessee Williams, “suffering from the disaster of success” after the overwhelmingly rapturous response to his first major play, “The Glass Menagerie,” worries about the reception that will greet his next work, “A Streetcar Named Desire.
DOWNTOWN — Organizers of the 27th annual Twilight Dance Series are trying to find a replacement for the high-tech big screen that projected performances to hundreds of people gathered on the sand south of the Santa Monica Pier to watch the free concerts.
In the 1980s, the South African government considered HIV/AIDS a “gay disease,” and so they ignored it. In the 1990s, they saw it as a gigantic conspiracy, with political and racial motivations, and so they ignored it.
SM PIER — The Santa Monica Pier’s Twilight Dance Series is back and so are grumblings about cops trying to spoil all the fun, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth, police said.
“I’ve told you everything and now you know too much, so I’m going to have to kill you.” This, in a nutshell, is the plot of Shem Bitterman’s new play, “A Death in Colombia.
Playwright James M. Barrie is most famous for his familiar and much-loved fantasy “Peter Pan.” However, he also produced a large body of other literary works that include two quaintly delicate playlets: “Rosalind” and “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
It’s James’ 29th birthday and his three closest friends have come to take him on a journey to his favorite place on earth: a secluded cove on Barafundle Bay, on the western coast of Wales.
