DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In this week's Don't Miss List: Corporate Cleopatra, Theater With a Spinning Platform and Highfalutin’ Ideas.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Chunky jewelry knockoffs and the latest clothing trends are found in excess in Downtown Los Angeles’ Fashion District. Something more unique is on display a few blocks away at South Park’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising: outfits from the five films nominated for the 2012 Oscar for Best Costume.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, in opera as in life, it all just comes together. So it is with Simon Boccanegra, which opened recently at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and runs through March 4.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Hula dancing and swimming are not often thought of in the same breath. That’s part of what makes the next production at East West Players so unusual.
DOWNTOWN NEWS - Five 'Don't Miss' events in Downtown this week.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Arcadia Bandini, the daughter of Don Juan Bandini, was the great beauty of Los Angeles in the mid-19th century. The Bandinis were landowners of prominence in San Diego, the city where Arcadia was born in 1827. Although they were Italian by background, the family moved to Spain several generations before Doña Arcadia's birth. Her father, a native of Peru, was the first Bandini to come to California.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Family dramas are always fodder for popular culture, and in particular the theater. It’s been this way for decades. The 1953 work A Raisin in the Sun is seen as a classic. Frank D. Gilroy’s 1964 The Subject Was Roses retains a punch, and was mounted in 2010 at the Mark Taper Forum. The long list goes on and on.