Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts

It’s a Friday evening at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada, Calif.

As the house lights dim, old footage of Leonard Bernstein’s television program, “Young People’s Concerts,” projects onstage, and the maestro teaches the audience how to prepare to conduct a symphony.

Think back to what life was like in high school. Whether you were the class valedictorian, the class clown, the quarterback, the band kid, the popular kid or the book worm, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television will allow you to revisit the halls of high school in the fall production “Is There Life After High School?”

Knocks can announce any of a number of things: people clamoring to be let in, jokes or even Mr. Opportunity making his presence known.

Jill Renner walked hurriedly to a black storefront on Venice Boulevard and, pulling back a large, wooden, ramshackle door, stepped into a small theater space.

Imagine a room filled with young ladies decked in Victorian garb and young men in tailcoats and top hats to match, effervescently dancing a waltz across the room.

This isn’t just a scene out of a Jane Austen novel.

Halloween is over, but a glimpse of the bizarre will remain on hand a while longer at the Hammer Museum.