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Oct. 17, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
Fifteen years ago, Simon McBurney and his company, Complicite, presented a revelatory theatrical realization of Shostakovich’s 15th String Quartet with the Emerson String Quartet at UCLA.
April 10, 2017
A conversation with British actor, writer and director Simon McBurney is a meditative adventure not unlike one of his genre-blurring theatrical collages created with his London-based internationally touring company, Complicite.
April 1, 2017
The 2016-17 season at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will boast a prestigious international lineup, with recent productions by Simon McBurney and Peter Brook making stops at the Beverly Hills venue.
May 11, 2016
Nov. 19, 2008
Thea^tre de Complicite, the London ensemble with the French name, stands high on the list of major international companies overdue--badly--for a Los Angeles engagement.
April 17, 2001
Books
A British art critic, Marxist intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, “Ways of Seeing,” ushered in a political perspective to art criticism has died.
Jan. 2, 2017
Travel & Experiences
Broadway bound: Arthur Miller’s 1947 drama “All My Sons” will be revived on Broadway this fall, featuring a cast of John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and, making her Broadway debut, Katie Holmes.
May 20, 2008
It’s been a busy art week — with stellar plays, Icelandic music and art exhibitions that feature overlooked women.
April 14, 2017
Breaking free from the standard chamber setting, the Emerson Quartet takes a page from the theater.
March 17, 2002