Author name: Rebecca Ramos

“Regency Girls,” a new musical comedy set in the period of Jane Austen’s novels, begins on a note that fans of “Pride and Prejudice” will savor. The fate of the Benton family depends on finding husbands for the two oldest daughters, Elinor (Isabelle McCalla) and Jane (Kate Rockwell), both of whom are being courted by […]

British actor Aimee Lou Wood got the “Saturday Night Live” treatment over the weekend — and she was not a fan. The “White Lotus” Season 3 fan favorite on Sunday aired her grievances about the latest episode of the NBC comedy show after it parodied her looks in a sketch that cast key players of

Jed the Fish, the longtime KROQ DJ who set the station up to be as influential as it was in the 1980s and ’90s, died Monday morning. He was 69. Jed, whose given name was Edwin Jed Fish Gould III, died at home in Pasadena under hospice care, his close friends confirmed to The Times.

Production of television shows, feature films and commercials all declined in the Los Angeles area during the first three months of the year, according to a new report. On-location production declined 22.4% compared with the same period a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the nonprofit organization FilmLA, which tracks shoot days

Andrea Blaugrund Nevins’ love of storytelling led her to the rural South, to ABC News in her native New York and, ultimately, Hollywood, where she produced and directed documentaries about dancers, punk rockers and the queen’s horse trainer. Nevins, wife of former Showtime chairman David Nevins, died Saturday at their Los Angeles home, surrounded by

What makes the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival consistently the most talked-about live music event of the year is that it continues to be a kaleidoscopic melting pot of pop culture. A sweltering opening weekend at the Empire Polo Club in Indio that saw temperatures reach triple digits didn’t dampen the highlights, which included

An age-old debate has roared back to the forefront in Hollywood. The so-called theatrical window has long been a hot topic for studios and movie theater owners. The discussion about how long a film is in movie theaters before it’s available for home viewing ramped up during the pandemic, when some studios dramatically shortened their

Computers were ugly hulking gray or beige boxes then, taking up so much desk space. In 1996 I worked at Disney Interactive, my Windows 95 operating system skinned with an “X-Files” theme; when I arrived early, the TV show’s eerie chimes echoed across the empty office. Work was a lot like now, doing things using

Back in 2020, I faced the bane of every writer’s existence: a blank page, in an empty notebook. I was starting my first novel for adults in years, and I always struggle to find a way into the story. Except this time, I had a secret weapon in my back pocket: I’d written three young-adult

At 8:24 p.m. on Nov. 2, 2020, Caroline Darian was a happily married 42-year-old working mother, close to her parents and two brothers, David and Florian, content with a life so ordinary that she would later characterize it as “banal.” Then, one minute later, she became someone very different. The phone rang and her life