The red carpet premiere of Loving the Silent Tears: A New Musical, anticipated as one of the most star-studded, spectacular year-end events, will be held on October 27 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The event will also feature red carpet arrivals, an art exhibit and the live performance. Ranging from $45 to $75, Tickets are available now at the Grove Concierge, as well as Ticketmaster.com. The first of its kind in theatre history, Loving the Silent Tears will take the audience on an elevating journey across six continents and 16 countries, to tell a compelling story about humanity¹s…
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How far would you go to get that dream job? Just what would you be willing to do? Four corporate warriors come together in one room to compete for one senior management position using The Grönholm Method: a system meant to separate the weak from the strong. But the weak may not be as futile as they appear. A wicked comedy that feels like a thriller, it’s a fool’s game of betrayals, reversals and manipulations that will keep you on the edge of your seat.The Grönholm Method is on stage in Falcon Theatre in Burbank. Bijan Tehrani: How did you…
Last night, Sunday September 9/12 and at the residence of Czech Republic General Consul, I had the pleasure of listening to beautiful pieces of music played by Tereza Stanislav, Czech-Canadian violinist assistant concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 2003. “Stanislav is a remarkably fine violinist. Her tuning was spot-on and there was a sense of ease in her performance that was completely captivating” writes Calgary Herald. During this memorable evening Janáček sonata for violin and piano & “Pohádka” for cello and piano & A. Dvořák´s Dumky piano trio were performed by Tereza Stanislav, Accompanied by Robert Thies on…
The Hollywood Museum is a labor of love for Founder and President, Donelle Dadigan. Dadigan has documented, preserved and now exhibits the largest collection ever assembled of authentic costumes and personal effects of hundreds of motion picture and television studios, as well as the stars themselves including Marilyn Monroe, Russell Crowe, Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkin, and Michael Jackson. Today, Dadigan is the chairperson of the Hollywood Historic Trust which controls the sidewalks where the ‘Walk of Fame’ stars are located. She took over this duty from the late Johnny Grant, the honorary…
LOS ANGELES – On loan from the Capitoline Museums in Rome, the spectacular Lion Attacking a Horse will be on view at the Getty Villa from August 10, 2012 to February 4, 2013. Presented for the first time outside Rome, where it has not been on public view since 1925, the sculpture will be the centerpiece of a special installation that traces its history from antiquity to the modern era and showcases recent conservation work undertaken in Rome. Part of “The Dream of Rome,” a project initiated by the Mayor of Rome Giovanni Alemanno to exhibit timeless masterpieces from the…
On Saturday, August 11th, 2012 The Seyhoun Gallery in West Hollywood will feature the Photographic work of Sarama Esmaili entitled ” Magical desert garden and red city: Abyaneh – Kashan” The city of Kashan, in the province of Isfahan, Iran is known for its magical gardens and architecture resides as one of these fascinating locations for filmmakers and photographers alike. Its lush beauty is contrasted by its neighboring village of Abyaneh with it striking red clay structures and Desert. Abyaneh, by itself, draws thousands of university students every year to take advantage of what it has to offer for their…
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater and The Academy of Puppetry & Allied Arts will present “Bob Baker’s Celebration & Preservation Extravaganza,” on Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. The event has been created to guarantee a future for The Bob Baker Marionette Theater.This event kicks off the non-profit Academy of Puppetry and Allied Art’s fund-raising campaign to raise $2 million to adopt Bob’s puppet family and help build a future for the marionette theater, with the addition of a museum and school for puppetry arts. Charles Phoenix, a Los…
In conjunction with the exhibition Fracture: Daido Moriyama, LACMA will screen a series of films that offer a raw, street-level view of Japanese urban life while also confronting such poignant postwar themes as identity, gender, and alienation. These films, from the taut policiers of Akira Kurosawa and existentialist parables of Hiroshi Teshigahara to rarely-screened films by Susumu Hani and Toshio Matsumoto, shatter social and aesthetic taboos as they fearlessly delve into a bustling underworld of petty criminals, miscreants, outcasts, revolutionaries, and all other manner of stray dogs.This series is in two parts: May 11-12 and June 8 -9.FRI MAY 11Friday,…
Bernardo Rondeau, originally hired by the very missed Ian Birnie, is continuing in Birnie’s vein. Rondeau, who formally worked with Landmark, brings a historically knowledgeable and witty approach to the expanded Exhibition Film Series he’s been programming since Birnie left LACMA.Consider his provocative series High and Low: Postwar Japan in Black and White (shown In conjunction with the exhibition Fracture: Daido Moriyama) which continues next weekend alongside classics like Kurosawa’s “Stray Dog” and Nagisa Oshima’s New Wave masterpiece “Diary of a Shinjuku Thief” Rondeau offered Hiroshi Teshigahara’s existential fetishist “The Face Of Another” (the film shares stylistic explorations with films…
The Tuscia Operafestival, now in its sixth season in the historic papal city of Viterbo, will see its Californian debut with the opening of the Italian Opera Festival™ in Orange County, the pearl of Southern California, at the Soka Performing Arts Center of Soka University in Aliso Viejo. The series of events will begin on Saturday, May 26th at 5:00 PM with a press conference hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute (1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles) and its director, Alberto Di Mauro, and will end on June 2nd, the “Festa della Repubblica”, national Italian holiday commemorating the independence of the…