So Cal Arts & Entertainment

Eifman Ballet in “Red Giselle.” Photo by Evgeny Matveev. The Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company’s “Giselle” at Segerstrom Center for the Arts July 28-30 is certain to be a must-see event—especially with Misty Copeland in the title role on opening night. But Eifman...

Danny Scheie and Annie Abrams in “The Monster Builder.” Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. A two-act play with a gangbuster first act has a built-in problem—proceeding with a worthy follow-up which meets the heightened expectations of the audience. That’s the problem in a...

“Get Your Man” (1927) with Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival gets under way June 1 at the city’s treasured silent-era movie palace, The Castro. Harold Lloyd’s popular “The Freshman” (1925), featuring a climactic football game filmed at...

“The Killer Angels” at Maverick Theater. The best way to comprehend the Battle of Gettysburg—the turning point in the Civil War—is to tour the battlefield with an historian. At present, your best bet on the Left Coast would be to check out “The Killer Angels” at...

Brad Zimmerman in “My Son the Waiter.” Will Eno’s “Middletown” (in its SoCal premiere at Anaheim’s Chance Theater through May 21) reminds you of Thornton Wilder’s celebrated “Our Town” from the get-go. This may or may not have been a conscious decision on Eno’s part...

Shawn-Caulin Young in “Heart, Baby!” One of the great things about the annual Newport Beach Film Festival—which wrapped its 18th edition last week—is the abundance of short film programs. If you don’t like what you’re watching, wait a few minutes. You're bound to see...

Shannon Cochran and Lynn Milgrim in “A Doll’s House, Part 2” at South Coast Rep. Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. What happens when Nora Helmer returns home for a visit, 15 years after she walked out at the end of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”? Lucas Hnath has come up...

Vince Giordano What do Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Michael Feinstein know that most folks don’t? They’re all wild about, cannot do without Vince Giordano—when it comes to recreating the music of the 1920s and ‘30s and making it live for today, he’s “the top,” as Cole...

Mamie Gummer and Ben Feldman in "The Siegel." Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. What if? That’s the question we all ask ourselves in the wee hours of the night, is it not? And that’s the proposition Michael Mitnick makes in “The Siegel” at South Coast Repertory in Costa...

Together again - Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett. It’s hard to believe the theatrical juggernaut that is “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” almost wasn’t. When the Burt Shevelove-Larry Gelbart-Stephen Sondheim show first previewed on Broadway, audiences...