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• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, August 21 at 2:30 pm, with guests actor Glynn Turman ("In Treatment," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom") and actor Javier Ignacio ("Beauty and the Beast"

  Host Donna Walker welcomes actor Javier Ignacio to talk about playing "Cogsworth" in "Beauty and the Beast" at the Pantages. In the second half, actor Glynn Turman talks about his illustrious Emmy Award-winning career and the upcoming MUSE/IQUE show "Looking West: How the Myth of the Western Frontier Got Its Star" coming up Aug,. 25 through Aug. 30 the the Skirball and Huntington Gardens.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Thursday, August 20, 2026

• LA Theatre Works, Sunday, August 23 at 10:00 pm, Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" Starring Laura Linney and Eric Stoltz

  In Neil Simon's classic comedy, a brand-new lawyer and his bride have returned from their honeymoon and are moving into a new apartment. Once there, they find the place is bare of furniture, the paint job is wrong, the skylight leaks and wacky neighbors keep popping up. A co-production with The Smithsonian Associates and Voice of America. Includes an interview with Marc Masterson, the Artistic Director of South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Thursday, August 20, 2026

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, August 25 at 2:00 pm with guest musician Daryl Davis ("Accidental Courtesy")

  Dr. Daryl Davis has toured around the world, performing with Chuck Berry, The Legendary Blues Band (formerly The Muddy Waters Blues Band), Elvis Presley’s Jordanaires, and many others. As a race relations expert Dr. Daryl Davis has received awards and high acclaim for his book "Klan-Destine Relationships" and his award-winning film documentary "Accidental Courtesy." He is the first Black author to write a book on the Ku Klux Klan based upon in-person interviews and personal encounters. His ability to get racists to renounce their ideology has sent Daryl to travel all over the United States and the world to share his methodology.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Thursday, August 20, 2026

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, August 18 at 2:00 pm, Orson Ossman's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World" (Part 8) Starring John Goodman and Glynn Turman

  The tale concludes with Part 8 of "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World." Phil and Ted present the Los Angeles premiere of an eight-part dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island" liberally adapted by writer/director Orson Ossman. "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World," includes an all-star cast including Keith David, John Goodman, and Glynn Turman, it also features Firesign's Phil Proctor, with an original score by music legend Taj Mahal. "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World" will air every Tuesday throughout the summer.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Tuesday, August 18, 2026

• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, August 14 at 2:30pm, with Filmmaker Sara Dosa ("Time and Water," and "Fire of Love")

  Host Donna Walker welcomes documentarian Sara Dosa ("Fire of Love") on her latest film "Time and Water" author Andri Snaer's rumination on life and loss amidst the death of Iceland's glaciers. With astounding images, the film is a time capsule of Icelandic culture, landscapes and the glaciers that are a vital part of the country's identity. Poetic, heartbreaking and timely, told through stunning cinematography and familial memories, the destruction of glaciers due to the pressures of global climate change is now unfolding over the course of a single lifetime

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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