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With COVID-19 forcing Broadway to postpone the Tony Awards, critic Charles McNulty takes winners from 2010 tho 2019 and names the best of the best.
After Lea Michele apologized for her on-set behavior, her former “Glee” costars aren’t letting it slide. Even a producer for the TV show has chimed in.
The move comes a day after Eller engaged in a Twitter dust-up over newsroom diversity.
Compared to the awful power of the video of George Floyd’s death, or even the intimate address of Trevor Noah, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are utterly ineffectual.
Memoirs by Kiese Laymon and John Edgar Wideman; essays by Darryl Pinckney and Mikki Kendall; masterpieces from Michelle Alexander and Claudia Rankine.
Envelope: Showrunners Roundtable
Showrunners Kerry Ehrin of “The Morning Show,” Dahvi Waller of “Mrs. America,” Steven Canals of “Pose,” Susannah Grant of “Unbelievable,” Dan Levy of “Schitt’s Creek” and Chuck Lorre of “The Kominsky Method” connected with L.A. Times culture columnist L.Z. Granderson for a wide-ranging conversation that included the need for opening writers rooms to specific viewpoints.
Series creators, including Chuck Lorre and Dan Levy, exchange ideas on what new TV productions might look like. Think cellophane for starters.
Here’s how to keep up with pop culture during self-quarantine due to coronavirus concerns.
What will L.A. museum reopenings look like? The Guggenheim Bilbao may have answers.
“The Avengers” actor Tom Hiddleston plays a general gone rogue in William Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus.” Here’s how you can watch for free.
Television Academy President Maury McIntyre looks forward to some creative solutions to the problems presented by holding the Emmys during a pandemic.
Warner Music Group, Disney pledge support to social justice groups
The world’s biggest cinema operator, AMC Entertainment, warns of losses of up to $2.4 billion due to the pandemic.
Paul McCarthy’s Hammer Museum solo show shut down for COVID-19. From home, he talks of human nature, violence and turning from performance to drawing.
Culver City-based Zoic Studios, which produces visual effects for film and TV, sees growth in its Zoic Labs, which brings VFX skills to COVID-19 research.
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ESPN documentary “Be Water” fleshes out the life and challenges of the legendary martial-arts master.
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Daniel Traub’s documentary ‘Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own’ surveys the primal work of the New York-based sculptor.
Digital-art memorials to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other black victims of white violence are rallying cries for social justice.
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Ivanka Trump tweets Scripture amid angry national protests, but her father could learn more from Shakespeare about mercy and justice.
Scientists studying tiny exhaled particles that could transmit the coronavirus say a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decision to drop warnings against choral singing is dangerous, risking more “super spreading events” such as a Washington state choir practice linked to two deaths.
Christo’s 1991 installations of more than 1,000 colorful umbrellas in Southern California and Japan resulted in tragedy. Christo created ephemeral projects across the globe
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Pacific Symphony presents a virtual salute to film composer John Williams. Here’s how you can watch on demand.
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Sen. Tom Cotton used his New York Times op-ed to call for using the Insurrection Act to “send in the troops” against nationwide civil unrest, prompting backlash from across the newsroom.
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Warner Music Group on Wednesday launched its IPO at $25 a share, a sign of how streaming has fueled a turnaround in the music industry.
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Shareholders, led by the powerful Brian Roberts family, rejected three investor proposals.
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Elisabeth Moss stars as writer Shirley Jackson with Michael Stuhlbarg and Odessa Young in Josephine Decker’s ingenious anti-biopic “Shirley.”
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Kevin James plays a neo-Nazi opposite Lulu Wilson in the home invasion thriller “Becky,” a bloody riff on “Home Alone.”
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South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo explores relationships and identity in “Yourself and Yours,” with charming performances by Lee You-young and Kim Joo-hyuk.
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The Hulu documentary “And We Go Green” paints a rosy future for Formula E auto racing with a boost from celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Fans swarmed police tip lines and white-supremacist hashtags with clips of K-pop groups BTS and Blackpink to make them useless.
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Originally set to come out Thursday night, Run the Jewels’ “RTJ4" is available now on streaming services and as a free download on the hip-hop duo’s website.
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An oral history of the coronavirus pandemic, as told by the staffs of four iconic L.A. nightclubs: the Troubadour, McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Sound and the Satellite
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Terrace Martin’s “Pig Feet” was recorded in the last week and features Kamasi Washington, Denzel Curry, G Perico and Daylyt.
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Celebrated for her novels, occasionally vilified for a persona she can’t control, the author of “Death in Her Hands” is our prophet of loneliness.
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An Irish millennial’s first novel, “Exciting Times,” pins the touchstone generational tension between sardonicism and sincerity.
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Stephen Rebello’s “Valley of the Dolls” history, “Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!,” is only good if you think the movie is — which it’s not.
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Actor-director Sylvester Stallone just sold his La Quinta retreat for $3.15 million, finding a buyer a week after relisting.
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