The story of Amit Gilad and Brooks Ellis is one that Hollywood gatekeepers would decline for being too perfect. The biggest question for Gilad (Ellis was called away during the interview) was…
Arts & Entertainment
Judy Richards, a core member of Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA), hosted a Sages outing at the Autry Museum of the American West on June 8 to see a special exhibit, “California…
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz will be a true family affair at the Theatricum Botanicum, featuring members of founder Will Geer’s own family, daughters Ellen Geer and Melora Marshall, and…
As a Topanga resident, you probably have seen the Topanga Symphony Quartet playing around town—at the Topanga Library opening, the Topanga Film Festival opening, the Sages Holiday Senior Dinner every year, for…
Written by Terrence McNally and originally performed by the Manhattan Theater Club at New York City Center in 1993, the Topanga Actors Company presented a terrific version of A Perfect Ganesh at…
The Topanga Canyon Gallery presents “Juxtaposed Perceptions,” July 12-August 8, an exhibition of works by three artists with differing perceptions— Eugenia Shapiro, oil paintings; Idelle Okman Tyzbir, abstract multi-dimensional works and watercolors;…
THE THIRD PLAY IN THEATRICUM BOTANICUM’S 2017 REPERTORY SEASON, ANIMAL FARM, IS GEORGE ORWELL’S CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF POWER. SOUND FAMILIAR? Sir Peter Hall’s acclaimed adaptation of Animal Farm,…
WHEN WILL GEER WAS BLACKLISTED DURING THE 1950S MCCARTHY ERA “RED SCARE,” HE CREATED THEATRICUM BOTANICUM AS A HAVEN FOR OTHER BLACKLISTED ACTORS. How do lies become truths? An acclaimed stage adaptation…
On May 4, the Canyon Sages attended a special performance of The Merchant of Venice at the Theatricum Botanicum. The play was the highlight of an all-day program introduced to Sages a…
The Alien franchise and director Ridley Scott make a brilliant return to form. The question from my friend following the press screening for Alien: Covenant wasn’t amped-up energy as much as tempered…