Arts & Entertainment

You Name It!

Is this “Power to the People” or “Troll’s Stroll” or “Call the Dentist!”?  No, the woman standing in front of the colorful abstract multimedia piece for 10 minutes decided it is “Melt…

An Enemy of the People Speaks Truth to Power

Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, An Enemy of the People has been masterfully updated at the Theatricum Botanicum. Freely adapted by Theatricum’s artistic director Ellen Geer, the controversial 1882 Norwegian play now takes…

Loose Lips Poetry, Series, July 20

On Saturday, July 20, at 2 p.m., the Loose Lips Poetry Series will present its quarterly poetry reading that features writer Laurel Ann Bogen and special guest PaulA Neves.   Bogen is the author…

Meet the TCG Challenge: You Name It!

Hot off the success of the Artists’ Studio Tour, Topanga Canyon Gallery artists will, for the first time, curate a show of untitled works, and invite you—their audience, the general public, passers-by,…

Moby Dick—Rehearsed Sets Sail at the Theatricum

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or, the Whale As the lights come up on the play, Moby Dick—Rehearsed, a little-known adaptation by Orson…

Fourth of July Annual Family Barn Dance

Thursday, July 4, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Fifth Annual Family Barn Dance—Celebrate the Fourth of July at Theatricum Botanicum with a family hoe-down, the Fifth Annual Family Barn Dance, with live music, a pie-eating…

Twelfth Night—A Festive Tale at the Theatricum

What could ever be a more delightful way to open the Theatricum Botanicum’s summer repertory season than with an outstanding production of the Christmas-time revel, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, by William Shakespeare.…

Music from Four Centuries

The next free concert by the Topanga Symphony will feature four centuries of classical music on Sunday evening, June 23, 7:30 p.m., at the Topanga Community House. The eighteenth century will be…

Dark Phoenix: Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper

All the things left undone in the final X-Men movie would’ve made for a better ending. Twelve films in and, yes, the tagline is true: The X-Men’s greatest enemy is itself. If…

Dream Weaves its Magic

As we all know, when the sun sinks behind the canyon hills, there is magic in the night. And when the players took their places for the opening night (really a matinee)…