Mary Poppins

Club 33: Disneyland's Secret $25,000 Dining Club

Club 33 may just be Disneyland's worst kept secret. In fact, depending upon who you ask, there are staff that will give you directions to the "hidden" entrance and others that still adamantly deny its existence. Try calling Disneyland for an official comment on the club and you will be told that the ... More >>

Weep for David Duchovny's Penis: On the Terribleness of Californication, Season 6

A Movie About Reddit, and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Thursday, Jan. 10 The Egyptian Theatre holds its 8th Annual Focus on Female Directors at 7:30 p.m., showcasing short films from a wide range of talents, including Academy Award nominee Julie Delpy and the new-to-directing trio of Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis. One of the most intriguing ... More >>

Top 10 Films of 2012

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered slots. I'd cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young and How to Survive a Plague. And were ... More >>

That Musical About Veganism Starring Jon Secada and Based on the Poetry of Supreme Master Ching Hai, Explained

Kelly Packard "is well known for her acting work on Baywatch," the emcee in a tux told everyone within earshot Saturday afternoon as Packard approached the red carpet, just before the debut of a new musical playing for one day only, titled Loving Silent Tears. The musical's publicity materials said ... More >>

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins, Moliere, 12 Angry Men and a Japanese Swordfight Play in This Week's New Theater Reviews

A bucket full of enthusiastic reviews this week, starting with the Pick of the Week, Sweet Thursday, Pacific Resident Theatre's stage adaptation of the novel by John Steinbeck. Also garnering good notices: Neo Ensemble Theatre's Epic Proportions, Moliere's The Fools at Santa Monica Playhouse, also i ... More >>

5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988

What's nice about the Arrested Development-themed art exhibit at Gallery 1988 Melrose is that you only need to have watched the first two episodes of the series to get the exhibit's title, "There's Always Money In The Banana Stand." The highly acclaimed but short-lived sitcom about the dysfunctiona ... More >>

Sexy Circus Comes to Venice: Accordions, Sirens and Lesbian Lady and The Tramp at Robin's Sculpture Garden

Mistress of the Shattered Path​ The circus came to Venice on Saturday night, where an almost exclusively female coterie of performers enchanted a small crowd under the stars with a bill of sultry music, inspired clowning and acts of derring-do. An accordion-heavy array of Bulgarian drinking ... More >>

Cat Run

David J. at Part Time Punks- Life (And Death) After Bauhaus and Love & Rockets

Lina Lecaro A ghostly image of J. ​David J. has always had a flair for the theatrical, and the busy ex-Bauhaus/Love & Rockets songwriter/musician brought it last night to Part Time Punks, presenting a dark cabaret-styled set with Portland's Adrian H and the Wounds as his backing band. The sho ... More >>

Gigi

Theater Reviews: The Hyacinth Macaw, Locked and Loaded, Gigi

Also The Sonneteer, Wrinkles and more

No Babysitter? No Problem! Top Five Rockin' L.A. Events You Can Bring Your Kid To

Got a kid? LA can still be your playground, and we're not talkin' about the park or those germy indoor jungle gyms. Whether you're a music lover, an art tart or a scenester who simply likes to be out and about, there are options that don't require a sitter or sitting out on grown-up fun. Read on for ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Sonneteer

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER ​Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>

Pastor Barry Minkow's Community Bible Church Hit by $50,000 Burglary; Ex-conman Minkow Has a History of Faked Burglaries

Barry Minkow should avoid wearing orange.​By Beth Barrett UPDATE with church response on next page. Pity the life of supposedly reformed conman Barry Minkow. Crime seems to follow him. Minkow says thieves smashed the glass door of Community Bible Church in San Diego, where he is senior past ... More >>

Really Cool Porpoises Prod Dick Van Dyke To Shore

GettyDick Van Dyke swears he was rescued by porpoises​ 1960s celebrity Dick Van Dyke, who starred in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Mary Poppins," could have used some assistance from the shows' magical characters after he fell asleep while on a surfboard. Luckily, some helpful sea animals pr ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Stage Raw: LADCC Winners

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on gay politics in Halam Iran and Salam Shalom THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS coming March 29! Nominees RSVP now to (310) 574-7208. Public tickets available at http://laweekly.comTHE 41ST ANNUAL LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWAR ... More >>

Empire Burlesque

Stage Raw: Outrageous Fortune

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThis week's stage features on The Best of '09 and The Best of the Decade.OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE Theatre Development Fund has just published its findings on "the life and times of the American play" in a comprehensive analysis (by Todd London with Ben Pesner, and Zannie Gir ... More >>

The Producer’s Brain: Sir Cameron Mackintosh and His Midas Touch

Theater Reviews: Noises Off, Mary Poppins, Carbon Black, The River Niger

Also, Landscaping the Den of Saints, Baby It’s You and more

Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

Stgage Raw: Maid in Los Angeles (Mary Poppins)

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeNEW REVIEW GO MARY POPPINS  ​Photo by Joan MarcusThe riveting theatricality of Bob Crowley's production design, climaxing in chimney sweep Bert (Gavin Lee) soft-shoeing ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Festen, Just Imagine, Never Land, Save Gertrude

Also, High Ceilings, The Philadelphia Story, The Blunders and more

Disney Expo Channels Peter Pan

Today in Photographs: August 27, 1964

​Mr. and Mrs. Walt Disney attend Mary Poppins premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater.Steve Young, Hollywood Citizen-News/LAPL

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Roman Polanski's Trial by Film Just days before a crucial Los Angeles court hearing, the Associated Press' Linda Deutsch explains how a 2008 HBO documentary stirred the film auteur to resolve  the legal charges that had kept him in European self-exile for three decades.One Picture Is Worth a Th ... More >>

Australia: Somewhere Over the Dateline

Baz Luhrmann's not quite marvelous land of Oz

British Invasion: A LACMA Retrospective

One more step toward recolonization?

The Natural

Chatterley adaptation makes the orgasmic organic

Patti Smith Is Starting to Annoy Me

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

Miss Congeniality

Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover in Miss Potter

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping today’s kiddie-movie landscape

I Am Not a Housewife

Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

Emma, Actually

In Nanny McPhee, the Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter gets to flex her comic muscles

Flat Land

Blissfully Ours

Last Life in the Universe moves off the festival circuit and into the art houses

Eight-Legged Freaks

New York trembles as Spidey, Doc Ock play patty-cake

All Gates Open

Summer Calendar

Lust and Liberty

Larry Clark’s teen dreams

This Waking Life

Richard Linklater’s dream works

Sleeping Beauties

The Sugarplastic’s escape to tomorrowland

Stranger, in a Strange Land

Dylan's visions, Lequizamo's Freak, Debbie Reynolds among the demons, Africans in America