Joseph McCarthy

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

A Look Back at the Legendary Comedy Duo Bob and Ray

If there's such a thing as a funny gene, Abby Elliott inherited it. When she showed her comedic chops during four seasons of Saturday Night Live, she became the third generation of her family to grace the show. Not only is her father, Chris Elliott, an SNL veteran, but so is her grandfather, Bob Ell ... More >>

Voter Fraud in Vernon

Chamber accuses nine ringers of voting in Vernon to steal a city council election

Ray Bradbury, RIP: Fahrenheit 451 Is Still Misinterpreted. We, Not Government, Are Enslaving Ourselves

Ray Bradbury, in a 2009 interview with LA Weekly at his Cheviot Hills home, explained with gusto a fact that shocked millions of fans: Fahrenheit 451 was not a warning about government mind control. The world got that wrong. His warning was, we are doing to ourselves -- enslaved to glowing screens. ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry on Why Music Makes Us Lusty

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Where Cute Meets Evil: Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal Talks Political Animals, New Book

Robbie Conal"Read My Apocalips"​You've seen his work before. Perhaps in a gallery like Track 16 or wheat-pasted across some L.A. street-side, traffic light switching box. Perhaps you saw 2002's rare "Secretary Of Offense" poster depicting a wrinkly Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney posing as "Dr ... More >>

Crossing Forbidden Boundaries

Gay love in Israel and Iran

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

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

False Witnesses in Oleanna and The Crucible

Bitch hunts of the American theater

Stage Raw: Ten to Life

Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

Also, The Fantasticks, Courting Vampires, A Number and more

The Crucible

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stormy Weather

Theater Reviews: Jane Austen Unscripted, A Skull in Connemara, Model Behavior

Also, The Todd and Molly Show, Dai, Stormy Weather and more

Stage Raw: Phil Newby

PHIL NEWBY A memorial service was held at Sacred Fools Theatre on Sunday for that company's young and beloved actor who was found in his apartment last week. More on Phil to come in the print edition one week week from Thursday. At your fingertips: This week's Theater Feature on Jim Leonard' ... More >>

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Boomer Town

Taking L.A. back to the Summer of Love

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted

L.A.’s august Pulitzer honoree says it was never about censorship

Histories of Violence

In the best films of 2005, the past came back to haunt

Clooney Vision

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

The Knightly News

George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

The New Blacklist

Corporate America is bowing to anti-gay Christian groups’ boycott demands

A Prayer for Rev. Al

Let him buy his soul back from the Republicans

Raging Gracefully

Days in the life of Sunset Hall

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

The History of America: Abridged

John Henry Redwood plays the butler to four presidents

Los Angeles: June, 2002

A semi-comic fantasy about an aspect of the future that may prove pertinent to L.A.

Going With the Flow

Operation Miscue

How legal problems, cultural shifts and internal turmoil muffled America’s radical anti-abortion movement, and why the battle isn’t over

Chicken-Hearted

The hatching of memory

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Immovable objects, irresistible forces

It's a Small, Small World

From Liberty Heights to Sleepy Hollow