Entertainment & Arts
A favorite vehicle for glamorous--how can we put this--mature actresses, Noel Coward’s 1930 arch drawing-room farce “Private Lives” has been revived in recent years as a vehicle for both Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins.
Sept. 10, 1992
CSUN art students, angered over the replacement of a student teaching assistant, barricaded themselves in a conference room outside President Blenda J.
Feb. 19, 1993
A big hit in London, Joyce Rayburn’s 1968 “The Man Most Likely to . . . “ has never quite caught on in the States.
June 10, 1993
World & Nation
Even though they were rejected as fakes by the art Establishment, six drawings of well-known Arles landmarks are on display this month as authentic works of Vincent van Gogh.
Oct. 8, 1995
The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza’s Forum Theatre becomes the county’s largest drawing room for the Tour de Force Repertory Company’s staging of Oscar Wilde’s quintessential drawing-room comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
April 3, 1997
Giving chamber music a spotlight in an intimate setting
March 31, 2013
The high-tension world portrayed in Robin Palanker’s pastel drawings turns with such forcefulness that the objects in it get all bent out of shape.
Nov. 22, 1990
Lifestyle
The famed homoerotic artist Tom of Finland spent the last decade of his life in a 1911 Craftsman house in Echo Park. Now, the home is command central for all things Tom of Finland — a lived-in museum for both devoted fans and the simply curious.
Oct. 2, 2019
Without slighting the work of Alan Ayckbourne, Simon Gray and a half-dozen other dexterous playwrights, we may now have the ultimate example of their specialty: British drawing-room comedy, Postwar Version.
Oct. 17, 1991
“Site specific” sculptures by their nature make special demands on museum resources.
April 5, 1986