Entertainment & Arts
Will Power’s ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at the Kirk Douglas Theatre summons Stepin Fetchit and Muhammad Ali to the stage in well-acted drama directed by Debbie Allen.
June 27, 2023
A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m.
Nov. 21, 1985
Alex Edelman’s ‘Just for Us,’ the genius of Stephen Sondheim and a Tony Award for the Pasadena Playhouse were among the highlights of Los Angeles theater in 2023.
Dec. 4, 2023
Movies
Stepin Fetchit, the black comedian who became a Hollywood star in the 1930s by playing lazy, slow-moving, easily frightened characters, died Tuesday of heart failure and pneumonia at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.
Nov. 20, 1985
What audiences really want out of going to the theater, the Mission San Gabriel Museum reopens after a devastating fire, and other arts news
July 1, 2023
Why go to your local coffee shop when you can go to Central Perk? Immerse yourself in the ‘Friends’ TV show at this SoCal experience.
June 21, 2023
California
Over eight episodes, ‘Slow Burn: The L.A. Riots’ tells as complete a story of what led up to the L.A riots as any I’ve ever heard, seen, or read.
Dec. 29, 2021
A stereotype? Definitely. Problematic? Perhaps. But many Mexican Americans love Speedy Gonzales, Gustavo Arellano writes.
March 17, 2021
Awards
Third time’s the charm for Eli Goree, who prepped to play the Greatest twice before.
Jan. 12, 2021
Television
After Eddie Murphy’s dig at Bill Cosby’s expense during his ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologue, Cosby’s rep slams Murphy as a ‘Hollywood slave.’
Dec. 23, 2019