What a harsh few weeks this has been. First, my beloved Houston Astros, in the most offensively inept performance I’ve ever seen, treated home plate as though it were covered with bird flu during the World Series. Read more...

The death toll of the war in Iraq is high ““ and getting higher. Over 2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the conflict began in March 2003, and this pales next to the number of dead Iraqis, which has been estimated by some to be in the tens of thousands. Read more...

Starting today, audiences will have the opportunity to see one of the greatest conflicts in the history of the theater. The setting is Broadway in May of 1849, a time period in which Americans held extremely anti-British sentiments. Read more...

Imagine Miles Davis playing at Schoenberg, Ernest Hemingway reading his work at Royce, or Michelangelo presenting one of his masterpieces at the Sculpture Garden, and one gets the idea. Read more...

Last weekend, getting into my venue of choice for Saturday night was a lot harder than I was expecting. It involved waiting in a line that wrapped around the building for over an hour. Read more...

In the middle of “Open Window,” Susan, a psychology graduate student, quotes several lines from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: “I pitied thee, / Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour / One thing or other: When thou didst not … know thine own meaning … I endow’d thy purposes / With words that made them known.” Such is the premise for the Pasadena Playhouse’s “Open Window,” a production that partners with Deaf West Theater to present an entirely deaf cast that communicates almost exclusively in sign language throughout the production. Read more...

While residing in Los Angeles, actor and filmmaker Scott Coffey was bothered by the way entertainment industry hopefuls wander from audition to audition looking for a break. Read more...