BY PAULINE ADAMEK How often do you get close enough to see the rapture on the face of a world-class musician exquisitely playing a heart-rending theme? On the second Sunday of every month, Le Salon de Musiques gives you that very opportunity in an intimate upstairs hall within the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. This concert series was initiated in 2010 by the pianist Francois Chouchan, who now serves as the Salon’s artistic director.
A Life in Our Theater: A Memoir BY NEAL WEAVER George Bernard Shaw once observed that theatrical economics can never really be rationalize because when theaters are making money, they’re making it so fast that economy seems irrelevant; and when they’re losing money, they’re losing it so fast that no amount of economy will help. Or, to put it another way: they say bumblebees are too heavy to fly. But the bumblebees don’t know that, so they go on flying anyway.