Author Archives: Tom McEnaney

Michael Chabon is a storyteller on a mission. He is a man who has brought literary respectability to subjects as varied as bisexuality, baseball, pot-smoking professors and comic books. Name it. He’s got it. At 8 p.m. on March 2, Chabon, the 39-year-old father of three and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Amazing Adventures of […]

Some cultures believe that when a person’s photograph is taken, their soul is stolen. Well beyond the advent of the camera, British painter Lucian Freud’s portrait painting simply borrows his subjects’ souls, mixing them with his own, and subsequently transforming their minds and bodies into art that lives on its own. A retrospective of Freud’s […]

A woman in dark blue hugs her arms around her body, crouched and writhing. At her side a man tears at his hair in angst. Then with a surge born of invisible motivation, the figures heave themselves forward in a silent scream. This is how art comes to life, and the artist responsible is Bill […]

For those who know the work of Richard Price, it may seem a leap of the imagination to picture him seated comfortably behind a small table, autographing books for his admirers amid the ritz and glamour of Brentwood. Price, who will be signing copies of his new novel “Samaritan” today at 7 p.m. at Dutton’s […]

The Los Angeles-based BOTHarts theater company, including writer and actor Chris Wells, is fighting to keep “Liberty!” alive in the city of angels. “Liberty!,” a one-act play, turned ensemble production, written by Wells and performed by BOTHarts, opens Jan. 18 as part of the Hot Properties series sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission […]

Murder, insanity, sex and a robotic monkey had the crowd standing in applause last night at the premiere of “Woyzeck,” which will run through Dec. 15 at the Freud Playhouse. Nowhere this side of the madhouse or a gonzo acid trip have you seen chaos organized with such stunning color, murder enacted so tenderly, nervous […]

UCLA students are merging theater and film, word and image to bring fresh stories to the dark heart of Los Angeles. Beginning tonight and running through Dec. 7, directors from the graduate department of film, television and digital media will join graduate student playwrights and undergraduate actors in the department of theater to host the […]