Entertainment & Arts
Although it’s been a less than stellar time for race relations in Los Angeles, one of this city’s premier African-American theater artists is having “his best year in a long time.”
Aug. 16, 1992
With his hangdog features and affable demeanor, Shabaka Barry Henley brings an immediately appealing everyman persona to “Jungle Bells,” another installment in the Loco Motion Festival at Actors’ Gang Theatre.
Nov. 14, 1997
Barry Shabaka Henley, who appeared in “Collateral,” “The Terminal” and the upcoming “Miami Vice” film, will emcee a special neighborhood concert Sunday featuring the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
March 10, 2006
Playwright-actor Ted Lange of “Love Boat” fame asks a familiar question: Would you sell your soul to the devil?
May 23, 1997
Movies
“Barbershop,” which premieres Sunday night at 10, is Showtime’s sitcomization of the film franchise of the same name.
Aug. 12, 2005
The plot takes some left turns, but August Wilson’s dialogue cruises along nicely. Powerful acting gives it still more drive.
Feb. 4, 2000
When the former Los Angeles Theatre Center company was in its heyday in the late ‘80s, the LATC lobby was famous as a hangout where multicultural mingling took place on a regular basis.
March 19, 1995
Director Robert Egan’s staging of “Richard II” at the Mark Taper Forum has so many ideas and effects competing for attention with Shakespeare’s text that Wednesday’s magnitude 6.1 earthquake could almost have passed for one more attention-getter.
April 24, 1992
The fact of the matter: Los Angeles is an industry town, and theater is not its industry.
Oct. 1, 1995
For minorities, participation in mainstream society carries with it some inherently surreal qualities, especially when it entails sacrificing parts of one’s cultural identity.
March 24, 1995