Cirque du Soleil

5 Creative Things to Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. For those constantly churning minds looking for inspirational artists and events, this week proves a treasure trove of creative happenings. From a pop-up Etsy shop to a wacky parade to a ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Offshoot of Cirque du Soleil

This week's dance events include the arrival of nouveau circus Traces and the 6th Annual Pasadena Dance Festival wraps up. 5. Pasadena does festivals besides the Rose Parade The week-long Pasadena Dance Festival peaks with a series of jam-packed shows. Up-and-coming dancemakers and their companie ... More >>

Half-Pipe, With a Twist

5 Awesome Free Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Fans of a good laugh, Tom Sizemore and the realm of the fantastic need not break their wallets this week. Check out these free offerings that make even the dullest weekday interesting, f ... More >>

6 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dancing Down the Side of a Building at UCLA

This week's dance events include a site specific performance on the Red Line and several events considering Trisha Brown's 50-year career. 6. Dance on the roof A month-long celebration of New York choreographer Trisha Brown crests this weekend with two different performances at UCLA's Royce Hall ... More >>

Bouncing Off the Walls

Five More Iconic Key Club Shows

The Key Club's last day is today! Ever since West Coast Sound broke the story of its impending closure, local music fans have been mourning the place. Personally, we've been to the venue hundreds of times, and worked there as a DJ during Metal Skool's heyday for about two years. We believe the venue ... More >>

How Normand Latourelle Turned His Bizarre Dreams About Horses Into a $30 Million Spectacle

Normand Latourelle dreams about horses. Such dreams are appropriate because Latourelle is the creator of the touring shows Cavalia and Odysseo, which, for lack of a better description, have been called "Cirque du Soleil with horses." As one of the original co-founders of Cirque, Latourelle doesn't m ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Making Fun of Crappy Gifts

5. Chop Schtick 2012 Oh, holy night! All Jewish comics on Christmas Eve -- and egg rolls, too! Wendy Hammers hosts, with Eric Schwartz, Monica Piper, more special guests and a sing-along. Genghis Cohen, Mon. Dec. 24, 7 & 9 p.m.

We Watch Performers Do Crazy Tricks at the Cirque Du Soleil Auditions

See also: Our slideshow of the Cirque du Soleil auditions Watching a Cirque du Soleil show is so trippy you'll be convinced someone slipped a tab of acid on your tongue. Last week, the circus traveled to L.A.'s Kinetic Theory searching for new talent. Apparently, it's not enough to be a human Gum ... More >>

As Cirque du Soleil Show Michael Jackson The Immortal Returns to L.A., Choreographer Travis Payne Reflects on the King of Pop

It seems a shame to be talking to Travis Payne on the telephone, where he's a disembodied voice. Payne is a storied dancer, choreographer, producer and director who twice danced on tour with Michael Jackson, so it would have been great to see him, watch him move, even. See, maybe I could have talk ... More >>

International Pole Convention

Iris

Immigrant Dance

A Cinderella That Shines

The Bizarre Michael Jackson Handprint Ceremony

See also: *Our preview of the Michael Jackson Cirque du Soliel Show *MJ Tribute Concert Rolls Toward Cancellation; Oh, And His Kids Are More Or Less Contractually Required To Attend There was a Michael-Jackson's-kids sighting on Hollywood Blvd, yesterday, as his estate had his hand and footprint ce ... More >>

Ovo

The White-Glove Treatment

Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs

O(h), Bananas!, Jackie Five-Oh! and more new reviews

​Our critics were in a upbeat mood this week, serving up a Pick of the Week to Jackie Hoffman's Jackie Five-Oh!" at the Gay and Lesbian Center​, with recommendations for the Actor's Company's O(h), the production company's The Beauty Queen of Lenane (at the Lex) Days of Wine and Roses at the Lou ... More >>

Atomic Holiday Free-Fall at Actors' Gang Raises the Question: Was Cirque du Soleil Created by Aliens?

Cecile DelepiereAliens from planet Cirque​Christmas, 1963. At 20 minutes before 8 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, weather watchers observe several explosions of incandescent hydrogen gas, occurring at regular intervals on a planet called Cirque. The gas begins moving with enormous velocity toward ... More >>

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 >>

Cirque Du Soleil's Gymnasts and Dancers on Their Work and Lives In L.A.

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Iris

Rave Promoter Insomniac States it Had Nothing to do With DJ Kaskade's Flash Mob Performance on Hollywood Boulevard

YouTubeKaskade DJs on the street.​See our Electric Daisy Carnival Experience slideshows on the street action and party action. The promoter behind Wednesday's screening of Electric Daisy Carnival Experience, its documentary about the controversial rave that moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas ... More >>

Space Clown Adventures: Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil Founder, Discusses His Outer Space Photography

Courtesy of AssoulineGuy, on the bottom row, second from left, with the rest of his crew in space.​ Guy Laliberté has had many lives -- he's gone from fire-breathing street performer to poker shark to the multimillionaire head of Cirque du Soleil. In his latest incarnation, he's become a "spa ... More >>

Danny Elfman Scores New Los Angeles Cirque Du Soleil Show "Iris"

Zachary Pincus-RothDanny Elfman At The Kodak Theatre Preview of Cirque du Soleil's Iris​The game at Cirque du Soleil has always been to find new and different ways to bookend the acrobats we all came here to see, and their latest strategy at their upcoming resident show at the Kodak Theatre is ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil's Iris Preview at the Kodak Theater: Upcoming Show Will Be Porn for Tim Burton Fans

Zachary Pincus-Roth​ The most striking aspect of the press preview of Cirque Du Soleil's upcoming film-themed L.A. show Iris yesterday was the timeliness show's aesthetic: the costumes and production design generally were strikingly similar to that of Tim Burton, whose exhibit at LACMA just op ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil Costumes

Pileup on the 101 Freeway!

Theater New Reviews: Ballroom With a Twist, Cologne, Cyclops: A Rock Opera

Also, Room Service, Traces and more

Stage Raw: Room Service

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE ​ Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I mean, actors -- have run up a $1200 bill at a posh hotel in 1930s Manhattan, and their producer Gor ... More >>

Circus INcognitus

CIRQUE DE SADDLE

Live Review: Freddie Gibbs at Crazy Girls

Deidre CrawfordFreddie Gibbs Has A Lot To Smile About​ A strip club crowd's a tough crowd. When the inked, mohawked "Malice" is prancing and preening like she's the lead in Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls" video; and the acrobatic "Jojo" is languidly folding herself into origami around t ... More >>

Beyond

Stage Raw: Beyond

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON IN THE HEIGHTSNEW REVIEW GO BEYOND ​ Photo courtesy of El Portal Theatre This musical extravaganza, conceived and directed by Aurelien Roulin, is described as a cross between French cabaret and Cirque de Soleil, but ... More >>

CIRQUE DU CIENEGA

GET HAI

Party Tricks From Pastry Chef Jen Shen of Wilshire Her Sweet Potato Donut Recipe

Apparently, donuts really are seasonal. At least at Wilshire restaurant, where pastry chef Jen Shen fries up several variations throughout the year. "I'm definitely more fruit-driven," she says, prying a rather ornery lemon-mascarpone cream tart from its ring mold (an impressive feat involving a bl ... More >>

CIRQUE DU SO LIMBER

Cirque du Soleil: Kooza

BELLY UP TO THE BALLET

WHO SAID JUGGLING CAN'T BE A FULFILLING CAREER?

Monkey Madness

Into the Mystic

Generally Patton

An Attic an Exit