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Greg Laemmle has urged me to pass on to Laemmle moviegoers a theater recommendation: he recently saw the Falcon Theater’s production of THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON, a new comedic drama about a Holocaust survivor living in North Hollywood. Greg’s reaction is echoed in the rapturous L.A. Times review. (A sample line: “That rarefied place where craft, collaboration and content create theatrical poetry is everywhere in THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON.”) The play has been extended through April 27.
Did you know that 19 nations around the world are currently experiencing conflicts that could devolve into genocide? Please consider joining Greg and Tish Laemmle on the 2014 Los Angeles Walk to End Genocide April 27 at Pan Pacific Park. It’s being organized by Jewish World Watch as part of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. From the website where you can sign up:
“Join thousands of your fellow activists for JWW’s 8th Annual Walk to End Genocide on Sunday, April 27, 2014 at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Visit the Global Village Festival, before and after the Walk, for information and advocacy booths on Darfur, Sudan, Congo and other human rights abuses, conflict minerals campaign and other advocacy opportunities, solar cooker demonstrations, crafts, merchandise, food, music and more.
“Take one step closer to a world without genocide by walking 3 miles on paved surfaces around Pan Pacific Park. Together with the 2014 Honorary Committee Co-chairs Mayor Eric Garcetti & Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Vice Chair, former councilwoman Joy Picus, and committee members, including the entire City Council and Board of Supervisors, the City Attorney, City Controller, District Attorney and Sheriff, we will walk to let our local community and the world know that we will not stand idly by while human rights violations continue to impact the lives of innocent men, women and children.”
We are thrilled to be opening PETER BROOK: THE TIGHTROPE this Friday at the Music Hall. It’s a documentary about an acting class helmed by Mr. Brook and filmed with hidden cameras by his son, Simon (who will be doing Q&A’s after each 7:20 PM screening at the Music Hall, Friday, April 11 through Tuesday, April 15 as well as the 2:40 and 5 PM screenings on Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13). If you are an actor or just someone who has marveled at what great actors can accomplish, seek out this film and watch a master in action.
As it happens the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA opens a Peter Brook play, THE SUIT, this week at the Freud Playhouse. “Devastation by enchantment,” sang Ben Brantley in the New York Times. There are only nine performances. A plethora of information about the production and its origins is here. And if you bring your ticket stub from the play to the Music Hall for any screening of PETER BROOK, you may buy tickets at a good discount: $6 each. Also, check out this piece the L.A. Times published today about Brook and the UCLA production.
We are very pleased to welcome AFTERNOON OF A FAUN director Nancy Biurski, who will participate in a Q&A after the 7:50 PM screening at the Royal on Friday, April 11.
We have three Q&A’s/discussions planned for the 7:50 PM screenings of THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE at the Monicas Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, and after the 5:30 PM screening on Sunday, April 13:
April 11: Kristen Johnston, actress and author of Guts with Harold Owens, Senior Director of Musicares;
April 12: Mackenzie Phillips, actress and author of High on Arrival with Leonard Buschel, Director of the REEL Recovery Film Festival;
April 13: Greg Williams, director of THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE with students from the Haven at USC recovery community.
THE BUTTERFLY ROOM director, Jonathan Zarantonello will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:40 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12. Actress Heather Langenkamp will join him on Friday and actress Barbara Steele on Saturday.
PERFECT SISTERS director Stanley Brooks will participate in a Q&A after the 7:10 PM screening at the NoHo on Friday, April 11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadNu-wVOMA
It’s time again for CicLAvia, returning to its justly popular Wilshire Boulevard route this Sunday from 9 AM to 4 PM. Mosey down Gaylord Wilshire’s namesake on foot or bicycle, skateboard or roller-skates, anything that relies entirely on your muscles for locomotion. There is so much to enjoy — including the weather; the forecast is for sunny skies and temperatures in the high seventies — but we’ll focus on just two here: this Sunday the historic and beautiful Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which is right on the CicLAvia route on Wilshire between Hobart and Harvard, will be open to the public for tours! They will be open from 10 AM to 3 PM with information for self-guided tours and will provide two guided tours at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM. Even better, they will have a bike valet as well so you don’t have to sweat locking up your bike.
Second, the Temple is in Koreatown, and what else is in Koreatown? Just the best Korean cuisine outside of mainland Korea. There are a panoply of excellent choices, but we’ll point out two: Soot Bull Jeep is two blocks south of Wilshire at 3136 West 8th Street and Ham Ji Park is one block north at 3407 West 6th Street. Arrive hungry! For a stiff drink in an authentic bar, the HMS Bounty, just off the lobby of the Gaylord [Wilshire] Hotel, is right in the middle of everything at 3357 Wilshire.
What’s more, the forecast is sunny and high seventies, so enjoy!