Blank Theater Company will host the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards on Monday, April 10, at the Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd. (near Gower Street). D
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Just like Charles Dickens, and at about the same time at a continent’s
remove, Feodor Dostoyevsky was also writing A Christmas Carol — at least,
if we
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Looking at the photograph of the young Robert Crumb, together with three of his neatly dressed siblings, at Disneyland in 1955, I thought to myself, “What
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With the cultivated lifestyle of Esquire and Playboy in the ’60s came their netherworldly alternatives, “dirty books,” which floated proudly down t
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Photos by Jenafer Gillingham
“My main inspiration comes from the shape of a woman,” says Christopher Enuke, who transforms denim into design with
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Photo by Ed Kreiger
One danger with setting a play in the past is that its author knows exactly where that past’s footsteps will lead. Armed with perfect hind
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Illustration By Shino Arihara
After four decades of publishing somewhere in the neighborhood of 85 novels, novellas, essays, short-story collections, children’
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In an essay published two weeks ago in the Los Angeles Times, playwright Jon Robin Baitz sounded almost embarrassed that his play now at the Taper (Ten Unknown
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The best moments in Oliver Mayer‘s Ragged Time are the vitriolic confrontations between Blind Gary and Blind Ross, two impoverished blues singers who are both
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Photos by Julie Pavlowski
ONE EVENING WHILE WADING THROUGH A stack of scripts she'd brought home from Showtime, Nathalie Seaver, a vice president of original pr
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Authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen developed The Exonerated by interviewing 40 people who had been wrongly convicted of capital crimes and sentenced to death row
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There are moments — often unremarkable, everyday moments — when the entire history between two people, former lovers, returns in an instant: the rush of
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