An open letter. To those whom it concerns: Living in a nation where people are already starting to think about Christmas, I’m no longer surprised when people set up for holiday celebrations long before they should. Read more...

The air was heavy with smoke. Orange light sifted through the trees on a chilly October night. With Halloween just around the corner, the atmosphere was a perfect setting for the Tiger Lillies and Kronos Quartet to present their collaboration in honor of writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. Read more...

“28 Days Later” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Today, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Title aside, this isn’t a movie about February. It’s a scary zombie movie from Britain. Read more...

In a time when popular culture embraces the ever-increasing obscene and overtly sexual, a former UCLA theater student is trying to push the envelope even further. Read more...

At first he seems like your typical college professor. In the film “The Human Stain,” Anthony Hopkins portrays Professor Coleman Silk, a Classics professor at a prestigious Ivy League university. Read more...

Just in time for Halloween, Los Angeles movie theaters are ready to satisfy your horror fix by showing classic scary movies on big screens across the city. Read more...

Somewhere in the middle of Theatre 40’s spirited performance of “Twelfth Night,” the servant Fabian (Rachael Lyerla) steps up to the audience, cheekily pulls down her character’s elasticized beard, and declares, “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” Director Steven William, abetted by a more-than-able cast, seizes upon this line, one suspects, and turns his rendition of the play into a festival of metadramatic madness. Read more...