Rebecca Haithcoat

After Ferguson, the Play Bulrusher Feels Timely in Its Portrayal of Race Relations (GO!)

Rebecca HaithcoatAugust 26, 2014

“Why do you live where they do this to colored people?” asks 18-year-old Bulrusher, who grew up one of two black people in pastoral yet progressive Boonville, California. It’s the summer of 1955, and Vera, who’s just off a train from Birmingham, has shown her new friend a magazine photo......

Brooke Candy: The Rapping Provocateur

Rebecca HaithcoatMay 14, 2014

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. Brooke Candy is buddies with Miley Cyrus. You may have seen the Instagram photo of them kissing. Candy is a 24-year-old rapper, and yes, that's her real name. She and the......

Can an L.A. Kiss Arena Football Game Actually Be Considered "Theater"?

Rebecca HaithcoatMay 13, 2014

Inside four steel, egg-shaped cages suspended from the ceiling, go-go dancers dressed in itty-bitty cheerleader skirts, silver booty shorts, red bikini tops and gleaming black knee-high boots slither around poles and whip their hair. The squeal of a live guitar pierces the air. Pyrotechnic fountains boom and spew fireworks. A......

Amidst Donald Sterling Controversy, There's a New L.A. Play About Racism in Basketball (GO!)

Rebecca HaithcoatApril 28, 2014

This past Friday night, an audio tape allegedly capturing Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist comments against black people surfaced. His team, which has been on a wining streak, staged a silent protest at their Sunday afternoon game. Only a couple hours later, one of the leads in Amir Abdullah's college......

"Hamlet Gettin' All Crunk": Thug Notes Mixes Classic Literature With Hip-Hop

Rebecca HaithcoatApril 14, 2014

Your 10th grade literature teacher announces Hamlet as the next reading assignment and the class groans. Shakespeare sucks. Like anybody can understand what's going on when the characters are practically speaking a foreign language. But then she loads a YouTube video of Sparky Sweets, PhD, a thugged-out dude with a......

Barry Manilow Musical Harmony Shines Light on "the Beatles of Germany" (GO!)

Rebecca HaithcoatMarch 15, 2014

They were the Beatles of Germany. - Barry Manilow The looks, the moves, the sound, the infighting, the lust they inspired - they aren't as well known as the Beatles or New Kids On The Block or 'N Sync, but the late 1920s German group the Comedian Harmonists could be......

Harmony

Rebecca HaithcoatMarch 12, 2014

The looks, the moves, the sound, the infighting, the lust they inspired - they aren't as well known as The Beatles or New Kids on the Block or 'N Sync, but late-1920s German group The Comedian Harmonists could be considered the first boy band. And if the very good current......

Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Is Often Funny But More Often Infuriating

Rebecca HaithcoatFebruary 11, 2014

Chekhov seems a ripe target for Christopher Durang's teeth. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, last year's winner of the Tony Award for Best New Play, has a promising (at least for us theater geeks) plot: middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters find their lives upset when they gather......

Christian Bale Gets His Own Musical

Rebecca HaithcoatJanuary 17, 2014

Brittany Garms and Tara Pitt are discussing who would read the Mein Kampf book on tape. "Like, it couldn't be James Earl Jones reading the Bible. 'Christian Bale Reads Mein Kampf.' This is the beginning of a sketch. This is how it usually happens," Garms, 23, says as she and...

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun vs. Carolyn See's Golden Days , Round 1

Rebecca HaithcoatJanuary 18, 2013

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Any true rambler knows there is only......

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Rebecca Haithcoat

After Ferguson, the Play Bulrusher Feels Timely in Its Portrayal of Race Relations (GO!)

Brooke Candy: The Rapping Provocateur

Can an L.A. Kiss Arena Football Game Actually Be Considered "Theater"?

Amidst Donald Sterling Controversy, There's a New L.A. Play About Racism in Basketball (GO!)

"Hamlet Gettin' All Crunk": Thug Notes Mixes Classic Literature With Hip-Hop

Barry Manilow Musical Harmony Shines Light on "the Beatles of Germany" (GO!)

Harmony

Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Is Often Funny But More Often Infuriating

Christian Bale Gets His Own Musical

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun vs. Carolyn See's Golden Days , Round 1

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