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Lorenz (Larry) Hart, a name that may no longer ring any bells, was one of the keystones of the American Songbook.

Taking a chapter from the life of father and son ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax, writer Ben Shattuck centers this love story around the quiet joy of ethnic song collecting, a harvest, so to speak, of the bones on which this country was built.

Leni Riefenstahl glorified Nazi Germany with her beautiful, powerful films that encapsulated its philosophy of power, beauty, racial purity and morality.

“Love is never having to say you’re sorry.” Erich Segal (“Love Story”) couldn’t have been more wrong.

“Shucked,” the corn pone, corny, cornfed musical has landed, and for a brief time you too can indulge in the vegetable that is the same going in as it is coming out.

Get ready for some fun, laughter and unexpected raucous joy. “& Juliet” has arrived at the Ahmanson, and it’s one of the must-see events of the summer. Like “Mamma Mia,” presently being revived in New York, this is a “leave your brain at the door”

The Beverly Hills Arts and Culture Commission at its Aug. 12 meeting discussed how its work plan items fit into City Council priorities for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Director David Mackenzie and writer Justin Piasecki have set the stage for a mystery thriller that continues at a slow burn that gradually increases in speed and heat as the stakes are raised, and raised and raised yet again.

This homage to the 1988 classic “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” is spot on.

It’s catch-up time for some of those series that premiered in late spring, along with some new ones that are just emerging.