Victoria Looseleaf
Victoria Looseleaf is an award-winning international arts journalist, having contributed many hundreds of articles to the Los Angeles Times, KCET Artbound, Dance Magazine, Performances Magazine and the New York Times, among other outlets. In addition, she publishes a blog, The Looseleaf Report, adjudicates dances festivals, and frequently moderates pre-concert talks. Looseleaf has also filed datelines from around the world, including such cultural hotspots as Abu Dhabi, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Berlin and Amsterdam. Her novella in verse, "Isn’t It Rich?" is currently being adapted for the stage.
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"Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser" is based on research done by composer Lisa Bielawa did on the history of female hysteria for her college thesis.
Acclaimed theater and opera director, Peter Sellars has created a woman-centric slate of concerts at a festival that promises to stimulate, provoke and continue to be boundary-breaking.
Opera, the 17th century art form that has often been considered an elite entertainment, has been surfacing more recently in unconventional spaces in and around the City of Angels.
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's "Sophie & Charlie" is being presented a chapter at a time in four locations around Los Angeles. The "dance telenovela" is part of the company's 30th anniversary programming.
Blind from birth, 36-year old mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin not only sings opera, designs a line of jewelry and is a memoirist, but recently collaborated on "Peace On Your Wings" -- a musical that commemorates the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ana MarÃa Alvarez, choreographer and founder of the CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater, is making works that deal with water, challenging audiences to confront issues surrounding the element. A former social worker, Alvarez uses dance to engage w...
Photographer Gary Leonard reflects on his career of capturing what makes Los Angeles the palm-tree-paradise-with-a-noir bent city that it is.
Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg's 1990 opera, "Hydrogen Jukebox" gets a multi-faceted staging by the Long Beach Opera.
Deaf West Theatre delivers performances in American Sign Language and spoken English. Their presentation of "Spring Awakening" at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts begins May 21.