Alisa Hayashida
Alisa Hayashida is an arts and culture columnist and critic for South Pasadenan News, covering the greater Pasadena Metro area and Los Angeles Metro area. She is a valuable arts advocate in South Pasadena, with an extensive background in theatre arts. She has been a proud South Pasadenan for over 27 years.
Arts Are Essential | What’s On in Arts and Entertainment | Sept. 25 –...
A film adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet takes legendary Royal Ballet choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 audience favorite out of the theater and into the...
Arts Are Essential | September 18 – 25
Join South Pasadena’s nighttime mayor, Brad Colerick, for the latest Wine & Song podcast. Episode #24 is coming to us from Fraser, Colorado and...
Arts Are Essential | September 11 – 18
South Pasadena's nighttime mayor, Brad Colerick, brings us a new Wine & Song podcast, #23, featuring music by Brad Colerick, Emily Zuzik with Ted...
Know Your Rights
South Pasadena High School’s Speech and Debate team is organizing a program, known as Know Your Rights, as a community program for participants to understand...
The Arts Are Essential | September 4 – 11
Nederlands Dans Theatre is doing something unique in this time of Covid, by giving us a Livestream of their live programs at Zuiderstrandtheater in...
The Arts Are Essential | August 28 – September 4
I am so grateful for the continuous content The Metropolitan Opera has been giving us every single night for the past six months. Each...
The Arts Are Essential | August 20-27
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presents Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s SHELTER, streaming through August 27 at AlvinAiley.org. Originally performed in 1992, Shelter is a...
The Arts Are Essential
Something wicked this way comes! A thrilling and chilling production of Macbeth is now streaming on PBS.org Following a London West End run in...
Not To Be Missed This Week in The Arts
PBS.org continues its Great Performances series with Kevin Kline’s Tony Award-winning performance in Noël Coward’s “Present Laughter”, streaming July 31 – August 28. The...
What We’re Watching in Arts & Entertainment
Nederlands Dans Theater is streaming two exclusive film premieres marking the artistic farewell of house choreographers Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon. They have created...
What’s Shakin’ This Week in Arts & Entertainment
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme | The streaming service Hulu debuts its documentary about Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv hip-hop group whose notable alums...
What’s Happening in Arts & Entertainment This Week | July 10 – 17
Live from Lincoln Center presents Broadway Fridays and beginning July 10, they will premiere Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel”, which will stream through September 8....
What’s Happening in Arts & Entertainment | July 3 – 10
Our unofficial “Nighttime Mayor” Brad Colerick brings us the Wine & Song Podcast #15. So grab your beverage of choice, sit back, relax and...
What’s Happening in Arts & Entertainment | June 26 – July 3
Premiering July 3 on Disney+ is the highly anticipated film version of Broadway’s mega-hit “Hamilton”. Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and Disney+ decided to release the...
What We’re Checking Out This Week in Arts & Entertainment | June 19 –...
The National Theatre in the UK is streaming their epic production of Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel, “Small Island” to mark Windrush Day 2020....
YST Approved to Livestream “The Sound of Music” Summer Camp Production
While YST wrestled with ideas on how to preserve their summer camp schedule in the age of COVID-19, thankfully, theatrical licensing companies were busy...
THE ARTS Online This Week | June 12-19
Arts Online This Week | June 12- 19
With the 2020 Tony Awards cancelled this year, what is a musical theatre lover to do? The...
Young Stars Theatre Commits to Virtual Summer Camps
Two months ago, YST was in the middle of a run of “Seussical Jr”, had just started rehearsing “The Wizard of Oz”, and was...
Art Happenings This Week | May 29 – June 4
The National Theatre presents its much loved production of “This House” which enjoyed a West End run, a national tour and two sold-out runs...
Art Happenings This Week | May 18-23
Brad Colerick’s Wine & Song lineup at the Blue Guitar podcast #9 this week features Jodi Siegel, David Plenn, Daniel Neihoff, Catharine Beck, Poppa's...
“The Present” is a Gift
The Geffen Playhouse premiered their first production in the newly launched series Geffen Stayhouse, “THE PRESENT”, an interactive, virtual play starring master illusionist and...
What Caught Our Eye This Week in Arts & Entertainment
The always soulful evenings with the Blue Guitar Podcast have become a lovely way to spend an evening with a glass of wine as...
Local Children Spread Some Joy at Beyond The Classroom
It is no secret, especially among the families who attend Beyond The Classroom, that owner Samantha Montes is beloved in the community. The children...
Singer Songwriter Sophie Reynolds Drops Music Video “You’ve Got This”
If you are plugged into the music scene in South Pasadena then you’ve heard Sophie Reynolds’ heartbreaking vocals at the city’s Arts Crawls, around...
Arts & Entertainment | What We’re Streaming This Week
There is a global trend of people recreating great works of art using whatever household items they can find. The challenge was inspired by...
Gillette Crescent Gets A New Little Library
South Pasadenan Lauren Child, who lives on Gillette Crescent, was looking for something to occupy her time off during the current Covid-19 shelter in...
South Pasadena Arts & Music Academy Lets The Music Play
Manuel Lozano is the owner of local music school, South Pasadena Arts & Music Academy, located in a sweet, converted Craftsman house on Fremont...
ARTS | What We’re Checking Out Online This Week
The Blue Guitar Podcast #5 is dedicated to Tim Fleming and features Karen Tobin, Nathan Jacques, Jude Johnstone, Hannah Connolly, Kate Copeland, Abby Posner,...
Young Stars Theatre Finds A Way For The Show To Go On
The week of March 9, Young Stars Theatre was mid-way through their run of “Seussical Jr.” at Fremont Centre Theatre and rehearsing for their...
More Art For This Time | Arts & Entertainment Offerings
As we enter our fourth week of social distancing, we may be experiencing any number of the stages of grief as we navigate our...
