National Center for the Preservation

What is Performance Art?

Are Lady Gaga and Mitt Romney performance artists? The mainstream press has said so, and there's not much to stop them. As an artistic practice, performance art is what happens when an event or action is framed for an audience. Which means it could be anything, really. So what distinguishes self-awa ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the World's Sexiest Performance Artist

From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury design, this week's list feels particularly well-rounded. (Also check out our preview of Pacific Standard Time's Performance and Public Art Festival, which begins this week). 5. Italy in Westwood Galleria del Depo ... More >>

WE SAY, "GO NISEI"

Daniel Dae Kim Talks Lost, Hawaii Five-O for CAPE's Legacy Series

Will Lost be the next Star Trek, a show to spark decades of obsession whether or not it's currently on the air? Eric Nakamura, publisher and editor of the influential Asian and Asian-American pop culture magazine, Giant Robot, posed this scenario Saturday night inside the National Center for the Pre ... 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 >>

Stage Raw: Groundlings Enchanted Forest

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Elephant Man at Andak Stage CompanyGROUNDLINGS ENCHANTED FOREST Groundlings Enchanted Forest is one of 11 plays being reviewed this week. Photo courtesy of The G ... More >>

Stage Raw: Economic Downturn Hits CTG

Gigi Otalvaro--Hormillosa performs next weekend at Highways' Fringes -- Margins -- Borders performance festival. See item below. Photo by Heather CarducciIT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE DOWNTURN HIT THE NON-PROFITS The press office at the Mark Taper Forum announced yesterday that the the ... 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 >>

Allred v. Pugno: Post-Proposition 8 Smackdown!

Because of the spectacular, train-wreck-in-the-making aspect of this event, we are giving you, gentle reader, an extra day's notice about Wednesday's gay-marriage debate between Gloria Allred and Andy Pugno. Were any two combatants so different and yet so thoroughly matched in their steely determina ... More >>

Funny Stuff, Then Not So Much

What to do in L.A., January 9-15

Mural Talk

Theater Reviews

Including The Victorian Hotel, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking and more

Freedom's Just Another Word for Arty Videos, the Doors and Sippy Cups

What to do in Los Angeles this week