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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State of the Arts episodes:

April 03, 2012 April 2, 2012
Broadway’s Bryonha Parham joins Sterling & Stroili live from New York to talk about
her current co-starring role in the newly reimagined hit Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. In
studio, distinguished award-winning film, television, and musical theatre composer Michele Brourman is
interviewed; along with Los Angeles musical theatre star Stephanie Renee Wall, who also portrays the iconic,
real life “Barbie” for Mattel Toys. Both discuss their upcoming headlining engagements at the all new
Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts District. Stroili does a review of The
Merchant of Venice at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, CA. Brourman and Wall recall embarrassing moments during
their performing careers.
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March 27, 2012 March 26, 2012
Gary A. Marsh, creator of Breakdown Services, the Los Angeles based corporation that
universally revolutionized the casting industry for motion pictures, television, commercials, and beyond,
discusses the company’s 40 year history with Sterling and Stroili. Divisions of Breakdown Services such as
Showfax, Casting About, the Virtual Channel Network, Talent Pro, Eco-Cast, and Actors Access are highlighted.
State of the Arts’ new 99-Seat Theatre Spotlight singles out the award-winning Theatre Banshee in Los
Angeles, while the Live Arts Calendar promotes the Tony Award-winning musical American Idiot at the Center
Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Marsh shares an amusingly awkward career moment.
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March 20, 2012 March 19, 2012
Broadway, Film, TV, Concert star and popular adult contemporary Recording artist Lainie
Kazan spends an intimate and disarming hour with Sterling & Stroili as she discusses her very diverse and
much heralded career including an upcoming appearance in Celebrity Autobiography: The Music Edition at the
Clive Davis Theatre at LA’s GRAMMY Museum; and her special guest appearance at the April 1, 2012 Grand
Opening of Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in Kritzerland Records’ Take Me Along, a tribute to the work of
Broadway and pop songwriter Bob Merrill. The Live Arts Calendar spotlights Broadway’s Liz Callaway and
Cabaret’s Ann Hampton Callaway in “Boom” at The Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA; and
Opera superstar Renee Fleming in concert with the San Diego Symphony at the Civic Theatre in San Diego, CA.
Ms. Kazan recalls a humorous, awkward career moment.
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March 13, 2012 March 12, 2012
Sterling and Stroili vent about irresponsible parents and child care. Michelle Danner,
Entrepreneur and Artistic Director for the Edgemar Center for the Arts and Edgemar Theatre Group in Santa
Monica, CA is interviewed about the company’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Ghosts. The Live
Arts Calendar highlights LA Opera’s production of Albert Herring at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Los
Angeles Music Center. Sterling’s reviews Bernadette Peters in Concert at the Valley Performing Arts Center
on the campus of Cal State University at Northridge. Artistic Director Greg Shane not only discusses his
involvement with CRE Outreach and the organization’s Theatre by The Blind arts program, but its current
offering of the Steven Dietz comedy/drama Private Eyes. Danner and Shane share embarrassing moments during
performance.
