No medium is more modern, or even contemporary, than collage, as we see in this latest survey of pasted papers. Bringing historical figures such as George Grosz and William Copley together with latter-day collagists like Franz West and Pae White, "C...
Most of "The Art of Time" is crammed into a hallway, the rest into a forecorner of a typically loud and busy children's museum, but go see it anyway -- and not just because it's for a good cause. Some 70-odd artists -- artists for a day or for a lif...
Its midday, and Im sitting in a booth at Victors restaurant in Hollywood with a couple of suspicious-looking characters who are viciously attacking the president with utensils and condiments. One of the guys goes by Hieronymus Bang. So does th...
Hybrids Even in his much-regretted absence, the late Lou Harrison remains a glowing presence. The paltry three concerts of his music in Orange County over the past few days that have been passed off as this year's Pacific Symphony American Composer...
GO PICK THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A TRAILER-TRASH HOUSEWIFE Del Shores may well be the Molire of L.A. Over decades, the writer-director-producer has stuck with, and by, a repertory of actors in his own comedies who frequently home in on hyp...
As a composer who whacked a solitary path through many of the existing assumptions of the musical world, Harry Partch might well be amused at how his work now attracts legions of adoring fans. And the prospect of a company devoted to physicalizing h...
Its midday, and Im sitting in a booth at Victors restaurant in Hollywood with a couple of suspicious-looking characters who are viciously attacking the president with utensils and condiments. One of the guys goes by Hieronymus Bang. So does the...
GO 1001 BEDS Tim Miller's autobiographical tales, tinctured with magical realism,cover the politics and perseverance of being a gay performance artist. This may feel dated if not for the fact that over 20 years of advocacy, gay rights has certainl...
Hate, Fear and?The Da Vinci Code Unlike the Bible, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction. But like the Bible, it makes sense of an absurd and chaotic world. Not logical sense, maybe, but intuitive sense. People like that. And they resp...
Lorna Simpson's midcareer retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art begins in 1985, the year Simpson completed her MFA at UC San Diego, with a piece that lays the groundwork for much of the rest of the show and epitomizes many of its frustrati...
Raul Guerrero speaks through both sides of the border. A microspective of Guerrero's paintings and objects brims with a gently caustic wit, a willingness to lampoon Us, Them and the whole identity thing by aping the look of both Euro-American realis...
It can't be easy writing a play about Nazis. Actors may love dressing up in smart Gestapo uniforms, but playwrights are handicapped because they are loath to bestow upon Nazis the same range of humanizing quirks available to other fictional characte...
They don't write plays like All My Sons anymore. Arthur Miller was clearly following the ancient Greek template, a template that, like a silver dish holding thunder and fire, also contained the blueprint for America's greatest 20th-century dramati...
GO CHEAP TALE Comedienne, heal thyself, is the connective theme of Jennifer Fitzgerald and Mandy Steckelberg's pair of quite funny one-woman shows, directed smoothly by Jennifer Carta. In the first, Memoirs of a Flaker, Fitzgerald chronicles two de...
Kirk Douglas Theatre's Three Solo Shows Are Respectable But Don't Push the Envelope
In his absorbing solo show, St. Jude, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, gay-Latino writer-performer Luis Alfaro talks sincerely about himself, about growing up in California's Central Valley, and about his… More >>
On a blazing Sunday afternoon, the interior of downtown's Union Station provides a cool refuge from an early-September heat wave. But on this particular day, cool takes on its other… More >>
Theater @ Boston Court's program to its production of R II — what might otherwise be called William Shakespeare's Richard II — makes a point of not referring to the dramatist's work as a… More >>
GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach
A gas-fueled fire ring, held up by specially built scaffolding that rises over Santa Monica sand, will light up on Sept. 28 at sunset, as if capturing and keeping sunlight… More >>
Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound
In his program note to his elegant and fervent staging of the 5th-century Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound director Travis Preston writes, "The dramaturgy of Prometheus Bound asks us to question… More >>
