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Charles Dickens

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2013

    Midget Zombies and Black Republicans: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 22 Help celebrate two (non-mutually exclusive) minority groups by attending the 10th Annual Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, which starts its two-day run on Friday. The fest will open at 7 p.m. at REDCAT with the documentar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2012

    Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Hats off to Washington state where, recently, hundreds of same-sex couples were legally married ... More >>

  • Stage

    August 9, 2012

    Heather Woodbury's Upcoming As the Globe Warms and LACE's American Realism

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Hats off to Washington state where, recently, hundreds of same-sex couples were legally married ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    The Langham's Jubilee Anniversary Tea: Win Afternoon Tea at 1865 Prices

    Back in June 1865, Americans were reeling from the end of the Civil War, Charles Dickens was recovering from a near-fatal train accident at Staplehurst, and, in London, The Langham opened its doors. The Langham was Europe's first grand hotel to serve Afternoon Tea, a tradition, it says, that began ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    6 Oddest Moments of L.A. Theater in 2011

    Nina Silver and Guy Birtwhistle in D is for Dog​​From backstage mishaps to audience interruptions, theater is unpredictable, and no one knows that better than the actors, producers and others who work in theater every day. We polled the theater community to find the oddest moments of la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Gil Cates dies at 77

    Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    "How Italian Food Conquered the World": Dinner Tonight

    "How Italian Food Conquered the World," a book by John Mariani.​Tonight, Culina, the in-house restaurant at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, will celebrate the launch of John Mariani's book, "How Italian Food Conquered the World" with a special five-course prix fixe dinner from chef Victor C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2011

    Twist: An American Musical

    "How Italian Food Conquered the World," a book by John Mariani.​Tonight, Culina, the in-house restaurant at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, will celebrate the launch of John Mariani's book, "How Italian Food Conquered the World" with a special five-course prix fixe dinner from chef Victor C ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 9, 2010

    THEATER REVIEWS: A CHICAGO CHRISTMAS CAROL, EXIT 10, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, OUR BEDS ARE CROWDED

    Also, The Stories of Cesar Chavez, Traveling Carnival Freakshow, West Side Story and more

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    Scrooge

    Also, The Stories of Cesar Chavez, Traveling Carnival Freakshow, West Side Story and more

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    A Christmas Carol

    Also, The Stories of Cesar Chavez, Traveling Carnival Freakshow, West Side Story and more

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2010

    Great Expectations

    Also, The Stories of Cesar Chavez, Traveling Carnival Freakshow, West Side Story and more

  • Stage

    November 25, 2010

    Theater Reviews: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Looking for Paul, The Night of the Tribades

    Also, The Sunset Limited, Uptown Downtown and more

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 17, 2009

    Theater Reviews: La Posada Magica, Women Behind Bars, Peep This

    Also, Palestine, New Mexico, A Very Merry Happy Kosher Christmas and more

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Stage Raw: Palestine, New Mexico

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyNEW REVIEW PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO ​Photo by Craig Schwartz When U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler (Kirsten Potter) stumbles into "Bumfuck" -- a New Mexico Indian reservation -- she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Wig Out! Says "Get Your Dickens On"

    The good thing about a Charles Dickens-themed party in early December is that, even if you don't have a costume, chances are that it will rain and you will stumble into the club bundled up in a scarf, old coat and hat, dripping wet. Instant Victorian waif. The bad thing is that you might spend most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Stage Raw: ZAR

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 1, 2009

    Movie Reviews: The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, Paranormal Activity

    Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

  • Stage

    May 7, 2009

    Hearts of Darkness: The 2009 Pacific Playwrights Festival

    Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2009

    The Seafarer

    Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Stage Raw: Awards, Awards on Every Corner

    Minsky's Photo by Craig Schwartz MINSKY'S The world premiere of Charles Strouse, Susan Birkenhead and Bob Martin's new '30s musical opens to the press tonight (Friday) at the Ahmanson. Director-choregographer Casey Nicholaw took The Drowsy Chaperone from the Ahmanson to Broadway, and has much ... More >>

  • LA Life

    January 1, 2009

    The Worst Hoopla Ever!

    What to do in L.A., January 2-8

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

    ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    God Bless Everyone (Celebrity Version)

    ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

  • LA Life

    December 18, 2008

    Praise Jesus: All the Kids Are Doing It!

    What to do in L.A., December 19-25

  • Calendar

    December 11, 2008

    A Chicago Christmas Carol

    What to do in L.A., December 19-25

  • Stage

    December 11, 2008

    Theater Reviews: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, Scrooge Must Die!

    Plus, A Grand Guignol Children's Show, A Chicago Christmas Carol and 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

    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 >>

  • Stage

    November 27, 2008

    Adapting Oliver Twist and The Joy Luck Club for the Stage

    Lit lite

  • 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 >>

  • Stage

    November 13, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Eat the Runt, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Cute With Chris

    Miss Witherspoon, The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and more

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2008

    Managing Expectations

    Miss Witherspoon, The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and more

  • Film+TV

    May 1, 2008

    PBS's Cranford: It Takes an Eccentric Village

    Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting

  • Stage

    April 10, 2008

    Great Expectations

    Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting

  • Stage

    April 10, 2008

    Theater Reviews: DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL

    Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2008

    Great Expectations

    Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more

  • Stage

    December 13, 2007

    Theater Reviews: Astroglyde2007, Polaroid Stories, Tango

    Also The Rat Pack: Live at the Sands, A Christmas Carol and The Prisoner of Second Avenue

  • Stage

    December 6, 2007

    Theater Listings

    For the Week of Dec. 7-14 Opening This Week Larger Theaters Smaller TheatersHollywood, West Hollywood, Downtown The Valleys Westside, Beaches Special Events

  • Stage

    December 14, 2006

    Theater

    For the Week of Dec. 7-14 Opening This Week Larger Theaters Smaller TheatersHollywood, West Hollywood, Downtown The Valleys Westside, Beaches Special Events

  • Stage

    December 29, 2005

    Feodor Dostoyevsky’s Christmas Carol

    Circle X visits The Brothers Karamazov

  • Columns

    August 8, 2002

    The Summer of Stolen Children

    Circle X visits The Brothers Karamazov

  • Stage

    January 31, 2002

    Geek House

    Gene Franklin Smith brings a Dickens novel to the stage

  • Film+TV

    December 21, 2000

    Women Warriors, Suffering Boys

    Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; filming Charles Dickens

  • Film+TV

    December 16, 1999

    Filthy Lucre

    And stirring conscience

  • Stage

    December 24, 1998

    Teenage Crush

    In praise of A Noise Within

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