Fine Arts

Beautifully staged and performed, Charles Randolph-Wright’s play “The Night is A Child” is a heart-wrenching examination of loss and coping with grief that is currently being staged at the Pasadena Playhouse. Read More »

A joyous celebration of Southern women, presented as a series of intimate musical portraits at the Pasadena Playhouse, Regina Taylor’s “Crowns” is a lively evening of overlapping monologues, soulful song, and even some dancing. Winner of four Helen Hayes awards, including Best Regional Musical, “Crowns” is actually based on an acclaimed coffee-table book. Taylor’s musical explores the lives of the “hat queens,” six women in the South whose stories of love, loss, identity, and sisterhood are exemplified by the hats that adorn their heads and the songs that voice their experiences. Read More »

On July 17, the Bridging USA and Japan Concert, culminating with Beethoven’s magnificent 9th Symphony, was staged at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles to a vociferous standing ovation. The entire audience leaped to their feet at the conclusion of a superb program of classical music, exquisitely and flawlessly performed by the acclaimed Asia America Symphony (www.asiaamericasymphony.org/), with David Benoit at the conductor’s podium. Read More »

“Pictures of the Year, International” (aka POYi), is the second exhibition of the new Annenberg Space for Photography. This current exhibit, subtitled “Visions of Excellence,” features the winning images from POYi, the oldest and most prestigious photojournalism competition in the world, now in its 66th year. Read More »

Craig Wright’s new play, “The Unseen,” is definitely not for the squeamish, nor the weak-hearted. An award-winning playwright (and creator of TV’s “Dirty Sexy Money”) Wright has turned his laser-intense view onto the dark depths of a hellish torture prison. Read More »