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Bobby Francis

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    December 15, 2009

    Robert Francis, Grace Potter, Brett Dennen live at the Wiltern: Three of a (Different) Kind

    Anna WebberRobert Francis at the Wiltern.​ 22-year-old blues singer Robert Francis performed as part of a three musician line-up at the Wiltern Saturday, and had a tough space to fill among Grace Potter and Brett Dennen. The fans dug all of them separately despite the non-sequitur of the bill ... More >>

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    October 15, 2009
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    July 16, 2009

    ROCK PICKS: CEU, GIRL IN A COMA, COLDPLAY, GRAVEYARD

    Also, Amadou & Mariam,The Pains of Being Pure, Jason Collett, The Smithereens, and others.

  • Music

    June 11, 2009

    Rock Picks: Sly & Robbie, Johanna Kunin, White Rabbits, Daniel Francis Doyle

    Also, Blue Jungle, A Camp, Neko Case, Jay Reatard and others

  • Music

    May 14, 2009

    Rock Picks: Doves, Ceci Bastida, Carina Round, New York Dolls

    Also, The Detroit Cobras, the Aggrolites, Loney Dear and others

  • Music

    April 30, 2009

    Juliette Commagere's Vividly Orchestrated Art Pop

    Singer performs each Monday in May at the Echo

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Stage Raw: Candida

    CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: Phil Newby

    PHIL NEWBY A memorial service was held at Sacred Fools Theatre on Sunday for that company's young and beloved actor who was found in his apartment last week. More on Phil to come in the print edition one week week from Thursday. At your fingertips: This week's Theater Feature on Jim Leonard' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Stage Raw: Your Source for Free and Discount Theater Tickets

    FREE AND DISCOUNT THEATER TICKETS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Plays411 is offering FREE & Discount Tickets: You only pay $3.50 Service Fee, or Half-off where indicated. Advance Reservations only: Go to: plays411.com, then select the show, use Promo Code: "LETMEIN" (unless otherwise instructed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Stage Raw: Leslie Jordan's Trip Down the Pink Carpet

    This Week's Theater Pick Leslie Jordan's Autobiographical Trip Down the Pink Carpet If a zest for life is infectious, there's probably no more delightful a carrier than Leslie Jordan. A diminutive stage, film, Emmy Award-winning TV actor, and fugitive from the Bible Belt, Jordan regales us ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Stage Raw: Ivanov

    IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Stage Raw: Cocks of the Walk

    COCKS OF THE WALK The same people who brought us Naked Boys Singing are at it again -- this time showing considerable more restraint with a musical revue subtly named Hangin' Out -- described as "a celebration of the human body . . . exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance." Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Stage Raw: The Little Dog Laughed

    >NEW REVIEW THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED As Gertrude Stein once put it (but not about this play), "It's almost about something, and then it's just not." Douglas Carter Beane's comedy brings with it the New York cast that put the play on the map, and secured Julie White a Tony for her role as a Holly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck

    Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

    CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Stage Raw: One Sucker's Lament

    Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

    BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    Stage Raw: Ovation Awards Tonight (Monday)

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Stage Raw: Fake Radio Sing Along

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Stage Raw: Surviving the Surviving Critics

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Stage Raw: Apollo bound for Oregon

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Music

    October 2, 2008

    Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

    Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

  • Music

    July 10, 2008

    Rock Picks: B.B. King, Matmos, Coldplay

    Also, Supergrass, Ratatat, the Duke Spirit

  • Music

    July 3, 2008

    Rock Picks: Spindrift, Randy Newman, The Gutter Twins

    Also, Zola Moon, David Banner, Naïm Amor, and more

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