Reviews

With Sarah Azcarate’s direction, the stars of this Altadena Music Theatre production of *Little Shop of Horrors* bring hilarious timing and appropriate energy...

Chances are, you’re among the many people who have not heard of Shakespeare’s play Pericles. True to its artistic vision, Boston Court Pasadena brings...

Pastoral and post-apocalyptic, the new film from Ridley Scott, "The Dog Stars," bears a distinct resemblance to "The Odyssey," but to me was a much easier film...

Halfway through "Franz," the new biopic by Agnieszka Holland about Franz Kafka, the writer is reading from the manuscript of "The Trial" while his cigar-smoking...

The show is the H Foundation’s first modern art exhibition this year and Shen’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Admission is free, and the...

Growing up in the early 1960’s I read Marvel comics, back when they were twelve cents a...

“GREASE is the WORD!” a local man remembers his young niece announcing back in the ’80s. That seems like an auspicious (and Biblical) thought: “In the...

At 7:00 pm on July 25, 2026, OcTech, Caltech's choral octet, made the cozy, wood-paneled walls of the Morgan Library ring with music for the last time. The...

Singer-songwriter Dave Barnes, along with four other artists, brought a warm touch of country music to a cool evening at Memorial Park in Old Pasadena on June...

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About two-thirds of the way through Disclosure Day, the new film by Steven Spielberg, one character turns to another and says, “What the hell is going on?”

Think of "Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy" as a sort of octopus with its tentacles in the past, pulling together nearly 60 artists from 70 works in an exhibition...

It’s not too early to begin compiling a list of the best films of...

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Before their ubiquitous hits of "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot," Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe created "Brigadoon" in 1947, their first musical to achieve a...