offbeat

Andrew Meieran will soon reopen the doors to Clifton’s, of one of L.A.’s legendary restaurants, in a bid to once again make it an offbeat dining destination.

“What makes it so hard is that I have to say commands offbeat to Rhythm so that every move will go with the music,” Sagi says.

It’s rare for a three-month span to offer such volume and variety in the musical genre: animated adventures and live-action titles, family-friendly fare and grittier, offbeat dares.

Directed by Echo Theater Company artistic director Chris Fields, who has an instinct for offbeat work that links the personal to the political, the production is sure to draw out Hunter’s gifts for revealing connections between where we live and how we feel.

She’s got a casualness about her that’s true to her status, but she also has always existed somewhat out of time, a quality that allowed her to play the offbeat loners of Burton’s world as well as heroines invented by Louisa May Alcott and Edith Wharton, in films from Gillian Armstrong and Martin Scorsese.