Attending a new play festival is like celebrating your birthday, or Christmas: these unknown plays are nicely wrapped gifts; you have no idea what’s inside until you open them. With a new play festival, you’re seeing brand new plays that have never been produced, not familiar plays you may have seen elsewhere before. Other than
PHOTO COURTESY Attending a new play festival is like celebrating your birthday, or Christmas: these unknown plays are nicely wrapped gifts; you have no idea what’s inside until you open them. With a new play festival, you’re seeing brand new plays that have never been produced, not familiar plays you may have seen elsewhere before.
Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation
Historian William Deverell dives into Fiscus story, which changed the course of television history. Near dusk on a spring evening in 1949, the three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well in her family s San Marino backyard. For more than two days, rescue teams attempted to retrieve the trapped girl, as the country watched. The incident became the first live, breaking-news TV event in history. Deverell will talk with
Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian for the virtual Vroman s/Crowdcast event.
Live Talks Los Angeles presents Walter Isaacson in conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin about the discovery of the CRISPR gene editing tool. (Courtesy Live Talks LA)