Cinema News: Review: ‘Christmas Carol’ noisily reopens the Ahmanson Theatre

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December 5, 2021

Review: An eager-to-please 'Christmas Carol' noisily reopens the Ahmanson Theatre

The Old Vic production of the Charles Dickens holiday classic stars Bradley Whitford as Scrooge.

Compton native's Gallery 90220 provides a space for Black creatives to collaborate

David Colbert Jr. founded Gallery 90220 to provide Black creatives with a place to network and collaborate while paying homage to his hometown.

Dominique Morisseau on art, activism and ending 'Paradise Blue's' West Coast run

After citing harm to Black women artists that led to her pulling the production from Geffen Playhouse, the playwright discusses how her life must reflect what she creates onstage.

Edgar Wright pulls together a decade of artistic obsession with 'Last Night in Soho'

Set largely in the 1960s, the film isn't a nostalgic ode to the past. "To imagine that the '60s were the good old days is wrong, because everything that's bad now was bad then — possibly even worse," says Wright.

After a yearlong COVID-19 shutdown, escape rooms are back in Los Angeles

Here's how Los Angeles escape room pioneers Natalie Lapidus and Ruslan Balashov resurrected their Maze Rooms business after a yearlong COVID-19 shutdown.

Alice Sebold's memoir, 'Lucky,' pulled as she apologizes to man wrongly convicted of her rape

Sebold apologized to Anthony Broadwater, convicted of her rape in 1982 and exonerated last week. Her publisher announced a pause to consider revisions.

How Anderson .Paak found his 'Shang-Chi' song at 4 in the morning

A last-minute idea became "Fire in the Sky" -- but not without endless tweaking.

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