Author: Ann Haskins

Complicated Topography

A melange of star crossed lovers in Beverly Hills, giving voice to autism in Santa Monica, contemporary dance in West Adams, Sylmar, Pasadena, and Atwater Village, the 1960’s revisited in Brentwood; Vogue ball in Little Tokyo, first of the season’s vampires in Hollywood; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.

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Jenn Freeman, on her dance-theater study in ASD, Is It Thursday Yet?

The La Jolla Playhouse has a deserved reputation for incubating new theater but had never ventured into dance, until Is It Thursday Yet? was included in the current season. Directed by Tony-award winner Sonya Tayeh and co-choreographed by Tayeh and Jenn Freeman, the dance-theater work explores Freeman’s personal journey after a diagnosis of autism at age 33.

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The Devil’s in the Details of Blood/Love at The Crimson

The Twilight Saga meets Faust, with a twist, in Blood/Love: A Vampire Popera. The immersive rock musical opens this week at the aptly named Crimson, a Hollywood pop up gothic nightclub. Running through November 2, the vampire-meets-rock-star event injects a devilish romance into the spooky season.

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Reconnecting a Disconnected

Messiaen maximized in Beverly Hills; Bollywood on South Asian climate resilience in the Hollywood Hills; Greek finale in Malibu; a novel’s new episode in Heritage Square; diagnosing reality in Santa Monica; first of the season’s vampires in Hollywood; more SoCal dance this busy week, plus a peek at next week.

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