Theater and sociology converge at Mira Costa High School A.R. Gurney is perhaps best known for “Love Letters,” a two-person play that accrued lots of frequent flyer miles after its debut in 1990. Some years earlier, in 1982, “The Dining [...]
Last Saturday’s opening at the Creative Arts center in Manhattan Beach may have had competition from pre-Halloween parties, but those who attended were treated, rather than tricked, to some fine work by painters Andres Montoya, Margaret Lazzari, and sculptor Hiroko. [...]
The fate of “Gone With the Wind” hangs in the balance “Moonlight and Magnolias,” Joel Bryant is explaining to me, “revolves around [producer] David Selznick calling in Ben Hecht, one of the quickest punch-up screenwriters in the late ‘30s, and [...]
Trick or Treat, Move My Feet, Get Me Up Outta My Seat In its secularly observed state, Halloween is centered around fun. But how stressful is it when you’re faced with a big bowl of candy and are told to [...]
Wayne “The Train” Hancock brings swing back to country It doesn’t happen very often, but a couple decades ago, a music executive in Nashville actually spoke some truth. The man had just heard Wayne “The Train” Hancock sing. And he [...]
The photo essay reached its apogee in such weekly, large format picture magazines as Life and Look in the years before television installed itself in virtually every home. As advertising revenue decreased, so did the once widespread prevalence of those [...]
Nominations for the Ovation Awards, the highest honor for Los Angeles theater companies, were announced on Monday evening at the Autry National Center for the American West, and L. Trey Wilson’s “Something Happened,” which received its world premiere at Pacific [...]
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