Ashley Lee
Entertainment and Arts Reporter at Los Angeles Times
@latimes entertainment and arts reporter, Essential Arts newsletter scribe. she/her is messy, but she's kind. [email protected]
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latimes.com | Jessica Gelt |Ashley Lee
President Trump continues to press for control over institutions that shape the arts, culture — and history. Last week the administration removed board members appointed by former President Biden from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., including former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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flipboard.com | Jessica Gelt |Ashley Lee
NowCNN — President Donald Trump, the dealmaker-in-chief, has said for weeks that at least one trade deal is imminent with one of the dozens of countries in active negotiations with the United States to avoid punishing tariffs. So where is it? On Sunday aboard Air Force One, Trump said there “could very …
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latimes.com | Jessica Gelt |Ashley Lee
“Is it time?” asked Renée Elise Goldsberry.
The Altadena theater students who rose up after the Eaton fire; plus L.A. arts and culture this week
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latimes.com | Jessica Gelt |Ashley Lee
Catherine Hampton, left, Jolie Simmons, as Princess Fiona, and Lizzie Bartsch join fellow student performers from Altadena Arts Magnet and Eliot Arts Magnet in a performance of “Shrek The Musical Jr.” at the Ahmanson Theater. If you’ve read enough of my newsletter intros, you know how much I love kids — and not just because I’m a mother. I love kids because they are unique and often fearless — they haven’t yet had socially accepted conformity hammered into them.
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independenttribune.com | Ashley Lee
LOS ANGELES — Of all the elaborate illusions and wall-to-wall effects performed in the stage show "Stranger Things: The First Shadow," the trickiest one is a signature visual of the "Stranger Things" universe: the nosebleed. "Making a nosebleed happen onstage is quite literally one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my entire existence," said Jamie Harrison, who designed the play's illusions and visual effects with Chris Fisher. "It was so hard.
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i had the best time chatting with @jonmchu about his beautiful book Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen. and it’s very clear that, with everything he’s learning from what he’s working on now and in the near future, he’ll have plenty to say in a second book. https://t.co/prvJTZgugO
"Making a nosebleed happen onstage is quite literally one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my entire existence." spoke with vfx + illusions designers Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher about bringing Stranger Things and Harry Potter onstage: https://t.co/fMkAflJqFj
"Sometimes it’s hard to sit in the rehearsal room with this play because I want another world for these characters, away from everything." loved chatting with a.k. payne about FURLOUGH'S PARADISE, now @GeffenPlayhouse and hitting the East Coast next year: https://t.co/qUjkmrnJaX