Katharine Hepburn

They Are Women, Hear Them Roar

The Rainmaker: Why We Keep Reviving That Old Chestnut

Santa Monica's Edgemar Center has a new production

From Lawrence to Rambo: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see: Thursday, December 27 The Rambo movies weren't always standard-issue action. One need look no further for proof than First Blood, the first entry in the series--not to mention the only one directed by Ted Kotcheff, whose Wake in Fright enjoyed a deser ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Nightmares, Satantango and Tati

Study: Regular Chocolate Eaters Are Skinnier

Katharine Hepburn once attributed her slim figure to "a lifetime of chocolate." Now a new study from UC San Diego has found that people who eat chocolate on a regular basis are indeed thinner than those who don't. The findings from the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, were publish ... More >>

Scotty Bowers' Full Service Claims Old Hollywood Was Seriously Kinky -- Our Investigation Suggests It's All True

It was a real-life Perry Mason moment in the public trial of Scotty Bowers' credibility. In his sensational memoir, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, Bowers claims he procured female lovers for Katharine Hepburn and had threesomes with Cary Grant and hi ... More >>

Have Yourself a Merry Little Judy

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Artisanal LA Spring 2011 Photo Gallery Top 5 Eats

In case you didn't have a chance to check out the nearly 90 vendors at the Artisanal LA spring 2011 show (or even if you did and just want to revel in some food photography) here's a photo gallery of the show. From chocolate and chai to salumi and sexy aprons, there was plenty to ogle -- and ta ... More >>

Jane Fonda at LACMA: Barbarella Barbie

Series spotlights the many costumes of a single search for meaning

Theater Reviews: From Hoboken to Hollywood: A Journey Through the Great American Songbook

Also, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, When Garbo Talks!, Wicked Lit and more

Only Boneheads Oppose the Subway to the Sea

Another Fine Mess: From Chaplin to Bromance

A history of cinematic LOLs in Saul Austerlitz's latest

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: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Copenhagen, Langston and Nicolas, Tempodyssey, The Women of Brewster Place

Also, Trog and Clay, The Philadelphia Story, Chicago and more

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Mystery Plays, The Arsonists, There Is Truth, Love Is Real

Also, Richard & Felix: Twilight in Venice, The Drawer Boy and more

Stage Raw: The Mystery Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE ON THE L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO THE MYSTERY PLAYS ​Photo by Dlugolecki Photography Though its title alludes to the Biblical pageants of Medieval Europe, playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's 2002 pair of sup ... More >>

Stage Raw: LAPD in Bolivia

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE ON THE L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT IN BOLIVIA​The homeless advocacy theater troupe, Los Angeles Poverty Department, has been touring Bolivia for two months with a stage production of Agentes y A ... More >>

Kataki, The Narrow World, Stage Door, Exiles

Also, Stomp, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Sweeney Todd and more

Stage Raw: Stage Door

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingNEW REVIEW GO STAGE DOOR ​Photo by Kelsey Edwards In 1936, when Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's comedy and homage to The Theater (that would be Broadway) showed the div ... More >>

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN . . . LIZZIE BORDEN!

Stage Raw: TeAda Fest

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. TEADAWORKS 7TH ANNUAL NEW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL Maria G. Martinez and Marcella Pabros-Clark. Photo by Jen Cleary Maria G. Matinez's Breakfast With my Mother ... More >>

Australia: Somewhere Over the Dateline

Baz Luhrmann's not quite marvelous land of Oz

About Faces

John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out — Way Out

On gay marriage, the presidential race, the corrupting influence of irony and the release of his new 'Til Death Do Us Part DVD

Movie Reviews: Body of War, Four Minutes, Shotgun

Plus, Baby Mama, Deception and other April 25 releases

Fun With Air

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Late, Great Kate: A Centennial Tribute to Katharine Hepburn

The Lady Barbara

Celebrating the centennial of a tough Hollywood cookie

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Altar Boyz, Bent, Kimberly Akimbo and more

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Critics’ Picks

Our guide to the best of AFI Fest 2006

Sex and the Antigirl

Anne Heche finds Men in Trees who like real women

Ask Mr. Gold: Chocolate Pretzels

In Glorious Technicolor

Three-quarters of a century on, the dye transfer epics haven’t aged a day

A Rheum of One’s Own

The creaky displeasures of Mona Lisa Smile and Calendar Girls

Men Who Would Wear Dresses

Letters

Screwball Sourpuss

The subversive comedy of Gregory La Cava BY

Echo Chambers

Sounds from the young 20th century

A Whimper From Venus

Fantasia

Gary Boas and his celebrity connections

Family Matters

This year's blockbuster domestic documentary

Real Country

The farmer's life on Frontline; plus Olivier, retrospectively, at MTR