This year’s race for Oscar gold just might leave those with an early lead in the dust. As the highly anticipated Oscar nomination deadline quickly approaches, on Dec. Read more...

To some people, winning is not everything. The musicians who converged for the Second Annual Acoustic Live finals on Nov. 9 were more concerned with entertaining the crowd. Read more...

“The Shaggs” Powerhouse Theatre Company Right after delivering a rollicking, bells-and-whistles rendition of the song “Career Day,” actors in the play “The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World” promptly step out of their characters (at least temporarily), slap on their stagehand hats, and proceed to reconfigure the set in front of the audience. Read more...

Although probably less known to the world at large, Charles Mee is currently the toast of theater lovers everywhere. For the last two or three years, the polio-stricken writer of a growing canon of plays, and author of the autobiography “An Almost Normal Life,” has seen his plays surge in popularity. Read more...

With Halloween over and Thanksgiving quickly approaching, it’s time for typical holiday plays like “The Nutcracker” to run their course. Playwright Sandra Tsing Loh, however, prefers to tell the tale of trying out for “The Nutcracker.” “Sugar Plum Fairy” is an unconventional Christmas play about a clumsy, overweight girl who dreams of winning the lead role of Clara in her dance school’s production of “The Nutcracker.” Written and performed by Loh, this one-woman show, directed by David Schweizer, is currently running at the Geffen Playhouse. Read more...

It’s about race. One race, the human race. It’s about challenging stereotypes and assumptions. And it’s about de-powering the words. N*gger. Wetb*ck. Ch*nk. As the posters warn (or rather promise), the asterisks come off on Nov. Read more...

It’s not hard to bring to mind the stereotype of a metal head. Since heavy metal’s arrival on the music scene in the early 1970s, it’s been accused of everything from Satanism to plain old Beavis and Butthead idiocy. Read more...