Hal Holbrook

I Am Not Mark Twain

Val Kilmer Tells Us Why the World Needs Another Mark Twain Solo Show

Promised Land Review: Gus Van Sant Directs a Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski

From China to Pompeii: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see this week: Friday, Oct. 12 Dying to take that long-overdue visit to the Getty Villa? The museum's outdoor film series, presented in conjunction with its exhibition "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection," might just be the great ... More >>

The Mark of Excellence

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Thurgood, As the Globe Warms, I'm Not Here Anymore

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and more

Thurgood

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: Two Plays by Yukio Mishima

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEAR​NEW REVIEW GO TWO PLAYS BY YUKIO MISHIMA ​Photo by Yukata Takeuchi Perhaps most notorious in the West for his sensational, 1970 suicide by seppuku, controversial poet-novelist Yukio Mishima was also a pl ... More >>

Movie Reviews: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Planet 51, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Also, The Messenger, That Evening Sun, Defamation and more

PBS' L.A. Times Documentary Rebroadcast

If you missed Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times, PBS's documentary about the Chandler family and the city's newspaper of record they once controlled, be sure to catch the rebroadcast this Saturday at 9 p.m. on KCET. (Or watch it online on the station's Web site.) It's a hypnotic train-wrec ... More >>

2007 Film Poll: If It Bleeds, It Leads

Dark and violent movies top the year’s best. What are we — at war or something?

Hal Holbrook: A Chance to Be Himself

The character actor in full bloom

Penn Journeys Into the Wild

Nature versus nurture

After the Fall

Oliver Stone at ground zero

Electile Dysfunction

When “south of the border” means America

Better Than Alright

The good news about the kids in Our Town

Signifying Nothing

The sound and fury of David Mamet

Heavy Bad Mojo

Cowboys, Indians and plastic women