Día de los Muertos and a new ‘Spanish Dracula’ score: The best of L.A. arts this weekend
LA TimesWhile the weekend is once again upon us, I can’t stop thinking about an intimate, site-specific, one-night-only performance I experienced last weekend. cinema.ucla.edu Dispatch: ‘The Infinite Swell’ Isabella Feliciana and Matthew Scott Montgomery in IAMA Theatre Company’s “The Infinite Swell” at the Casa Loma Beach Hotel in Laguna Beach on Oct. 19. Guests gather at the grand opening of Casa Loma in Laguna Beach before IAMA Theatre Company’s “The Infinite Swell” on Oct. 19. This was the third time that the Los Angeles theater company — which helped develop Max Wolf Friedlich’s “Job” and Leslye Headland’s “Cult of Love,” both on Broadway this season, and is presenting John Lavelle’s “The Very Best People” and Graham Sibley’s “My Right Wing Uncle” at the Atwater Village Theatre this weekend — has partnered with Marc & Rose Hospitality for such an offering. It is a world of cinematic quotation, in which ‘Women in Love’ is juxtaposed with the gory action-comedy antics of ‘The Suicide Squad’ and a sequence from Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ is reenacted for resonant kicks.” Martin Chalifour opens “A Chalifour Celebration,” a chamber music concert in honor of his 25 years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.