I Love Lucy

El Grande de Coca Cola and the Groundlings' Latest Show Bring Vaudeville to 2013

10 Hollywood Fringe Festival Shows That Sound Awesome

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *Our Latest Theater Reviews The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival is upon us, which means drama, stand-up, improv, music, socializing and lots and lots of one-person shows are headed to the area around Santa Monic ... More >>

If George R. R. Martin Wrote Every TV Show Ever

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Hollywood Museum Spotlights Women on TV, Including...a Naked Marilyn Monroe?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos Two extremely significant moonwalks took place on television. One occurred when Neil Armstrong took his first extraterrestrial steps. The other occurred when Michael Jackson walked backwar ... More >>

Ovation Awards 2012: Center Theatre Group Leads L.A. Theater Prizes Announced Last Night

Center Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Culver City, got lots of love at the 2012 Ovation Awards Monday night at downtown's Los Angeles Theatre. The company was awarded Best Season, while the Michael Arabian's staging of Wai ... More >>

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

Give These Guys a Hand!

Classical Music on Film

L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2012: The Winners

​​L.A. Weekly 's 33rd annual theater awards took place tonight at the Avalon in Hollywood, honoring the best work on our small stages from 2011, as judged by our theater critics. Small Engine Repair presented by Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater won production of the year, while Re-Animator The ... More >>

Lucy and This Guy With Congas

Ren Casey's Bayside High School Musical

Reviews of The Leopard and Don't Hug Me, I'm Pregnant, and more . . .

​John Leguizamo opened his one-man show, "Ghetto Klown" on Sunday. See review later this week, along with the extended feature on Bayside High School Musical, at Victory Theatre Center -- one of two new local productions now playing based on popular TV series.(I Love Lucy, Live on Stage opened at ... More >>

I Love Lucy® Live on Stage

Happy 100th Birthday, Lucy: Lucille Ball's Chocolate Conveyor Belt Moment

Thanks to YouTube and The New York Times' @SamSifton for a reminder of this one, the classic I Love Lucy candy wrapping episode. Lucille Ball would have turned 100 years old on August 6th, and even in black & white, she's still funnier than pretty much anybody else. If you want to try this at home ... More >>

Everybody Loves Lucy: Hollywood Museum/CBS Celebrate Lucille Ball at 100, I Love Lucy at 60

A. D'Alessandro'Hey Lucy, you sunk my battleship': Lucille Ball memorabilia goes wild with board games​ Within the fandom annals, before Gleeks and Trekkies roamed convention halls, there were -- and still are -- Lucy fans; a fervent bunch that communes frequently to pay homage to TV's greate ... More >>

Artisanal LA Debuts: 40 Local Vendors and Counting

​While there's certainly a place for big-time food corporations in the world -- if not, McDonald's wouldn't have sold its gazillionth hamburger -- we can't help but root for the little guys. The producers of small batch, homemade jams and jellies. The curators of salami and sausage whose garag ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL: AMY DRESNER: FUNNY GIRL!

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

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and 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 >>

L.A. Planning Commission Considers Doomscraper at old CBS studios

On Thursday morning, L.A.'s Planning Commission will consider a controversial development project that could drastically change a charming, old-style neighborhood, permanently alter historic buildings and add tons of traffic to an already congested Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.Jack BalingitHollywoo ... More >>

You’re a Pig!

If you want to be, at Koreatown’s Don Dae Gam

GO LA: Louis C.K., Cupcakes for AIDS Research and Jokes for Old Jews

Plus various other events to help you forget this cruel world, March 27-April 2

Stage Against the Machine

The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

The Arts Crisis Edition

Season of the Witch

What to do in L.A., October 24-30

Everybody Remain Calm!!!

In This House That He Called Home: Remembering Jack Marquette

Host of the floating parties Brave Dog, Theoretical, Phenomena and the Anti-Club

Theater Reviews: The Color Purple, High School Musical, Bob's Holiday Office Party

Also A Doll House, Paging Dr. Chutzpah, Seven Santas and more

Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

Also This Christmas, What Would Jesus Buy? and more

Best Smell to Remember

See’s Candy Factory

Rats, I Say!

¡Ask a Mexican!

Does the logo stay or go?

Theater Reviews

Reviews of Die! Mommy! Die! Fully Loaded, Dirty White Tuxedo Pants and a Brown Plastic Bag and more

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Fully Loaded, Greensward and I Do! I Do!

The Sci-Fi Boys

The Alain Delon Collection

Hot Wheels

Upscale Activism: Raquel Welch Rallies Beverly Hills Behind the Troops

Ask Mr. Gold

Tee Time

Grapes and Japes

Getting the Skinn-y

Not the Real World

2001 on TV

Same As It Ever Was

Nothing can stop the new fall season

Tori! Tori! Tori!

Darren Star’s Grosse Pointe. Plus, Girlfriends and Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce

Road Movies

Susan Sarandon in Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions, Kirsten Dunst in The Devil's Arithmetic, plus Strange World

Nudity, Gunshots, Sex, Feathers