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 12, 2011 April 11, 2011
Tales of lotion and men in motion are told by Sterling and Stroili. Television, film and
stage actor Scott Lowell (Showtime???s Queer as Folk) discusses his appearance in the upcoming motion picture
The Chicago 8. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Arthur Miller???s The Crucible at Theatre Banshee in
Burbank, CA; and The Blank Theatre Company???s production of Jon Marans??? The Temperamentals at
Hollywood???s Second Stage Theatre. Award winning theatre director Richard Israel discusses his endeavors
with the hit musical Having it All at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood, and the classic Broadway
musical Gypsy (Stripped) for West Coast Ensemble at Hollywood???s Egyptian Arena Stage. Lowell and Israel
share embarrassing moments in theatre.
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April 05, 2011 April 4, 2011
Sterling and Stroili???s discussion of Meat Loaf (not your mother???s, but the rock
singer also known as Michael Aday on Donald Trump???s Celebrity Apprentice 2011) opens this edition of State
of the Arts. Broadway stars David Engel and Larry Raben discuss their distinguished individual and
collective careers, as well as their co-starring roles in Cabrillo Music Theatre???s presentation of The
Producers at the Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA. The Live Arts Calendar features the popular hit musical
Forever Plaid at the Costa Mesa Playhouse in Costa Mesa, CA, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson???s
Burn This at the Center Theatre Group???s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Engel and Raben recall their most
embarrassing moments on stage.
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March 29, 2011 March 28, 2011
Something???s fishy when Stroili opens the hour with tales of the Sushi, and Sterling
sprechens der Wienerschnitzel. Television, film and stage star Michelle Clunie (Showtime???s Queer as Folk)
is interviewed about her co-starring role in the Los Angeles premiere of Neil LaBute???s The Mercy Seat
presented by Vs. Theatre Company [Inside] at the Ford Theatre in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar
spotlights Performance Riverside???s production of Curtains at the Landis Performing Arts Center in
Riverside, CA; and Shuffle, which utilizes the iPod and Macbook Pro to present a live music production from
the National Children???s Chorus at The Eyde Second Space at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. Actor
Mackenzie Astin discusses his career in television and film; his parents actor John Astin and Academy Award
winner and television star Patty Duke; and his co-starring role in Caught by David L. Ray at Hollywood???s
Zephyr Theatre. The world premiere play centers around the upcoming wedding of a gay couple living in Los
Angeles. Astin and Clunie share awkward moments during live performances.
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March 22, 2011 March 21, 2011
Tiny Bubbles? Or Tea for Two? Sterling and Stroili speculate Boba, a popular Southeast
Asian beverage sweeping the U.S. Guests include Judy Norton and Mary McDonough (respectively known as "Mary
Ellen Walton" and "Erin Walton") from "The Waltons" one of the most renowned television series of all time.
Ms. Norton discusses a diverse career as an actress, writer, director, and musical theatre star. Ms.
McDonough talks about her new book of memoirs Lessons from the Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton;
overcoming personal challenges; her dedication to women???s health issues; and her work as a life coach. The
Live Arts Calendar highlights Faith Healer at the Madison Street Theatre in Oak Park, IL., and Layers of
Love, a musical theatre fundraising event for children afflicted with HIV/AIDS at the M Bar in Hollywood, CA.
Ms. Norton and Ms. McDonough share their embarrassing moments on stage.
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March 15, 2011 March 14, 2011
Sterling & Stroili forego their usual comedic opening to acknowledge the recent
Tsunami/Earthquake disaster in Japan.
7-time Emmy Award winning, legendary actor Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant) is interviewed
about FDR, his one man tour de force now in its third year of touring the U.S. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights The Loft Ensemble???s 100 Days, a world premiere comedy by Weiko Lin. A new State of the Arts
(SOTA) segment titled Regional Spotlight is introduced with a review by SOTA fan Carrie Bashak of New York.
Bashak reviews Louden Wainwright III and Shawn Colvin at Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. Robert
Bucker, Executive Director of the all new Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University at
Northridge, joins Sterling & Stroili to discuss the spectacular $125 million dollar venue???s diverse
2011 season.
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March 08, 2011 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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March 02, 2011 February 28, 2011
Sterling and Stroili exchange quips with actor Jim J. Bullock as their sole guest for the
hour. Best known for his unique sense of comedy and his co-starring role on the 80???s iconic hit TV series
Too Close for Comfort ... a regular celebrity player on Hollywood Squares ... and his former syndicated talk
show Jim J. and Tammy Faye (Tammy Faye (Baker) Messner) in 1996 , Bullock discusses his career in television
and film, as well as the musical side of his life on Broadway and throughout the country. The Live Arts
Calendar features An Evening with Rita Rudner at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego, CA; the Steve Chase
Humanitarian Awards in Palm Springs, CA; and The Insomnia Play at the Lyric Hyperian Theatre in Silverlake,
CA. Sterling reviews The Blank Theatre Co.???s The Cradle Will Rock at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood
and Betty Buckley and Marvin Hamlisch in concert at the new Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, CA.
Bullock shares his worst moment during a performance.
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February 22, 2011 February 21, 2011
Sterling and Stroili welcome actress/comedienne Maripat Donovan, star and co-author of
Late Night Catechism; the hilarious, critically acclaimed series of stage productions that have toured the
U.S., Canada and the British Isles. Donovan is interviewed about her role as "Sister" in the series???
latest incarnation - Late Night Catechism 3: ???Till Death Do Us Part at the Pasadena Playhouse???s Carrie
Hamilton Theatre. Sterling, Stroili and Donovan discuss everything from theatre presented at Hollywood
Forever Memorial Park, a legendary celebrity cemetery; to some still-living legends and their performances on
this year???s Grammy Awards. The Live Arts Calendar highlights The Mercy Seat, playwright Neil LaBute???s
caustically funny examination of opportunism in the wake of tragedy at "Inside" the Ford Theatre in the
Hollywood Hills. Sterling reviews the U.S. National Tour???s LA engagement of Rock of Ages at the Pantages
Theatre in Hollywood. Miss Donovan recounts her worst nightmare while performing.
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February 15, 2011 February 14, 2011
It???s not all hearts and roses, or what it???s "cracked" up to be. Sterling and Stroili
discuss the tainting of Valentine???s Day. Legendary Broadway star Davis Gaines (Phantom of the Opera)
discusses his illustrious career. Broadway, television, film star and theatre director Ron Orbach (Room
Service) is also interviewed. Sterling reviews the 8-time, 2007 Tony Award winning U.S. Tour production of
Spring Awakening at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Co-Director Bjorn Johnson (Room Service) joins the
group via telephone. Gaines and Orbach tell of unusual situations experienced during live performance.
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February 08, 2011 February 7, 2011
Does eating a bag of chips during a theatre performance qualify as audience
participation? Sterling and Stroili sound-off on the don???ts and don???ts of theatre etiquette. Broadway
Tony Award winner Michael Rupert (Sweet Charity, Legally Blonde, Ragtime, City of Angels, Pippin) and Megan
McGinnis (Les Miserables, Little Women, Beauty and the Beast) discuss their co-starring roles in the new
musical and west coast premiere of Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse. The Live Arts Calendar
acknowledges the U.S. Tour of Spring Awakening at Hollywood???s Pantages Theatre. Stroili reviews Shawn
Colvin and Louden Wainwright III, the inaugural performance of the Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State
University, Northridge; and Room Service at the Open Fist Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Sterling reviews
The Sherman Brothers Album, part of a of live (monthly) concert series presented by Kritzerland Records at
the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood. Rupert and McGinnis divulge awkward moments while performing.
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