Marquis de Sade

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Yes, Polka

Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. Also, recommendations for Theatricum Botanicum's new work Merlin: The Untold Adven ... More >>

Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including One Actor's Excursion into Peruvian Drugs

Michael Kass' one-man show, Ceremony, about his journey to spiritual enlightenment via Peru, is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and this weekend's theater listings, see below. This week's theater feature, on the shadows that govern our lives, looks at Shakespe ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Watson and Holmes, Together Again

This week in L.A. theater, Jamie Robledo's Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini was our pick of the week, while ModRock at the El Portal also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. Our stage feature is an interview with Val Kilmer about his new Mark Twain solo show at the Kirk Douglas T ... More >>

Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013: Our Preview

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 >>

Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including Broadway's Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson

Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration saga Long Way Go Down at the Art of Acting Studio, and for the silly Aussie import Priscilla Queen of ... More >>

The Young and the Heartless: The Gronholm Method and No Love, Reviewed

Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend at Cinefamily

Sapphire's The Kid Tells the Violent Story of Precious' Son

Sapphire's The Kid: Push Author Discusses Sex, Violence and Child Abuse in her New Novel About Precious' Son

Courtesy of the authorSapphire​ Fans of Sapphire might be surprised to discover that The Kid treads even darker waters than Push, the basis for 2009's Academy Award winning film Precious. In Push, Sapphire's stream-of-consciousness narrative relays the journey of Precious' son as he struggles ... More >>

Blood Drops Keep Falling on My Head: Debbie McMahon's Grand Guignolers

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Stage Raw: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas

Stage Raw: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ex-Presidents

Stage Raw: Underestimating Public Intelligence

Art Around Town

At the galleries

Californication: Cock and Bull

David Duchovny plays it nude; Bob Saget is kinda blue

Theater Reviews

Including Corpus Christi and Marat/Sade

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Corpus Christi, Marat/Sade and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

Film Reviews

Restoring Pasolini

Thirty years later, new questions arise about who murdered the Italian cultural giant

Desperadoes

Going mad inside the debate bubble

The Aesthetic of Excess

William T. Vollmann on his 3,000-page tome and the vocabulary of violence

Upchuck the Funk

Welcome to the Jungle

Whip It

Whip it good

The Green Monster

Tom Green, from the great wild North; plus, Dick and Paula, and Joe Bonanno

Denizen of Iniquity

Donatien Alphonse François, a.k.a. the Marquis de Sade