James Sims - Page 17

This week marked a change of pace for NBC's 'Grease: You're the One that I Want,' as producers seemed to have jumbled up the run of things, fixing a few glaring mistakes made last week but dropping the ball overall...

West Hollywood was full of love last Friday as the boys of UPRIGHT Cabaret took over the romantic hot spot La Boheme for their monthly evening of world-class entertainment chalk full of stage and screen stars, creating an only in Los Angeles moment...

Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's restaurant in Studio City celebrated their 8th anniversary with a cool sense of chic cabaret as Maura M. Knowles (Bare) flew through stage classics to a crowded house...

Award winning-playwright David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow recently opened at the Geffen Playhouse under the direction of Geffen Playhouse artistic director Randall Arney...

The LA Opera presented Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Saturday under the direction of Tony Award-winner John Doyle and starring Broadway divas Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone...

After going dark for a week, NBC's 'Grease: You're the One that I Want' made its triumphant return Sunday evening, although a slightly overshadowed one as it battled against the Grammy Awards...

Hollywood is the town where young dreamers flock, hoping to one day be discovered and launch into a career of cheers and stardom. It is a place where everyone walking down the street, be it bum or barista, has within them the next cinematic masterpiece...

There are moments in musical theatre when the sets become cumbersome and staging simply hampers the works on stage, which might explain the popularity of Reprise! Broadway's Best's Marvelous Musical Monday series at UCLA...

Like most things in life, Jamaica, an island known for the occasional holiday getaway by some of the more wealthy, is not the most luxurious of locales when looked at closely...

As the driving creative force behind the now 30-year-old musical that has spawned countless child stars, including Andrea McArdle and Sarah Jessica Parker, Charnin again returns to his beloved classic, currently at the Orange County Performing Arts Center...

Hello twelve, hello fourteen. NBC kicked off the two-hour live episode of the Broadway casting extravaganza, 'Grease: You're the One that I Want,' with the top 12 contestants suddenly discovering two fallen stars were thrown back into the race...

Simpson took time out of rehearsals to talk about his working with McAnuff again, having been in the La Jolla Playhouse production of Tartuffe in 2002, along with his experiences with Sorkin and his upcoming films set for release later this year...

There is a revolution afoot at the REDCAT and Marissa Chibas is to thank, as her one-woman masterwork, Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, makes its world premiere in the downtown Los Angeles theatre presented by CalArts...

Confessing one's sins certainly takes an act of bravery, but imagine doing so in front of a packed theatre night after night, let alone revealing your dark past and divulging family tidbits to absolute strangers...

Broadway stars and admirers of composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa gathered to sing him praise along with support for the California Conservatory of the Arts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center December 19...

Move over Rydell High, there is a new group of singing teenage starlets on stage hailing from Springfield High, and they are making audiences flip at the El Portal Theatre as they relive their 1958 Senior Prom to some doo-wop classics...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed Tuesday the 79th Academy Awards poster design, which features dozens of the most memorable and quotable lines from motion pictures, including a handful of films adapted from Broadway hits...

As ambient sounds of faraway whistling trains and occasional waves of stage smoke filled the expansive Royce Hall, a childlike sense of anticipation overcame the audience as they awaited an evening of whimsy and spectacle...

Bourne cuts to the heart of Edward Scissorhands with his approachable dance interpretation, picking up on the despair of the title character's struggle for acceptance in a superficial anywhere American neighborhood...

UPRIGHT, an L.A. Cabaret, along with AIDS Project Los Angeles presented 'Life is a Holiday Cabaret' at La Boheme Restaurant December 10...