Dinah Washington

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pycho-Sexual Boxing Match

Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Theatre Company's Dreamgirls at the MET, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at A Noise Within, Latino Theatre Company's Melacho ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unusual Look at Motherhood

This week, our critics enjoyed composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical The Trouble With Words (Coeurage Theatre Company at the Unknown Theatre) as well as a quartet of one-acts at the Lillian under the collective title Unscreened. This week's Pick goes to Dorothy Fortenberry ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Prancing Horses on a Stage the Size of a Football Field

The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry National Center, and for a revival of Carlos Murillo's Dark Play (or Story for Boys) at the Whitmore-Lindley The ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope

Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

A Tribute to Dinah Washington with Barbara Morrison - Catalina Bar & Grill - 7/8/12

A Tribute to Dinah Washington, with Barbara Morrison Catalina Bar & Grill 7-8-12 Better than...a blues tribute to Vince Vaughn. Last night at Hollywood's shiniest jazz club, Catalina Bar & Grill, Barbara Morrison led a 17-piece big band in a tribute to the late singing legend Dinah Washington. It' ... More >>

Johnny Otis Is Dead: R&B Godfather Was 90

By Kirk Silsbee Rhythm and blues giant Johnny Otis passed away on Tuesday in Altadena. He was 90. At times a bandleader, talent scout, club owner, and broadcaster, among other titles, his caravan tours in the 1950s helped popularize R&B throughout the country. His influence on the genre is incalcul ... More >>

Uptown Downtown

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

Also, The Sunset Limited, Uptown Downtown and more

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 >>

Brick's Picks: Up the Wazoo

Top Ten YouTube Comments for Ricky Martin's 'She Bangs' in the Last 24 Hours

​As Dinah Washington once sang, "what a difference a day makes, twenty-four little hours"! It seems like only yesterday when we all went about our daily routines safe in the knowledge that the sun was shining above us, a competent guy who looks good in Shephard Fairey posters was still our pr ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Zorro in Hell, The Idiot Box, Bad Seed and More

Also this week's pick, Alice in One-Hit Wonderland

Killer of Sheep

Diana Ross: O.G. Diva Sings the Blues

A long-lost ’71 jazz album smashes imitators, from Madonna to Beyoncé

Zam Zam With Lemony Snicket

Sharing a dangerous drink with author Daniel Handler

The Nipple Effect

KPCC yanks The Play’s the Thing

Edging Your Bets

Edgefest holds the answers to those handicapping the future of theater in L.A.

Killer of Sheep: The Best Film about Los Angeles

May be the least-seen great film ever made in this country

African Sunrise

Melting into Chocolate City

Frigid Eyre, Cool Duke

The bizarre alchemy of musicals

Give the Drummer Some

Earl Palmer, rock & roll's heavy hitter

City of Stages

Hope among the ghosts

Jazz Central

Oral history from a vanished Los Angeles