Danny Elfman

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Oz the Great and Powerful Is Neither of Those Things

10 Great Stores in L.A. For Goth Gifts

See also: *Clockwork Couture, L.A.'s Premiere Steampunk Fashion Spot You've reached the holiday shopping homestretch, but there's one final gift that's driving you mad. Maybe it's for your sibling, or the co-worker whose name you pulled in Secret Santa. Regardless, it's for someone whose known inte ... More >>

Iris

Burton's Bacharach

Ernest Cline: The Ready Player One Author's 10 Favorite Songs From John Hughes Movies

While in town for SXSW last week, we checked in with Austin native Ernest Cline, the author of 2011 bestseller Ready Player One. It's sci-fi, but totally readable and compelling; the plot concerns a nerdy overweight teen living in a distopian future America where everyone spends all their time in a ... More >>

Iris

Five Revelations from the Hollywood Bowl's Trippy, Light Stick-Crazy AFI Great American Movie Quiz

Mathew Imaging"If Timothy Leary was here he'd say 'Boy did they give me some real good stuff," quipped AFI Movie Quiz host Alex Trebek about patrons' light sticks.​ There's typically a spot on the September Hollywood Bowl calendar for its revue of classical Hollywood scores, aka The Big Pictu ... 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 >>

Tim Burton at LACMA

How a Hollywood director became a counterculture hero

An Evening with Danny Elfman

Jane's Addiction at Tim Burton's LACMA Bash, plus Some of Burton's Best Movie Music

Lina Lecaro LACMA CEO Michael Govan, Tim Burton and Slash​ There is seemingly no rest for the wicked mind of Tim Burton. With current/recent projects ranging from the film version of Dark Shadows to a reworking of his stop-motion short Frankenweenie to Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty (sadly, ... More >>

Tim Burton at LACMA: Burbank Goth Boy Makes Good

LACMA.org​Overheard last night at the members' preview of the Tim Burton Retrospective at LACMA: (Two women are gazing upwards at the rear end of a pedestal-high display of Edward Scissorhands' buckled, tight-fitting black leather costume.) Woman #1: Ahh, Johnny Depp. Sexy even without a ... More >>

The Nightmare Before Christmas: In 4-D

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... 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 >>

Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Theater Reviews: More Lies About Jerzy, Second, Supernova

Also, U.S.S. Pinafore, Den of Thieves, Man Verses Moon and more

Stage Raw: Supernova

ALL THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS NEW REVIEW GO SUPERNOVA ​Photo by Joel Daavid Mabel (Bonnie Hunt), a naive Des Moines housewife, calls a graveyard shift salesman named Joe in Los Angeles (Timothy McNeil), to order an expensive watch for her son's 18th birthday. She can't yet go through with the ... More >>

Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land

"I'm misperceived as a dark person: I'm not dark"

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Last Night: Linda Hamilton, Danny Elfman, Radiohead and other Terminator Salvation Sneak Preview News

I've always felt a certain connection to John Connor. Sure, in 1984 when The Terminator hit theaters I was a toddler and he was unborn, but after Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I too was arrested for liberating incarcerated lobsters in a Kentucky grocery store felt ready to lead th ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Pee-wee's Big Adventure at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Paul Reubens Unveils Plans for Next Herman Film

Before there was Beetle Juice, Batman or Edward Scissor Hands, there was Pee-wee Herman. Yes, the original guy you didn’t want to get mixed up with. The loner. The rebel. In 1985, Pee-wee's Big Adventure premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and marked the breakthrough collaboration for director ... More >>

ABT Reveals Rabbit and Rogue, Revives Etudes

The tried and the new

The Tried and the New

Exiles On Main Street

Portraits of downtown's endangered artists. Case study: The Canadian Building

Running With Scissorhands

Matthew Bourne’s very odd man out

Matthew Bourne: Edward Scissorhands

Matthew Bourne Does Hollywood

Sex, power and a Play Without Words

The Year's Best DVD Gift Boxes

Moved by Movies

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

Sound and Beyond

The music of art, the art of music

How Clean Was My Valley

Edited by Kateri Butler

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

Psycho Killer

Gus Van Sant’s imitation of art

Blood Brothers

Sam Raimi’s American dream