Henry James

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 >>

Ghost-Writer

The Turn of the Screw

French Stewart as Buster Keaton, Back in L.A. in Vanessa Claire Stewart's Stoneface, Plus All Latest New Theater Reviews

Tony Abatemarco's family drama Beautified, at Hollywood's Skylight Theatre, is our Pick of the Week. Recommendations include Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at Hollywood's Underground Theatre; and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper at North Hollywood's Theatre T ... More >>

The Heiress and Cyrano

Each play asks: Is this love, or a con?

Judy Holliday, a Gay Mormon Boy, and More New Theater Reviews

Jessica Abrams comedy about Hollywood, The Laughing Cow traffics in stereotypes but is nonetheless so delightful, says reviewer Rebecca Haithcoat, it grabs this week's Pick of the Week. Here are all the latest New Theater Reviews, or you can find them after the jump. Also, check out this week's st ... More >>

Village Books in Pacific Palisades, From Its First Book to the Last

SCREWING AROUND

The Dinner Divide, Discussed: Or, Food Class in America

​ In her November 22 Newsweek article "The Dinner Divide," Lisa Miller dissects the latest Barneys ad campaign, writing that "food is no longer trendy or fashionable," but instead simply "fashion." As evidence, she cites one ad for an $80,000 diamond pendant garnished with octopus tentacles. ... More >>

Yippee Ki Yay, Fils de Putain

Cowboy diplomacy from our man in Paris, John Travolta

Bright Star's Tone Poem

Jane Campion films John Keats' great love affair

Market Report: Shiso and Assorted Greens (& Shishitos) at Coleman Family Farm

Farmer Bill Coleman of Coleman Family Farm in Carpenteria has a market stall that partly resembles an arboretum, partly a secret garden on display. This morning at the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market, where Coleman parks his truck and his greenery and his family almost every single week, the t ... More >>

Box of Broken Dreams: In Search of a Soul Lost and Found in L.A.

A young photographer's belongings are abandoned on a Hollywood street, leaving our writer to piece together the fragments of his life. Video extra: excerpts from a life on DVD

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

Movie Reviews: Indestructible, Reprise, Water Lillies

Also, Unsettled, Up the Yangtze and more

Aging Disgracefully

Trying and Quartet look at the costs and benefits of growing old

A Fan's Notes

A few good, recent books

A Full Life

Claire Messud on marriage to a critic, diapers and The Emperor’s Children

The Fallen Idol

Theater and Comedy Listings

For February 10 - 16 cvc

Theater Listings

For February 10 -16, 2006

Theater Listings

New Theater Reviews

Theater Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006

Rivette’s Spirits

The magic of the French New Wave’s most mysterious figure

Dirty Work Afoot

Pissed Off and Pissed On

Plays about rage and melancholy

Some Very Excellent Books

Sewing Circle

Lust, cash and Intimate Apparel

Oh, Henry!

Colm Toibín on The Master

Please, Sir, I Want Some Moore

Post cards from Cannes

Lands of Milk and Honey

Millennium Mambo and James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Land of Milk and Honey

Millennium Mambo and James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Pettibon in the Sky

Untamed and Untouchable

The indomitable heroines of Le Divorce and Sandstorm

The Critic

James Wood on literary fervor, bad movies and his first novel, The Book Against God

Botswana Blues

Norman Rush’s long-awaited second novel, Mortals

The Critic

James Wood on literary fervor, bad movies and his first novel, The Book Against God

Literature and Liberation

Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Teheran

Sexual Snobbery

The texture of Joseph Epstein

Reading in Wartime: A Post 9/11 Response

Between the Lines

Dennis Cooper talks to Raymond Pettibon about literature, emotion, the punk years and the ideal way to respond to his art

Eros Bound

Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl

Echo Chambers

Sounds from the young 20th century

Reader’s Block

So many books, so little patience

Writing in the City

Mona Simpson’s dilemma

Rogan’s Heroes

Twit Brit Meets Swank Yank

Roger Michell's half-assed Notting Hill

Moss Gathering