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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter Pan, presented by the Blank Theatre at Second Stage, and Falling for Make Believe, a play about the theater at ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

What Is Art Good For? Two Plays Answer the Question

Ghost Road Company adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne as Zombie Joe's does Oscar Wilde

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 >>

Duncan Roy: Director Trapped in Men's Central Jail

Film director Duncan Roy's three-month nightmare that wouldn't end

Safe House Review: With Denzel on Autopilot, Ryan Reynolds' Bod Takes Center Stage (Again)

"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds working out flashed on the screen. She then went on to fiddle with her BlackBerry for half the movie. Based on those two actions, she is, I think, this scat ... More >>

Shame Review

Michael Fassbender naked in Steve McQueen's latest film

Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

Joel DaavidTony Gatto and Lulu Brud, in Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" at the Lillian​Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. ​ Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo performance abou ... More >>

Random Patterns Scores Claymation Short About Animal Infidelity/Bunny Art

Random Patterns scores claymation short about animal infidelity/ bunny art [ mp3s]

Attention Book Fetishists: Clothbound Penguin Classics Are Here

​The much-anticipated cloth-bound editions of Penguin classic books are finally out in the US. They are designed by Penguin senior designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Instead of the usual stodgy painting of the author on the cover, these have clever illustrations that pick up on some iconic image ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

Boy Snubs Girl, Girl Beheads Boy

Al Pacino goes Wilde

4 Reasons to Be Glad Bush Is Still President

Theater Reviews

For March 3 - 9

4 Reasons to Be Glad Bush Is Still President

Letters

Message From Beyond

Another look at the Republican convention

Radio Provocateur

Phil Hendrie conquers the AM dial one deluded caller at a time. So why can't he get his mug on TV?

A Poisonous Book

Oscar Wilde’s debut novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray

A Poisonous Book

Oscar Wilde's debut novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Laugh Factory

Edited by Kateri Butler

American Idols: Director Jack Hill, Grindhouse Guru

Venus de Me

The waxing of male beauty

Future Sounds

“I Am a Bullet!”

Cult legend Donald Cammell

Time-Warped

The high cost of forgetting in Memento and The Legend of Rita

Glamour Guys of Geezer Gulch

The beautiful butt-ugly truth about Space Cowboys

Dreaming Castaneda

Images of a 20th-century sorcerer