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March 06, 2012 March 5, 2012
From the Best of Sterling and Stroili (first broadcast March 7, 2011) - Former teen
heartthrob/pop recording artist and film and television star Rex Smith talks about his life and career in Los
Angeles theatre and on Broadway. Musical theatre star, singer/comedian Perry Lambert shares celebrity
impressions and discusses his touring nightclub act. Stroili gives a toe-by-toe accounting of his first
mani/pedi. The foursome vow not to acknowledge the now so-fired, not-so-winning Charlie Sheen. The Live Arts
Calendar features Tony Award winner Lee Hall’s (Billy Elliot) commedia dell’arte, signed and voiced
adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio produced by the nationally distinguished Deaf West Theatre of North
Hollywood. Reviews include the comedy Play Date at Hollywood’s Theatre Asylum, and the U.S. National tour
stop of the multi-Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q at the Pantages Theatre, also in Hollywood. Lambert
and Smith divulge a few of their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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February 28, 2012 February 27, 2012
Sterling and Stroili talk shop with 2012 LA Comedy Award nominee Stephanie Jones
(“Funniest Actress in a Comedy”) about her career and her starring role in the hit web TV series Good Job,
Thanks! Created and written by Ryan Glasgow, and also nominated for an LA Comedy Award as “Best New Comedy”,
Good Job, Thanks! follows showbiz casting diva, Linda Livingston-Black (Jones) as she struggles to maintain
her sanity in a job where day-to-day “normal” is anything and everything imaginable. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights the LA Opera’s production of Albert Herring at the Los Angeles Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion; and Celebrate Dance 2012, an annual, one-night-only dance festival showcasing the work of nine
choreographers and seven dance companies at Glendale’s Alex Theatre. Jones shares an embarrassing career
moment. Note: Bryonha Parham (currently co-starring in Porgy and Bess on Broadway) was originally set to
guest on this edition of State of the Arts. Due to an unexpected conflict, Ms. Parham will be rescheduled
for a near future appearance).
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February 21, 2012 February 20, 2012
Television star and Tony Award nominated Broadway star Craig Bierko (Sex and the City,
The Music Man) is interviewed by Sterling and Stroili about his participation with Celebrity Biography in
benefit of the Loma Linda California Children’s Hospital. Chelsea Emma Franko, winner of LA’s coveted,
annual musical theatre competition LA’s Next Great Stage Star is interviewed along with three of Stage Star’s
top five finalists Tyson Pyles, Carrie St. Louis, and David Michael Laffey. Sterling does a shout-out to
Man of La Mancha starring Broadway’s Davis Gaines and international musical theatre star Leslie Margherita at
Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA.
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February 14, 2012 February 13, 2012
TV, film and theatre heartthrob Lorenzo Lamas (Renegade and Falcon Crest) talks about his
co-starring role as the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (a benefit for Musical
Theatre of Los Angeles and Josh Grobin’s Find Your Light Foundation); Distinguished Broadway star Davis
Gaines (Phantom of the Opera) and the vivacious, award-winning musical theatre star Lesli Margherita
(London’s Zorro: The Musical and Reprise’s Kiss Me Kate) join Sterling & Stroili for a rollicking hour.
Gaines discusses his beginnings on Broadway, and taking on the starring role of Don Quixote (Cervantes)
opposite Leslie Margherita’s portrayal of Aldonza in Man of La Mancha for Musical Theatre West in Long Beach,
CA at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center. The Live Arts Calendar highlights a stage
adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Ghosts at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA.
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February 07, 2012 February 6, 2012
A February 15th fundraising concert version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat for Musical Theatre of Los Angeles (MTLA) and Josh Grobin’s Find Your Light Foundation (starring
heartthrobs David Burnham from Broadway’s Wicked and Light in the Piazza; and television and film star
Lorenzo Lamas at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA,) is discussed with MTLA’s Bonnie McMahan and Aaron
Jacobs. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Sidetracked, a timeless murder mystery (Hollywood style) at the
Macha Theatre in West Hollywood, CA. Jacobs and Stroili share some embarrassing showbiz related social
moments.
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January 31, 2012 January 30, 2012
Broadway‘s Roger Bart (The Producers, Young Frankenstein) and Kim Huber (Disney’s Beauty
and the Beast) join Sterling & Stroili for a frothy, fast moving hour. Bart discusses his career and his
starring role in celebrated playwright Yasmina Reza’s Art at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA.
Sterling gives a mini review of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA; and
announces "Tutu Day” (February 2nd) on behalf of Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre and the upcoming west coast
premiere engagement of Broadway’s Billy Elliot The Musical. Huber also elaborates on her career, and taking
on the iconic role of "Maria Von Trapp” in 3D Theatricals’ extravagant production of The Sound of Music at
the historic Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA.
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