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Art Review: Chagall at LACMA

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

BEYOND THE 805

Art, Theatre, and Costume Design

Chagall at LACMA

The exhibition Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA] on view until 7 January 2018 is a special kind of exhibition. It deals with Chagall’s involvement with specific dance performances during his mature years when he was at the height of his powers drawing from long-held connections to music, stage, and dance. Due to the difficulty of exhibiting this type of material, it is probably, unfortunately, a once-in-a-lifetime experience and may never be repeated.

Installation view, Marc Chagall designed costume for the Magic Flute opera, Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through 7 January 2018, copyright 2017 Artists Rights Society [ARS] New York / ADAGP Paris. photo: Copyright Fredrik Nilsen.

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OCT

23

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Artist Opening: András Györfi Ana Marini Julia Pinkham

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Andras Gyorfi, Ana Marini, Julia Pinkham

November 2 - December 3, 2017
Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

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OCT

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Preview: Flying H Does Blackbird

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Preview

Flying H Does Blackbird

Ventura is getting a special treat: Two of the 805’s best acting talents, Jessi May Stevenson and Taylor Kasch, are teaming up to do David Harrower’s Blackbird, one of the most remarkable plays written in decades.

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Artists Opening: Group Exhition

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Ann Baldwin. Janet Bothne, Judy Hintz Cox, Andras Gyorfi, Michael Moon, Michael Quinlan

October 5 - October 29, 2017
Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

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Dance: Anaїs by Mixed eMotion Theatrix

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Dance

Anaїs by Mixed eMotion Theatrix

9 September 2017 -- The greatest strengths of Anaїs, a Dance Opera, other than the conception and timing of doing this work at this time to begin with, is, first, the work of both the lead dancer, Kate Coleman, and the voice, Holly Sedillos, at its center. Second, the choice of doing it with a minimal set backed by a projection scrim and using live and recorded sound, in short, a multi-media piece.

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Review: James Conlon’s Sensuous Carmen

By Daniel Kepl

Theatre

Review

Beyond The 805

Los Angeles Opera

James Conlon’s Sensuous Carmen

His love affair with Carmen began at the age of 13 for Los Angeles Opera conductor and formidable company mentor James Conlon, who has conducted Bizet’s popular masterpiece dozens of times in other cities, but never before in the city of angels. Singing in the children’s chorus as a kid, Conlon explained during a pre-performance chat to about 200 in the Music Center’s Grand Lobby, he apparently couldn’t help himself and was told repeatedly to please stop conducting during Act IV while on-stage. Thus, a natural conductor was born. Los Angeles Opera’s Carmen, which runs through October 1^st at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center, is guided heart and soul by the seasoned artistic provenance of James Conlon.

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Review: Incognito

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Review

Incognito

Rubicon theatre presents a fabulous West Coast premiere of Nick Payne’s Incognito. Runnng 90 minutes without intermission, the play was originally commissioned and performed by Nabokov and Live Theatre, in Newcastle, UK in 2014 and opened in the US 3 May, 2016 at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

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Artist Opening: Dominga Opazo

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Dominga Opazo

September 16 -November 5, 2017

NAMBA Arts Space, Ventura, CA

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Review: Becky’s New Car

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

Review

Becky’s New Car

The Santa Paula Theatre Company is currently offering a delightful production of Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car, an easy-going farce written for a tight ensemble.

The play is set in summer “in a town very much like Seattle …” and is about a fairly normal middle-class woman, Becky, in a conventional ho-hum marriage. Becky works in an auto dealership while her husband, Joe, runs a roofing business. One day a somewhat disconnected, eccentric billionaire, Walter Flood, enters her office and through a misunderstanding offers Becky the possibility of a somewhat parallel existence.

(l)Scott Blanchard, Cynthia Killion, and Ronald Rezac in Steven Dietz' hilarious comedy BECKY'S NEW CAR playing through October 1 at the Santa Paula Theater Center.

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Review: Steel Magnolias at the Elite

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

KimPrendergast Truvy andsittingPeggy Steketee Clairee

Theatre

Review

Steel Magnolias at the Elite

The play, Steel Magnolias has been a favorite of both professional and community theatre audiences for almost three decades, enjoying somewhat of a rebirth across the country since its revival with a Broadway debut in 2005.

Kim Prendergast as Truvy and Peggy Steketee as Clairee, Elite Theater Co Oxnard, CA

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