A&E Articles

Burning Heart Bluegrass joins forces with Chris Cerna and the Bluegrass Republic on Saturday, April 30, at Boulevard Music in Culver City to provide a high-energy evening of bluegrass done right. Be ready for hard-driving rhythms, hot licks, soaring harmonies, and maybe a few tender ballads, as well. Drawing its repertoire from old and new bluegrass classics, Burning Heart Bluegrass … Read More

The eclectic VOX Femina Los Angeles choir presents “Harmonious Women: Rocking the Universe” on Sunday, April 24, at 3 o’clock at Culver City Presbyterian Church. The concert features repertoire from three subscription concerts that make up VOX Femina’s 19th season, including a new commission by Abbie Betinis called “A Blessing of Cranes.” The choir will take an uncommon look at the … Read More

Launched as a 99-seat production at the Lillian Theatre, where it played to SRO houses and critical acclaim including a Los Angeles Times “Critic’s Choice” review, “Recorded in Hollywood,” the new musical chronicling the story of black businessman, record label owner and music producer John Dolphin, will receive a commercial run as a guest production at the 317-seat Kirk Douglas … Read More

Check out a  VIDEO about the “On the Town” production made by students Isa Berliner and Elise Park by clicking here!  The final weekend of “On the Town,” the spring musical by students of the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, opens Friday night at 8. The Culver City High School production concludes Saturday with stagings at 2 and 8 in the … Read More

[Editor’s Note: As Culver City’s honorary poetess laureate, Dr. Hoult addressed the City Council on Monday night.]  Many groups in Culver City help our citizens. One such group is fundraising during the month of March — Culver Palms Meals on Wheels. If someone is alone and has diminished capacity, such as a cancer patient, an aids patient, or someone recuperating … Read More

Tuesday is Fundraising Day for Culver City High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts. For everyone who has dinner at Chipotle, 9512 Culver Blvd., between 5 and 9 p.m., and shows a flyer (avpa.org), 50 percent of the revenue will be channeled into the dynamic AVPA program. Meanwhile, the AVPA’s Spring Musical, “On the Town,” resumes this coming weekend … Read More

Review of Black Panthers for Beginners and Civil Rights for Beginners.  When it comes to race, any discussion I might have necessarily begins with this admission: As a white man, I don’t know what it’s like to be black in America. If you are white, dear reader, then guess what? Neither do you. This doesn’t mean we can’t understand or … Read More

The West Coast premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s madcap new play “Women Laughing Alone With Salad” opens in Culver City on Sunday, at 6:30, at the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. Directed by Neel Keller, with musical staging by Ken Roht, performances for continue through April 3. The cast includes Lisa Banes, Nora Kirkpatrick, founding member of the Grammy-winning band … Read More

Pacific Resident Theatre, where Marilyn Fox is the artistic director, announces the extension of Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean through Sunday, April 10. A consummate raconteur and undisputed triple threat, Mr. Bean has become a familiar name in entertainment to families all over the country, for decades. His story gives audiences not only a look into the … Read More