State of the Arts

By LA Talk Radio

State of the Arts is an all-new, weekly series devoted to coverage of the performing arts in Los Angeles, and beyond... with emphasis on theatre, music, dance events, and stage spectaculars. Michael ... more

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The podcast currently has 436 episodes available.

State of the Arts episodes:

October 16, 2014 Dean McClure, Kristin Towers Rowles,Joshua Kranz
FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS (October 10, 2013) - Playwright/Composer Dean McClure
discusses When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney, his world premiere musical at UCLA’s distinguished Freud
Playhouse. Regional musical theatre star Kristin Towers Rowles (granddaughter of the late MGM movie musical
star Kathryn Grayson) and Musical Director Joshua Kranz talk about their participation in the Kentwood
Players production Little Shop of Horrors at the Westchester Playhouse in Los Angeles. Sterling reviews the
Tony Award winning play War Horse at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Rowles and Kranz share embarrassing
moments in theatre.
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October 09, 2014 October 9, 2014
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October 02, 2014 John Lloyd Young
Broadway and Motion Picture star John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys) is interviewed for the
hour about his multi-award winning career including his current CD My Turn and his upcoming concerts at
Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal in North Hollywood, CA October 13 and 14. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights the Sustaining Sound Theatre Company’s production of the hit musical You’re a Good Man Charlie
Brown in association with LA’s Chromolume Theatre in benefit of Free Arts for Children. Young recalls an
embarrassing career moment.
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September 25, 2014 Donna McKechnie,Scott Lowell
FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS (September 27, 2010) - Record-breaking fall
temperatures in Los Angeles vs. the cold of winter in Chicago and New York, spark hilarious stories between
Sterling & Stroili. Broadway's legendary, Tony Award winning dancer/singer/actress Donna McKechnie (A
Chorus Line) is interviewed. This week's Live Arts Calendar is followed by brief reviews of film icon and
nightclub star Debbie Reynolds at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA; and up-and- coming musical
theatre star Taylor Tracey at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City, CA. SeaGlass Theatre's
critically acclaimed production Of Grapes and Nuts at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, CA is
congratulated. Sterling & Stroili converse with distinguished stage and television star Scott Lowell
(Showtime's Queer as Folk). Embarrassing moments in theatre are shared by all.
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September 18, 2014 September 18, 2014
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September 11, 2014 Kevin Saunders Hayes,Richard Hochberg
Award-winning composer, songwriter, producer Kevin Saunders Hayes is interviewed about
his creation of Vox Lumiere – Silents You Can Hear; and his current once monthly, weekend offering of a
reimagined The Phantom of the Opera as an explosive mash-up of music, dance, and technology, paired with the
original 1925 black and white film of the same name at the Los Angeles Theatre Center between September 19
and December 13. The Live Arts Calendar features Off-Broadway playwright Joanne Mosconi’s You Love That I’m
NOT Your Wife, a fast paced, sexy, edgy world premiere dramedy about 10 distinctly different young men and
women living and loving in LA September 12 – October 5 at the Avery Schreiber Playhouse in the NoHo Arts
District of North Hollywood, CA. Critically acclaimed Director/Writer/Composer Richard Hochberg discusses
the opening of his SCARY MUSICAL The Musical an homage to classic horror film clichés which combines a
slasher movie plot with a rock ‘n roll score and pop-culture humor opening September 19 – November 9 at the
NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood, CA. Hayes and Hochberg tell of embarrassing moments during their
careers.
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September 04, 2014 Carey Crim, Eddie Jemison
Award-winning New York Playwright Carey Crim (Growing Pretty, Wake, Green Dot Day) is
interviewed about the world premiere of her most recent work Conviction at the distinguished Rubicon Theatre
in Ventura, CA. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Dance the Dream, a collaboration of the arts which
celebrates the values of brotherhood as proclaimed by Martin Luther King. This creative dynamism of cultural
diversityevent takes place today at the Los Angeles Music Center Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. New Orleans
born actor Eddie Jemison (Schizopolis, Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen; HBO’s Hung) discusses his work
as a first time Co-Director of the award-wining short film King of Herrings which had its Hollywood premier
at the Dances with Films Festival with a release date by Devolver Digital during October, 2014. Jemison
recalls embarrassing moments during his career.
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August 28, 2014 Joanne Mosconi, Blake Boyd
Off Broadway/New York Writer/Director/Producer Joanne Mosconi is interviewed about her
latest theatrical offering You Love That I’m NOT Your Wife, a world premiere dramedy opening September 12 at
the Avery Schreiber Playhouse in the NoHo Arts District of North Hollywood, CA. The Live Arts Calendar
features How Deep is Your Love at the Laguna Beach Playhouse thru August 31 in Laguna Beach, CA. This
musical sendup of the film Saturday Night Fever stars The Troubies, one of southern California’s hottest
improvisational theatre companies. Stage, television and film actor Blake Boyd (Hot Guys with Guns,
Rocketman, ER, The Agency) talks about his co-starring role in Mosconi’s You Love That I’m NOT Your Wife.
Mosconi and Boyd recant embarrassing career moments.
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August 21, 2014 August 21, 2014
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August 14, 2014 David Galligan, Chad Kimball
LA Stage Alliance Lifetime Achievement Ovation Award-winning Director David Galligan
discusses his career in theatre and nightclubs, including his current project: Broadway Under the Stars
starring Tony Award-winner Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls) at Hollywood's John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. The
Live Arts Calendar highlights a unique production of Spring Awakening presented by Deaf West Theatre in
association with The Forest of Arden in the Rosenthal Theater at Inner City Arts, downtown Los Angeles. Chad
Kimball... a 2010 Tony Award nominee as Best Actor in a Musical (Memphis)... talks about his journey to
Broadway and his 2014 co-headlining appearance with Holliday, Erich Bergen, Rogelio Douglas, Jr. Danny Gurwin
in Broadway Under the Stars hosted by Obba Babatunde August 16th at The Ford.
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