Jon Lawrence Rivera, Artistic Director of Playwrights’ Arena – the first and oldest theater dedicated to discovering, nurturing, and producing original works written exclusively by Los Angeles playwrights – is...
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Pauline Adamek
SXSW World Premiere Review: “The Peanut Butter Falcon”
In The Peanut Butter Falcon, newcomer Zack Gottsagen stars as a 22-year-old with Down syndrome who lives in a retirement home — the only place the state could find for him after his parents left. Endlessly watching an...
Kurt Gardner
SXSW World Premiere Review: “The Art of Self-Defense”
In The Art of Self-Defense, Riley Stearns’ new dark comedy, Jesse Eisenberg is cast in what can best be described as a quintessentially Eisenbergian role as Casey Davies, a 30-something guy so timid that he barely casts...
SXSW Exclusive Interview: The Creator and Cast of ‘Ms. White Light’
Making its world premiere at SXSW this year is writer/director Paul Shoulberg’s delicately moving comedy-drama, Ms. White Light. Roberta Colindrez stars as Lex, a repressed young woman who has the uncanny ability to...
SWAN Day Los Angeles 2019
SWAN Day—SUPPORT WOMEN ARTISTS NOW Day! Support Women Artists Now Day/SWAN Day is an annual international celebration of women’s creativity and gender parity activism, which was co-founded by Martha Richards of...
