Hollywood Fringe Festival 2024 is L.A.'s largest celebration of the performing arts. The 14th annual festival will take place this June across Hollywood.

This is just one of the many grim pearls of wisdom an audience to Othello might capture as they behold this masterwork fable of ill-fated love and hand-wringing deceit. Truly it is a pleasure to see the Bard’s words come to life here, in the NoHo Arts District — and it’s all due to the abundant passion and commitment of the fine folks at J-P Theater Productions.

A NoHo Arts theatre review of Write Act Rep’s Write of Spring 2024., running through June 2 at the Brickhouse Theatre.

In short, Pierce College’s Shakespeare in Love is absolutely magical and a fantastic homage to the film, while still being its own wonderful play. Like the best of Shakespeare's actual work, there are crowd-pleasing moments, heartbreak, passion and plenty of bits with a dog. It’s a nerve wracking,  tumultuous, inspiring and magical play performed with gusto and nuance and reverence by a truly wonderful cast who should be very proud of the miracle of what they have accomplished. They took a film and made it better…

A NoHo Arts theatre review of THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY’s production of SINGULARITIES or the Computers of Venus, written and directed by Laura Stribling. 

A NoHo Arts theatre review of Yelba Zoe McCourt’s solo show, “Where Y’all From?”

I loved this play and what a gorgeous performance by this warm, wise, sexy woman. Engaging everyone, connecting, mesmerizing and holding the audience in the palm of her hand while she unwound this sad and funny, tragic and inspiring tale. I really hope you get the chance to see Celeste Walker’s “Ghosted.” 

This month’s Mike Peros movie and TV reviews are on The Fall Guy and Unfrosted. 

What to watch next? This month’s Mike Peros movie and TV reviews are Coup de Chance and The Beautiful Game.

This month’s Mike Peros movie and TV reviews are on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Steve! (Martin) and In the Land of Saints and Sinners. 

De Maeyer-Kende Violin & Piano Duo Review. The duo of De Maeyer and Kende not only bring precision, passion, and virtuosity, but they also bring that added ingredient that is hard to describe, something indefinable, magical even. It is like that secret ingredient that makes a dish unforgettable.

– A NoHo Arts music review of pianists Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov and Dr. John Salmon show, Bach, Brubeck, Boogie and Beyond!, at The Athena Foundation for the Arts.  It...

The Athena Foundation for the Arts is a San Fernando Valley nonprofit whose sole intent is to bring the best world-class classical musicians to NoHo.

Faliks*Cani Piano & Violin Duo. Inna Faliks at the piano was mesmerizing and valorous. I come for her brilliance, but I stay for the revelation she gives to the pieces. Roberto Cani on violin is in a class of his own, playing with exquisite tenderness and explosive flair. Together, these two are sublime.

A NoHo Arts music review of SoCal Concert Pianist Jason Stoll at The Athena Foundation for the Arts.

A NoHo Arts music review of Black Bouquet’s “Pray to the Knife” album and video release. North Carolina-based Black Bouquet’s new album “Pray to the Knife” is a gorgeously dark poetic wall of sound, full of breathless vocals and haunting guitars. It’s theatrical and epic but the payoff is intensely intimate and truthful and insanely fun…in the darkest emo way.

This month’s acting blog from Fran Montano of Actors Workout Studio discusses “Finding an Acting Class – Part One.”

Being a fan of travel guru Rick Steves, I pieced together a two-week “first-timers” Italy trip for a small group of us from L.A. using Rick’s Italy guidebook.

This month’s Active World Journeys’ travel blog: “Living on the Edge at Victoria Falls.” One of the highlights of our recent Southern Africa Adventure was hanging over the edge of one of the largest waterfalls in the world – Victoria Falls.