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The Road to Bali

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 >>

Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-De-Do

Nerdy Nerd Nerdfaced Nerdery: Chris Hardwick and Peter Levin Launch Nerdist Channel on You Tube

Nerd. What was once a word used to assert adolescent alpha male dominance over the guy who would eventually become your boss is now a nearly complete empire run by the once-oppressed. Unlike the Habsburg, Incan or Qing, this one has its own channel on YouTube, complete with Weird Al , Neil Patrick ... More >>

Jean Paul Gaultier Stars in Bizarre Videos as Diet Coke's New Creative Director

Jean Paul Gaultier, designer of Madonna's epic cone bra, now is set to style another icon: Diet Coke. The fashion designer was just named Diet Coke's new Creative Director for Europe and, as part of his creative duties, will create limited edition Diet Coke bottles and cans. According to his state ... More >>

Who's Hungry Puppet Theater Adds Show

Who's Hungry, a series of experimental puppet plays about hunger, proved so popular when it opened last week that another show has been added. The short-running play, which uses puppetry to weave together the oral histories of five homeless and hungry Angelenos, debuted to a packed house. For this ... More >>

Fairy Tale Theatre 18 & Over

It's a Brand New Year, So Let's All Celebrate the Water Dragon!

The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse

Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

WAYNE'S WORLD

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Holiday Show, The First Jo-el, Diva on the Verge

Also, Bob Baker's Nutcracker, Broadway Holiday and more

Bob Baker's Nutcracker

Dead Man's Bones Performs at Old Folks Home in New Video

Dead Man's Bones Performs at Old Folks Home in New Video

STOP IN THE NAME OF MOTION

'The Dark Crystal' and 'Labyrinth' Artists Brian and Wendy Froud Appear at Comic-Con

I have a vivid memory of seeing The Dark Crystal at a movie theater as a young child. It was beautiful and, at times, a little scary, but still completely captivating. Much of the otherworldly look of The Dark Crystal is attributed to Brian and Wendy Froud. Brian was the conceptual designer for the ... More >>

BODY PILEUP ON THE 101

ARROYO GOOD TIME

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live: More Con Than Concert

Tuesday night, Aqua Teen Hunger Force co-creator and writer Dave Willis stopped by El Rey Theatre with comedian Dana Snyder, best known as the voice of Master Shake, as part of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live tour. Now you might be wondering how an eleven-minute cartoon can manage going on a cross-c ... More >>

Oh, Those Riotous Comedies

The Marriage of Figaro and The Playboy of the Western World

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

18 years after a bruising fall, Paul Reubens returns to an L.A. stage

Bob Baker's Holiday Spectacular

I'LL BE HOMO FOR CHRISTMAS

Curing Christmas Kleptomania

Hello Kitty Goes Goth

Shannon Cottrell​ Click here to view Shannon Cottrell's slideshow from Hello Kitty's Bats and Cats Masquerade. If there's one song that can drag me to the dance floor anytime it's played, it's "Lady Shave," a weird, minimal synth gem from Fad Gadget. Friday night, when DJ Amanda Jones (Maled ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Burning Man Meets Hollywood, Mustache Circus, Shaun of the Dead Outdoor Screening, Swimming with Sharks Pool Party

Now in the final stretch of summer, each weekend we scramble to take in as many decadent hotel pool parties and outdoor film screenings as possible before the long days and warm nights end and we're forced back indoors to get our drink on at crummy dive bars. This weekend we went Swimming with Shark ... More >>

$9.99: Tatia Rosenthal’s Mighty Tenner

Director expands the form of the animated feature

LOCALS ONLY

Ladies and Gentlemen ... Carol Channing!

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

The Wages of Greed

"Family, Food, Fun and Sun"

Flier of the Week: Becky Stark and Ron Rege as The Mystical Unionists

This should be a cool opening. It features singer Becky Stark and drummer/comic artist Ron Rege (both of Lavender Diamond) as The Mystical Unionists. Here, this is from the press release of the opening at the Hope Gallery, a joint project of the Family bookstore, and the record label Teenage Teard ... More >>

Post-modern Circus

Frankenstein (Mortal Toys): Small Wonder

Movie offers the world on a string

Best Place to Find a Dead Clown

BRUTALITIES OF THE SOUL

Takeshi Kitano's Dolls

Brutalities of the Soul

Takeshi Kitano’s Dolls

Monkeys and Marionettes

Stewart vs. Crossfire and other comic battles

Stuff

The sculptures of Lynn Aldrich, the paintings of Dennis Hollingsworth and the puppets of Anaphoria

Insane Clone Posse

From Down Under to Iberia

Members Only

Less Is More?

The Eighth Annual Common Ground Theater Festival

Act II

New York theater comes back

Bliss Out

Filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s world of feeling

The Taymorization of Disney

A backstage look at The Lion King

D.C. Diary

Downs and ups of a protest