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The playwright, Eric Anderson, was a child in 1955 when Hollywood arrived in a small local Kansas town to film scenes for the movie "Picnic," starring William...

Reminding us of the thin line between life and death, Jon Pylypchuk’s exhibit, “I Got Love for You,” which opened on May 20th, is now on display in...

As part of the salute to Sondheim, a series of events at the Pasadena Playhouse, we were treated to A Little Night MusicSmiles of a Summer Night. through...

In her fourth feature with writer/director Kelly Reichardt, Michelle Williams plays Lizzy, a Portland, Oregon sculptor trying to finish her new work in time for...

With its 307 graduates in well over two dozen disciplines, the 2023 ArtCenter Grad Show presented a curated vision of future shock. By Garrett Rowlan Music,...

As light as its title, Air is an easygoing yet absorbing docudrama about how Nike coaxed a hot young basketball player named Michael Jordan over to their...

A Caltech “spacey” (out of this world!) theater experience. By Carol Edger Germain It is a good idea to arrive early and read the Playbill. The...

The Clive Piercy exhibition at ArtCenter’s Williamson Gallery is a reminder of the influence of Los Angeles on at least one Englishperson. Like David Hockney...

Willem Dafoe plays an art thief who, after breaking into a wealthy architect’s New York penthouse to steal three priceless Egon Schiele paintings, finds...

Another entertaining and thought-provoking offering from The Echo Theater Company, performing at Atwater Village Theatre. By Carol Edger Germain If you are not...

Written by Rosie Narasaki, directed by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck, and featuring an all-Asian American and Pacific Islanders cast, AAPI playwright, and a...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru – translated as “to live” in English – is such a bona fide classic that it begs the question, “Why...

I knew almost nothing about Aftersun going in, except that its story involves a father and daughter going on vacation and that its star Paul Mescal received a...

“FIBERS”—an exhibit featuring textile artwork, opened on February 22nd at the Alexander Hughes Community Center of Claremont, and will be on view until...

It was just a couple of years ago when I finally caught the 1930 screen adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark...

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is epic yet kooky, family-centric yet overstuffed, as if Robert Rodriguez had been given $200 million to make one of his Spy...