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Laura Escude Is Oz Behind the Curtain

The music programmer makes blockbuster tours pop

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

That Musical About Veganism Starring Jon Secada and Based on the Poetry of Supreme Master Ching Hai, Explained

Kelly Packard "is well known for her acting work on Baywatch," the emcee in a tux told everyone within earshot Saturday afternoon as Packard approached the red carpet, just before the debut of a new musical playing for one day only, titled Loving Silent Tears. The musical's publicity materials said ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

Aloke Dutta Just Wants to Bang on His Drum All Day. By Himself.

Aloke Dutta, the world's foremost solo tabla player, lives in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Studio City.By far the most important spot in the apartment is the one occupied by the rug on which Dutta practices, composes and teaches. In the 15 years that Dutta has lived there, the rug made a slow ... More >>

Jamie King: Michael Jackson's Former Dancer On His MJ Cirque du Soliel Show

Jamie King​Some out there may believe Michael Jackson is still alive, but most of us suspect he'll never emerge from his coffin "Thriller"-style for a glorious comeback. Perhaps the next best thing, dance guru Jamie King has partnered with Cirque du Soliel for a new show, Michael Jackson The I ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Art and Studio, Revealed for the First Time

Shannon CottrellThe interior of Michael Jackson's art studio, which he shared with friend and artist Brett-Livingstone Strong​ See more photos in "Michael Jackson Art: An Exclusive Look at the Musician's Drawings and Paintings." Until now, Michael Jackson's art collection was shrouded in myst ... More >>

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 >>

City Council Pays for Needless Study By Not Doing Its Homework

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Music Picks: Repeater, Project Blowed 16th Anniversary, Infected Mushroom

Also, Riot Grrl Christmas Carnival, Captain Ahab and others

Live Review: Empire of the Sun at the Music Box

Debi del GrandeShogun club: Empire of the Sun​After finally hitting U.S. soil in Chicago for Lollapalooza and New York this month, outer space-via-Australia electro-rockers Empire of the Sun landed at the Music Box on Wednesday for the first of four nights, playing their 2008 Astralwerks debut ... More >>

Stage Raw: Summer Festivities

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlSUMMER FESTIVITIES Open Fist Theater Company launches its annual Fist Look Festival this weekend, with The Existents, a rock musical by Douglas Crawford and Jason Wooten, music and lyrics by Ty Taylor. T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Brewsie & Willie

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALBREWSIE AND WILLIE ​Poor Dog Group's adaptation of Gertrude Stein's novella, is among the productions being reviewed this week. Photo by Scott Grolier Check back here on Monday night for reviews of THE BAKER'S ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Beyond, Priscilla's Perfect Day, Arcadia

Also, The Girl Who Would Be King, St. Nicholas, Oklahoma! and more

Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree

The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California

The Mad Men of Los Angeles

Living the good life, thanks to the big profits from illegal outdoor advertising

Hints About Cirque Due Kodak

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

CIM Group: Hollywood's Richest Slumlord

Two fed up YouTubians embarrass a City Hall insider into demolishing a shocking hovel

Across an Alternate Universe

A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

Más Mexican Media Response

And a Spanish translation of “The Island of Jorge Hank Rhon”

Making Very Nice With Tiny Tim