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Friday, March 2, 2012

Bain’s Latest Mission — Explore Why We Have a Body by Cynthia Citron

Barbara Bain, of Mission: Impossible fame, chose to accept the mission of playing a gallivanting archeologist, who researches the female brain, in Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body, at Edge…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Friday, February 17, 2012

Dugan’s Wiesenthal Hunts Nazis at Ventura’s Rubicon by Cynthia Citron

Tom Dugan's  Simon Wiesenthal -- Nazi Hunter, acclaimed at Theatre 40 last year, moves to Ventura's Rubicon Theatre. Although Dugan's father told him stories about his World War II service,…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Association for Jewish Theatre Conference: Days 1 and 2 by Cynthia Citron

Gathering at UCLA Hillel for the first two days of its 31st conference, the Association for Jewish Theatre produced panels that began with jokes but went on to discuss ethical values, Jewish…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:20PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Sam Anderson — On the Road to The Water’s Edge by Cynthia Citron

Sam Anderson is directing Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge at the Road, where he is a co-artistic director. Here he also talks about his experiences in TV's Lost, the recent play Blackbird,…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:21PM
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Free Programs at the Music Center on Dec. 24 by Cynthia Citron

LA County's annual free holiday celebration at the Music Center, which is broadcast live for three hours on KCET-TV,  requires some complicated planning and split-second timing behind the s…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:29PM
Monday, November 28, 2011

Bates Wears Rose-Colored Glasses by Cynthia Citron

Kathrine Bates' The Color of Rose uses three actresses, on stage together, to portray Rose Kennedy in three stages of her life. The West Coast premiere opens tonight at Theatre 40. Bates, wh…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:39PM
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Mother Nature Won’t Be Fooled in Sherry Glaser’s Second Coming by Cynthia Citron

Sherry Glaser created a durable hit, Family Secrets, 21 years ago in LA, but now she's concentrating more on the re-awakening of Mother Nature.  It's the subject of The Second Coming:  A O…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:05AM
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

From Belfast to Kampala to LA With Daddy O’Callaghan by Cynthia Citron

Johnny O'Callaghan's solo show Who's Your Daddy? at the Little Victory Theatre relates the tale of his adventures adopting an orphan in Uganda -- and more. His past also includes a stint in …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:31PM
Friday, September 23, 2011

Kate Bergh Plays Dress Up by Cynthia Citron

Kate Bergh's costumes can be seen in two big shows right now -- South Street at the Pasadena Playhouse and Reprise's Cabaret at UCLA. After reading about the designer and her work, you can s…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:02PM
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Richard Israel Helms Falsettos for YADA’s New Third Street Theatre by Cynthia Citron

Director Richard Israel helms Falsettos as the inaugural production for YADA's new Third Street Theatre and explains why a "small musical with big themes" offered him a great opportunity to …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:22PM
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Sarah Treem Gets the Ojai Treatment by Cynthia Citron

Sarah Treem is moving from writing HBO's In Treatment and Netflix's House of Cards to watching a workshop performance of her newest play, When We Were Young and Unafraid, at the Ojai Playwri…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:49PM
Monday, July 11, 2011

For A Death in Colombia You’ve Gotta Have Hart by Cynthia Citron

Roxanne Hart, now appearing in A Death in Colombia, has found new inspiration from working in LA's small theaters.  READ MORE

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:13PM
Thursday, June 9, 2011

O’Hara and Ullett Move to Bakersfield by Cynthia Citron

Her email address begins with “nifttt”, which she says stands for “nothing is funnier than the truth.”  (It could also stand for “nifty,” which she most certainly is.)  For a…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:35PM
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Gobetti Tackles Sex and Education by Cynthia Citron

“By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank.”  Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Or…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:04PM
Monday, May 9, 2011

Anna Khaja an Outsider in Wendy Graf’s New Play by Cynthia Citron

“All theater is a character telling a story---as if he were sitting around a campfire.” Playwright Wendy Graf is sitting around a table at a cafe in Burbank as she quotes iconic direct…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:46PM
Friday, April 15, 2011

Scott Paulin Directs New Version of Shepard’s Starving Class by Cynthia Citron

“We have a live lamb on stage and she’s not housebroken---or, more accurately, stage-broken---so our first run-through was a bit redolent,” director Scott Paulin says. He’s talking…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:25PM
Friday, March 25, 2011

Seniors in Sync With the Lady in Pink by Cynthia Citron

You might think living in an all-pink house would give you a toothache.  But, au contraire, Jackie Goldberg, the “Pink Lady,” has made her all-pink home a delightful nest of airy lig…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:16PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Israela Margalit Plays for a Ménage a Trois by Cynthia Citron

Fascinated by the life and career of celebrated pianist Clara Schumann and her relationships with her then-less-celebrated husband, composer Robert Schumann, and their protégé, Johannes Br…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:01PM
Friday, February 25, 2011

Elina de Santos Breaks Glass With Arthur Miller by Cynthia Citron

You might call director Elina de Santos an Arthur Miller groupie -- not to trivialize, but to celebrate, her lifelong devotion to the works of the man she considers America’s greatest play…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:50PM
Friday, February 11, 2011

Annie Hendy: Still Looking for Mr. Right by Cynthia Citron

"Every day I walk in here I feel so lucky!” Annie Hendy, bubbling over, sits in the lobby of the Falcon Theatre in Burbank to talk about her personal odyssey as she presents it in her semi…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:31PM
Friday, January 28, 2011

Anne McNaughton and the Search for Intimacy by Cynthia Citron

Anne McNaughton, associate artistic director and co-founder of Andak Stage Company, is speaking proudly of her husband, actor/teacher/Shakespearean scholar Dakin Matthews, and the new play, …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:11PM
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Gwen Van Dam Takes a Trip by Cynthia Citron

The term “shy actress” would seem to be an oxymoron---at least for those movie queens who came to stardom during Hollywood’s “Golden Age.” Think Joan Crawford or Bette Davis or K…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:01PM
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Salome and Anne: Forever Young by Cynthia Citron

Salome Jens “Anne Sexton saved my life,” Salome Jens says. The actress, still beautiful in her 70s, sits munching her salad in a trendy outdoor cafe. Her words are startli…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:22PM

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