Leonard Nimoy

With Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams Boldly Goes Back to Khan

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

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 >>

10 Awesome Photos of Space, From 'The History of Space Photography' Show in Pasadena

Four hundred years ago, stargazing was practically illegal. The Roman Inquisition sentenced Galileo for supporting Copernican astronomy, and most people still believed the earth was flat. Fortunately, science has since come a long way, and now, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has made space e ... More >>

Jackie Kashian: The Dork Forest

William Shatner Interview Outtakes: Star Trek Star on His Solo Show, Horses and Starbucks

William Shatner, as you can imagine, has a lot to say. Now 80, the Star Trek legend opens his one-man show, Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, on Broadway Feb. 16, before launching the national tour at the Pantages on March 10. Here are some outtakes from our William Shatner interview we feature ... More >>

Jackie Kashian Discusses The Dork Forest Podcast Performance at Meltdown Comics' NerdMelt

​ We're dorky for the hilarious comedy of Jackie Kashian, who brings her podcast The Dork Forest to NerdMelt at Meltdown Comics on Thursday, July 7, with guests Dana Gould and James Urbaniak. While on vacation in Australia, she kindly A'ed our Q's. Congratulations on 45 episodes of The Dork ... More >>

Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl! Jackie Kashian

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review: Michael Bay Destroys Chicago, Abe Lincoln and Our Brain Cells

Hero and his new hottie​ The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow moti ... More >>

'Beauty Culture' Exhibit Is Full of Hot Women. That's the Problem

© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me.​ The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>

Star Trek: The Motion Pictures

Reevaluating the Enterprise enterprise, midnights at the Royal

Oh, Camelot!

The Pasadena Playhouse takes a final bow. Again

Stage Raw: City Council Postpones Crisis Vote

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingCHECK BACK HERE MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESCITY COUNCIL POSTPONES VOTE, CULTURAL AFFAIRS PROGRAMS SPARED FOR T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Yes, You Can Do Something of Consequence

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingCheck here on Monday afternoon for the 2009 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards nominees!YES, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING. The local blogosphere has been generating a number of letters like ... More >>

FRIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Stage Raw: Wonder of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsNEW REVIEW GO WONDER OF THE WORLD ​Photo by Ed KriegerContemporary American farce has a hero in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who skews old-fashioned two-dimensional absurdity by surreptitiou ... More >>

Company of Angels Turns 50

And celebrates with its first director, Leonard Nimoy

Stage Raw: Comedies About the End of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsCOMEDIES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD​Poland's Theatre ZAR rehearsing Gospels of Childhood at the Barbican in London, where they performed last month. That piece is the first third of the ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

Faith and the Muse at Dragon*Con

Every year, thousands of sci-fi, fantasy and related fans descend upon Atlanta for Dragon*Con. Aside from a great schedule of panelists (William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy on the same panel! Terry Gilliam!), Dragon*Con seems heavy on night time entertainment, including concerts from artists like Volt ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

Lost in Space: J.J. Abrams' Younger, Buffer Star Trek

Bagels in the Dustbin: And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl

Josh Kun and Roger Bennett's secret history of Jewish-American music

Star Trek's Number One Dies

Majel Barrett, the tall beauty who appeared in 33 episodes of the original Star Trek series, died of leukemia today in her Bel Air home; she was 76. After portraying the ill-starred Captain Christopher Pike's Number One officer in the show's pilot, Barrett more often played USS Enterprise Nurse Chri ... More >>

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings!*

What to do in L.A., December 5-11

Name That Tune with Josh Kun and Leonard Nimoy

Spock's Jewish?

Star Trek Fashion Smackdown: Old vs. New, Plus New Movie Trailer

New Star Trek Trailer: Who had better style? The old 1960s Star Trek crew members or the new 2009 Star Trek crew members? By "new" I mean "new version of the old." The movie drops next year. I know you're already in line. Here are some fashion-related things to think about while you're setting up ... More >>

Vice Magazine's Tales of Colt 45 at King King

Photos and text by Guelda Voien While Vice magazine represents many things, most prominent is the value on stupid, constant debauchery. Crystal Antlers do their thing In terms of pointless excess, their unlimited beer-fueled event Monday evening, "Tales of Colt 45," met the requisite expectat ... More >>

Fury Over Jamiel's Law

Should a movement to protect kids be named after an alleged gangbanger?

Neil Hamburger: The LA Weekly Interview

Interview by Jonah Flicker Comedian Neil Hamburger released the musically excellent and thoroughly funny Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners (Drag City) this past April. Over the course of ten songs, Hamburger spins melancholy tales that make Johnny Cash sound like John Tesh and offers wry observa ... More >>

Leonard Nimoy's Heavy Conversation

A man in full

Theater Listings

For the week of Jan. 18-24

Thinking Outside the Black Box

How Company of Angels found its angels

Theater Listings

For the week of May 26 - June 1

The Blind Leading the Mauled

White tigers, white men and white mischief

The Familiar Hour

Enterprise, Smallville and “Adult Swim”

Life in the 31st Century

Matt Groening: Past, present, Futurama