Theater
Carrie Mae Weems, Past Tense
The Theatre at Ace Hotel 929 South Broadway, Los Angeles, United StatesWest Coast Premiere As Billie Holiday sings— the same ole story, but it’s new to me.... Acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems, deemed “one of the more interesting artists working in the gap between art and politics” by The New York Times, has created a new performance-based work, Past Tense. Through music, text, projection and video,...
UCLA Regents’ Lecture: Fotini Baxevani, “My Own Private Kastellorizo”
Royce Hall, 314 UCLA
Fotini Baxevani in The Lady of Ro. Written by Gianni Skaragas
Freud Playhouse 245 Charles E Young Dr E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesFotini Baxevani in The Lady of Ro. Written by Gianni Skaragas
Freud Playhouse 245 Charles E Young Dr E., Los Angeles, CA, United States
Book Club: The Lady of Ro with author Gianni Skaragas
Huffington Center, St. Sophia Cathedral 1324 Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Apollo Dukakis: An Iliad
William Bristol Civic Auditorium 16600 Civic Center Drive, Bellflower, CA, United StatesJoin us for a concert reading with Apollo Dukakis An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’ Hare based on Homer’s Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
Artemis Leontis, “Going after Eva Palmer Sikelianos”
by ZoomFor more than a decade, Artemis Leontis has carried out a recovery project researching and writing the life of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, publishing her biography in 2019. Leontis knew Palmer as a shadowy figure in Greek cultural history, known mostly as the wealthy American wife of the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos, who spent all her...
Makriyannis Unplugged – Adapted, Directed and Performed by Yorgos Karamihos
Freud Playhouse 245 Charles E Young Dr E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCelebrated director and actor Yorgos Karamihos pays tribute to General Yannis Makriyannis, the hero of the 1821 Greek Revolution, in a show that tells the story of a nation in revolt and an individual in the process of self-formation. Adapting selected passages of Makriyannis’ Memoirs, a seminal work of Modern Greek letters, Makriyannis Unplugged renders...