Spoiler alert: In Itamar Moses’ brilliant intellectual farce, “Bach at Leipzig,” Bach does not appear. But his music does! Set in 1722, Moses’ witty comedy is based on an actual event: the gathering of eight of the major organists of the time in a competition to succeed the recently deceased organ m
“Alex,” my mother said, ”don’t get involved again.” “Mom, I have no desire to get involved. Only if it’s pretend and I get paid a lot of money for it.
All the ugly racist clichés about African-Americans that used to be tossed around with impunity during World War II are present in Paul Leaf’s new play “Mutiny at Port Chicago,” now having its world premiere at Santa Monica’s Ruskin Theatre.
My maternal grandmother, when she was just 12 years old, was placed in a hay wagon among a group of strangers and was sent from her small village of Mikhaelevka, in the Ukraine, across northern Europe to Hamburg, where she boarded a boat for America.
Can you imagine a more delightful way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon than in the lush wooded tranquility of the Theatricum Botanicum watching several dozen gifted players gambol over the hillside declaiming the words of Shakespeare? This secluded outdoor theater in Topanga Canyon has begun its 20
There is an Irish proverb that states, “A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best; but his mother the longest.” This may be so. Mothers teach us lessons by what they say and do.
In this new series published by Bethany House, Beverly Lewis once again takes us into the world of the Amish people. This is set in the present. In her previous book “Forbidden” in the “The Courtship of Nellie Fisher” series (reviewed in this paper July 25, 2008) we got a glimpse of Amish life.
With a title like “How I Went To the Oscars without a Ticket” you may be asking yourselves, “Is this a how to book? Or maybe a motivational book? Or, yes, I know, an autobiography?” It is none of the above.
When writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber set out to make a film it wasn’t going to be a traditional Hollywood romance with a happy ending — because it was based on Neustadter’s personal experience.
SM PIER — Tonight’s Twilight Dance Series brings the international music stage to Santa Monica with one band combining reggae beats and salsa flavor, the other brining together Afro-Cuban rhythms.
Listen, wouldn’t you think that a musical that could produce lyrics that rhyme “prodigious, religious, prestigious and litigious” would be a show you’d like to see? Well, yes and no.
‘Gran Torino’ — Widescreen Edition This racially-centered drama features Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski, a recent widower, longtime bigot and disgruntled Korean War vet living in Michigan amongst a mixed neighborhood including some troubled Hmong residents next door.
