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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Based upon the New York Times bestselling book of the same name, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an original exhibition created in partnership with the book’s co-authors: journalist Irin Carmon, a national reporter at MSNBC, and attorney Shana Knizhnik, who founded the popular Tumblr that earned Ginsburg Internet fame […]
Find out more »“Last Call” at Open Fist Theatre Company
In this semi-autobiographical dramedy by writer/producer Anne Kenney (Outlander, Switched at Birth, L.A. Law), the Vaughn family’s go-to defense mechanism of sarcasm and mordant humor falls short when the aging parents hatch a not-so-funny way to avoid the retirement home. Jan. 18 through Feb. 23: Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:p.m. & Sundays at 2 p.m. […]
Find out more »One Woman, One Festival, Three Plays
Dynamic, award-winning solo-actress and local, Pam Levin will launch 2019 with something that hasn’t been done at Sherman Oaks, Whitefire Theatre Solofest 2019. She will perform three plays on three different days. On January 16th, Levin brings back her original hit Tales of Modern Motherhood which she performed to sold out audiences off-Broadway, at the […]
Find out more »The Cripple of Inishmaan
Inspired by the real-life filming of the documentary Man of Aran, Olivier Award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy is set on the small Aran Island community of Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) off the Western Coast of Ireland in 1934, where the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighboring Inishmore (Inis […]
Find out more »“Hir” at Odyssey Theatre
A darkly funny, shockingly absurd and endlessly surprising vision of a world in transition by MacArthur genius Taylor Mac. Somewhere in the suburbs, Isaac has returned from Afghanistan with a dishonorable discharge, only to discover a household in revolt. The insurgent: his mom. Liberated from an oppressive marriage to Isaac’s father by his debilitating stroke, […]
Find out more »Paradise at Odyssey Theatre
Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions and American Oasis present the West Coast premiere of Laura Maria Censabella’s moving, funny and thought-provoking drama, Paradise. What is the science behind first love? Two outsiders, a gifted Yemeni-American teenager at a poorly rated high school in the South Bronx and her disillusioned biology teacher, form an […]
Find out more »Miss America’s Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me
Following last summer’s sold out run at The Edye, writer/performer Barra Grant is back with her darkly hilarious mother-daughter story: the true, inside tale of Grant’s seismic relationship with her mother, Bess Myerson. A beauty queen best known as the first and only Jewish Miss America, Myerson was an accomplished pianist, television personality, New York […]
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Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment
"Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment" highlights the influential photography of eleven award-winning female photojournalists. The exhibition is a tribute to the spirit and ambition of these forward-thinking and distinguished female photographers and underscores the momentous work they have done to bring narratives from all over the world to the pages of National […]
Find out more »Exhibition: Sara Berman’s Closet
About the Exhibition Take a look inside Sara Berman’s Closet—a one-of-a-kind exhibition by artists Maira Kalman (b. 1949) and Alex Kalman (b. 1985) inspired by the life of Maira’s mother and Alex’s grandmother, Sara Berman (1920–2004). At the age of sixty, Berman relocated to New York from Tel Aviv after ending a thirty-eight-year marriage. One morning, […]
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GROOVE LEXICON @ Upstairs at Vitello’s Supper Club
The Groove Lexicon is made up of some of Los Angeles’s finest touring and session musicians. Their credits as individual’s include artist such as Oingo Boingo, Englebert Humperdinck, The Rippington’s, Eddie Money, David Benoit, and many others. The group is co-lead by Pianist/ Arranger, Bill Fulton and Drummer David Anderson. Musical stylings include unique arrangements […]
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Linda Vista
"Might just be Mr. Letts’ best play yet." —The Wall Street Journal An adult comedy about immature behavior. Wheeler just turned 50. His marriage is over, his job is mundane, and the best years of his life appear to be behind him. A move from the cot in his ex-wife's garage to his own apartment […]
Find out more »The Mountaintop
By Katori Hall | Directed by Gregg T. Daniel —a masterpiece reaching historic heights April 3, 1968. Memphis. The Lorraine Motel. Room 306. Tomorrow, it will become the scene of one of our nation’s greatest losses. But tonight, it is just another stopover motel for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Full of vivid theatricality, poetic […]
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