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Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s global hit ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit,’ a theatrical experiment swathed in mystery, opens at the Fountain Theatre with a different actor handed the script right before curtain.
Hero Complex
Technology is only a part of the immersive experience, which runs through mid-May in Santa Monica. Its creator believes human-to-human contact is what will ultimately save us in the world.
The actor, who plays Chandrilan Senator Mon Mothma, breaks down the journey of the future Rebel Alliance leader and her big speech denouncing the Emperor in Episode 9.
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Nicholson is a double Emmy contender this season for Hulu’s postapocalyptic drama ‘Paradise’ and Max’s backstage comedy ‘Hacks.’
David and Jessica Oyelowo, whose Yoruba Saxon label is behind Apple TV+ series “Government Cheese,” are “normalizing the marginalized” — even against political headwinds.
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An emboldened president and his allies have launched a vigorous campaign to use levers of government to intimidate an increasingly fragmented and polarized media, experts say.
In the wake of the Palisades fire, should Malibu’s Getty Villa and the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood evacuate — for good?
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‘The Happiest Place On Earth’ by Don Hahn and Christopher Merritt traces the development of Disneyland, starting in the early ’50s.
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Rams owner Stan Kroenke will build a movie studio next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood that will serve as the international broadcast center for the 2028 Olympic Games.
A Paris court has found actor Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a 2021 film set.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer, Teny Geragos, conceded that Combs’ violent outbursts might have warranted domestic violence charges, but not sex trafficking and racketeering counts.
Activists are urging the L.A. Zoo to stop plans to transfer the last remaining elephants, Billy and Tina, to another zoo instead of a sanctuary.
Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug war has embraced songs that recount both the spoils and the excessive violence of organized crime. But the genre is increasingly under attack.
The Motion Picture Assn. trade group met with its members Friday morning to talk about a response to President Trump’s tariffs and actor Jon Voight’s plan for helping Hollywood.
The Y2K-era heartthrob from “The Virgin Suicides” is having a career resurgence in less heightened material — and seems to be enjoying himself immensely.
Kanye West, now know as Ye, has teased the incendiary single for days on livestreams. The rapper released it on Soundcloud on Thursday, only for it to vanish a day later.
Based on a 2020 horror novel by Adam Cesare, the movie has too many evil-clown competitors of sharper style and potency to contend with en route to scares.
Tim Robinson, the star of “I Think You Should Leave,” gets fixated on Paul Rudd as his too-cool potential BFF in a film that could be called “I Loathe You, Man.”
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