“Here” is the magnificent Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. For the past 17 years, beginning at the age of 27, Maestro Gustavo Dudamel has been the ordained “gift” to Los Angeles, the honored and cherished Music & Artistic Director of the Los
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James Vanderbilt, as director and writer, has created a thoughtful, if flawed, film based on Jack El-Hai’s book, “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.”
“It Was Just an Accident,” the Iranian film directed and written by Jafar Panahi (“The White Balloon”), was the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes and, somewhat inexplicably, is France’s submission for Best International Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.
“Among Neighbors,” Yoav Potash’s powerful documentary, started simply and grew more complex and insightful as his explorations expanded over a 10-year period.
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” has finally twisted its way to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles after a national tour. Despite its short run on Broadway last year, it garnered two Tony Awards and three other Tony nominations.
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.