Stan Laurel

Have Yourself a Bloody Little New Year

Reviews of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Jolson at the Winter Garden; Laurel and Hardy; and more . . .

Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday.  Also check out this ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

Hollywood Man Shoots 33-Year-Old Roommate Along Walk Of Fame, Barricades Himself From LAPD For Four-Hour Standoff

Hudson ApartmentsScene of the crime​Updated after the jump with LAPD confirmation: The shooter was Paul Matthew Allee, and officers were forced to subdue him with a Taser gun. Victim was 33 years old. Update, 12 p.m.: The boyfriend of another resident blogs about the shooting. He claims the s ... More >>

David Sedaris at UCLA

Hudson ApartmentsScene of the crime​Updated after the jump with LAPD confirmation: The shooter was Paul Matthew Allee, and officers were forced to subdue him with a Taser gun. Victim was 33 years old. Update, 12 p.m.: The boyfriend of another resident blogs about the shooting. He claims the s ... More >>

Can't You Smell That Smell?

Hudson ApartmentsScene of the crime​Updated after the jump with LAPD confirmation: The shooter was Paul Matthew Allee, and officers were forced to subdue him with a Taser gun. Victim was 33 years old. Update, 12 p.m.: The boyfriend of another resident blogs about the shooting. He claims the s ... More >>

Danger-Humor

The sick, cathartic pleasures of the put-on kid show Wonder Showzen, plus the closet-anarchist boys of Stella

Empty Glasses

The sick, cathartic pleasures of the put-on kid show Wonder Showzen, plus the closet-anarchist boys of Stella

¿Por Qué?

The works of Paco Ignacio Taibo II offer a one-man walking tour of Mexican history

Healing Art

Dance makes a difference