The view from Malibu Beach where the author spent happy days in her youth and now worries about her many friends as Los Angeles battles fires that have already consumed an area twice the size of Manhattan. ( Photo: Michele Willens) Reflecting on the LA Fires It’s difficult to ask for sympathy when one has a home in the Malibu Colony. But I am touched by all the concern my family... Voices 20 Jan 2025 | 01:15
Visitors to “Barbie®: A Cultural Icon” can sit in a life-size Barbie pink convertible and pretend that they too are Malibu Barbies. ( Photo: Youtube/Museum of Arts and Design) Need More Barbie? The Museum of Arts & Design has Exclusive East Coast Exhibit If there’s anyone who can one-up Taylor Swift...well, it’s that doll who became a smash hit movie, and is now pulling in... City Arts 10 Jan 2025 | 12:53
The four person cast of “Frank and Me,” includes (from left) Linda Miller, Jim Barone, Susan Mitchell and Robert Levey II. ( Photo: Debra Smalls ) “Frank and Me” at Triad is a Love Letter and Comeback Story for Director Linda Miller It’s not quite fair to say Frank Sinatra is having a moment....but then again, why not? The Apollo Theatre recently hosted... City Arts 02 Jan 2025 | 03:17
Lily Tuck, an UES resident who is a past winner of a National Book Award for fiction, has at 86 years old, just had her latest novel, “The Rest is Memory” published by an imprint of W.W. Norton & Co. ( Photo: National Book Foundation) Award Winning Author Reveals New Novel Was Sparked by a Single Image of Young Girl Tragically, it happened: the holocaust that killed eleven million innocent people in World War 11. From “Schindler’s List”... City Arts 02 Jan 2025 | 12:43
“The Wall Street Boy” is a financial espionage thriller about a tech whiz who runs afoul of authorities in Kenya after he amasses a small fortune using the Internet to play the stock market. ( Photo: ) “Wall Street Boy,” A Financial Espionage Thriller Set in a Dusty Kenyan Village The film is called ‘Wall Street Boy” (“Kipkemboi”) and yet it takes place in a rural poor area of Africa. The lead character... City Arts 09 Dec 2024 | 05:39
Annabelle Gurwitch, stars as Lily, a teacher who survived the 2018 shooting at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in the new docudrama “Room 1214” in which she returns and encounters her former students as they were. ( Photo: Hunter Canning) “Room 1214” Tackles Gun Violence Told Through Eyes of Teacher Who Survived Deadly School Shooting “In the dark we hear vague sounds of construction in the background. Then, closer, we hear footsteps in an empty hallway,... City Arts 26 Nov 2024 | 10:37
John Lewis a civil rights leader who became known as the “Conscience of Congress” is the subject of a new biography. ( Photo: Official Portrait of Rep. John Lewis) New Take on Civil Rights Icon John Lewis We may think we’ve read and heard—not to mention watched, if we were fortunate—everything about John Lewis. Jon Meacham,... News 09 Oct 2024 | 04:26
The new Jez Butterworth play, “The Hills of California” is one of more than a dozen plays written by, and starring, women now gracing theaters from the Great White Way to Off Broadway. ( Photo: HillofCalifornia.com) The Hills Are Alive...With the Sounds of Women’s Plays Jez Butterworth’s latest play has just opened on Broadway. “The Hills of California” is about a mother determined to turn... City Arts 07 Oct 2024 | 12:38
Dr. Adams (Frank Licato) and Richard (Ezra Barnes) are in therapy. Richard asks about hypnosis to recover his lost password to his bitcoin fortune. ( Photo: Theater for the New City) “Dickhead” a New Play That Satirizes How Tech Roils One Modern Family Here comes an off Broadway show sure to mess up our minds—hopefully in an instructive way. Think Norman Rockwell meets The... News 27 Sep 2024 | 03:03
Director Igor Golyak will have two plays running back-to-back at the Off Broadway theater Classic Stage Company. “Our Class” debuts Sept. 12 to November 3 and it will be followed by his own take on Shakespeare’s classic “The Merchant of Venice” starting on November 22. ( Photo: Courtesy of Arlekin Players Theatre ) Off-Broadway Double Header of Plays Directed by Igor Golyak at the Classic Stage Co. “Our Class” was such a success at the Brooklyn Academy of Music earlier this year that it’s moving Off-Broadway to Classic... City Arts 06 Sep 2024 | 01:17
Grant Woods, former attorney general of Arizona and longtime friend of Sen. John McCain, co-wrote The Ghost of John McCain but passed away in 2021, three years before the play finally was slated to debut Off-Broadway debut. ( Photo: Robbie Quinn/Wikimedia Commons) Democracy Takes Center Stage in Two New Off Broadway Plays It is only appropriate, perhaps, with a critical election coming up, that two new shows—relevant and timely would emerge.... City Arts 28 Aug 2024 | 05:26
Kelley Curran (left) and Frank Wood uses finger puppets to represent the characters from Trump’s inner circle who huddled in Trump Tower in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer who was promising to hand over incriminating info on Hillary Clinton. ( Photo: Carol Rosegg) Political Events in 2016 Form Backdrop for New Play Starring Frank Wood and Kelley Curran Playwright Catherine Gropper uses that now infamous meeting in June 2016 on the Trump Tower’s 25th floor between top campaign... News 14 Aug 2024 | 04:55
The company of Ain’t Done Bad, now in a limited off Broadway run at the Pershing Square Signature Theater. Photo: Matthew Murphy Dance Theater Hit:“Ain’t Done Bad” Opens at Pershing Square Signature Theater Three does not a trend make, but “Ain’t Done Bad,” which has just opened at the Pershing Sq. Signature Center, is the third... City Arts 19 Jul 2024 | 06:58
Rush Hemispjheres (1978): Brain-centric gatefold album cover by Canadian art / prog rockers. Original cover design by graphic artist Hugh Syme. ( Mercury Records) Brains Need Art Like Art Needs Brains When I first reviewed Your Brain On Art, by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen, it was a rather new idea: making the connection... City Arts 10 Jul 2024 | 12:54
Annika Beck competing in the second round of the 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying Tournament at the Bank of England Sports Grounds in Roehampton, England. ( David Iliff / Wikimedia Commons) Tennis Is Having a Media Moment Yes, the NBA finals are in progress, the Yankees are soaring, and Jets fans await Aaron Rodgers’ arrival from... somewhere.... Voices 17 Jun 2024 | 02:16
