“Funny though, I had always wanted to be an artist, long before the accident. “It examines the lives of two brothers who get involved with the same woman” Davis explained. 1 hit on the black music charts ought to translate into pop/rock success before long. In some instances, surfaces and interiors are [...]

Daniel Berrigan, an American Jesuit active in political movements against the Vietnam War and nuclear armament, is making his acting debut in “The Mission” He plays one of the missionaries “This is not just history” Berrigan says. Highlights included O’Dette and Collard’s exquisite playing of three lute duets by John Johnson, John Daniel and [...]

It’s ironic also that a radical pro-lifer is responsible for the clinic bomb that took a life. Nothing is set, however, not even the group’s name-which comes from an animal feed and the first syllable of founder Moses Pendleton’s name “We just might let ourselves be called ISO standing for ‘I’m So Obnoxious’ [...]

After listening to forecasts of cities destroyed and untold millions killed in a nuclear showdown with the Soviets, Kennedy turns to his FBI chief and says, “Do you still want to attack Cuba” An ominous figure in the play, a Major Smith, is shown hovering in the background with a black case containing the codes [...]

The news stations hawk a few headlines and then settle in with mini-documentaries that don’t require much attention. Two decades later, the nobleman lives frozen in 1064, still holding court, still doing penance in the hope that Pope Gregory VII will grant him a pardon for defying him. Others have been critically clobbered: [...]

There’s nothing better for the theater’s intellectual health than a scandal-of the proper sort. The Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State Los Angeles is nearly vacant. AT&T funded four plays that were presented by two Chicago theaters at the Kennedy Center last summer. That may be an appropriate subject for student papers, [...]

The California scene is scrutinized in the first two plays to be mounted in the monthlong event. Robert Harris, president of Universal Television, observed, “Costs have gotten so out of hand that management will be very tough in these negotiations about making any major concessions” (The first indication of management solidarity is expected to [...]

Although Walker loves the chance to offer local artists gallery space, it is the framing business, he says, that makes it all possible. “We live in such a diverse, vast country that, to me, confining people in a single stage space never seemed to work. As the prolific maker of room-size constructions-often built [...]

Most of all, it’s fascinating watching the macho men telling the “girls” they know what’s best for them. One is the irritable stage manager (Gregory Itzin, a clod who won’t brook any interference. Choreographer/director Gary Mascaro has been selected by Elizabeth Swados to choreograph “Beautiful Lady” the new musical by Swados and Paul Schmidt, [...]

“It used to take us two or three months to choreograph a piece” Dean says, “but we’ve learned to be quicker by working with other choreographers. “We were sitting in the car outside the Maxwell House Hotel when she went out for a jog” Cottrell said. She calls the new place Zapotec, after [...]