House Un-American Activities Committee

The Temperamentals

Theater Reviews: I Never Sang for My Father, The Temperamentals

Also, The All Night Strut!, Veronika Decides to Die, Wait Until Dark and more

Stage Raw: I Never Sang for My Father

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (are back!)NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Escort and Fetish​"If the aim of naturalism in theater is the pitch perfect rendering of reality, then Cameron Watson's urbane staging of Robert Anderson's 1968 drama scores, " writes Deborah Klugman in this week's r ... More >>

Goodbye, Louie ... Hello!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (are back!)NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Escort and Fetish​"If the aim of naturalism in theater is the pitch perfect rendering of reality, then Cameron Watson's urbane staging of Robert Anderson's 1968 drama scores, " writes Deborah Klugman in this week's r ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Crucible, Goodbye, Louie ... Hello

Also, Tartuffe, Silent Sky, The Bluest Eye and more

Stage Raw: The Crucible

New Theater ReviewsTheater Awards ReportTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy Norris​Photo by Byron Turk is from Theatre Banshee's production of The Crucible, which critic Amy Lyons argues is a powerful manifestation of our culture of fear; Bill Raden was less impressed with Lauren Gunderson's new ... More >>

WHEN BANDS WERE BIG AND SO WERE MEN

New Theater ReviewsTheater Awards ReportTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy Norris​Photo by Byron Turk is from Theatre Banshee's production of The Crucible, which critic Amy Lyons argues is a powerful manifestation of our culture of fear; Bill Raden was less impressed with Lauren Gunderson's new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Scarcity, The Conquest of the South Pole, The Value of Names, Flight

Also, Sweeney Todd, Sherlock’s Last Case and more

Stage Raw: Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipNEW REVIEW GO ​Photo by Ed KriegerJUST 45 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY  Suffused with a near-Chekhovian mix of the wistful and the melancholy, playwright Henry Jaglom's world premiere comedy is a delight - a ... More >>

Castles in the Sky Poll

Curbed L.A. today features a bit of architectural whimsy -- not in the form of Buck Rogers-like blueprints imagined during the 1930s, but a list of city projects that never saw the light of day and which would make cool destinations on a iPhone GPS application. Some are dead and buried projects such ... More >>

Budd Schulberg, 1914-2009

Wikipedia/Dartmouth CollegeBudd Schulberg in the mid-1950s​"The first time I saw him he couldn't have been much more than sixteen years old, a little ferret of a kid, sharp and quick. Sammy Glick." So begins What Makes Sammy Run?, the quintessential, mid-20th century novel about Hollywood ambition ... More >>

Fear Itself: D.C. and Hollywood In and Out of the Closet

Wikipedia/Dartmouth CollegeBudd Schulberg in the mid-1950s​"The first time I saw him he couldn't have been much more than sixteen years old, a little ferret of a kid, sharp and quick. Sammy Glick." So begins What Makes Sammy Run?, the quintessential, mid-20th century novel about Hollywood ambition ... More >>

Hollywood Ten Anniversary

Sixty one years ago today, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo surrendered to U.S. Marshals, charged with contempt of Congress following hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo, who'd written scripts for Kitty Foyle and A Guy Named Joe, was among nine other Hollywood writers and d ... More >>

Lucille Ball: Better Redhead Than Dead

UCLA's digital photo archive is a wondrous online arcade lined with moments from L.A.'s past. I'm reminded of this whenever perusing images from the city's contentious past, whether it's a picture of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder suspects or of local Reds picketing City Hall. One endearing image from our ... More >>

Enter, Stage Left

The education of John Howard Lawson

It's a Wonderful Life?

Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

Tête Offensive

One brainy farce and an angry debate

The Contender

Elia Kazan, with a smile

Outliving the Bastards

Frank Wilkinson, 1914–2006

Clooney Vision

Good Night, and Good Luck, a searing requiem for the Fourth Estate, raises questions about truth and paranoia today

Deep Throat’s Crimes

Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder

The Scum Always Rises

Bertolt Brecht returns to Los Angeles

Hollywood Lived Here

The semi-glorious and sometimes gory history of Hollywood apartment living. (Part of LA Weekly's special apartment-living package.)

The End of Outrage

The semi-glorious and sometimes gory history of Hollywood apartment living. (Part of LA Weekly's special apartment-living package.)

Hollywood and Kvetch

Is there room for three performing-arts synagogues in L.A.? Apparently not

Einstein’s Sky

Of saints and scientists

Rebel, Rebel, Your Face Is a Mess

Why protests fail . . . and fail

Brecht in the USA

Why protests fail . . . and fail

Throw the Bums Out

Why protests fail . . . and fail

When Bad Is Beautiful

The uncompromising Gloria Grahame, at UCLA

Circle Jerks

Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller

Explaining John Ford

The definitive account of America’s greatest filmmaker