Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Former Ovation winner David St. Louis (for Parade at the Taper) is playing George, the suitor of the seamstress in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's his second …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:52PMFriday, October 26, 2012
Black Women: State of the Union 'Taking Flight' arrives at the Skylight after success at Company of Angels in 2009. It's a series of six short plays written by, directed by and starring Afri…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Rocky Carroll, a veteran of August Wilson plays, hasn't been on stage since Wilson's Radio Golf in 2005, at the Taper. But the TV star (NCIS) is returning to the boards for Ebony Rep's LA pr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:09PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Sanaa Lathan brings her rendition of the title role in Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark from New York to the Geffen Playhouse -- not far from Hollywood where the play is set. It's …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Dane Cook takes a break from standup comedy to make his professional theater debut as the crazy Nazi who created Springtime for Hitler in Mel Brooks' The Producers, at the Hollywood Bowl thi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThursday, May 24, 2012
Lillias White brings happy years of experience—but not 285 of them—to her performance as Aunt Ester in Rubicon Theatre Company’s Gem of the Ocean, opening tonight. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, April 27, 2012
The black soldiers at Camp Logan in Texas became embroiled in a devastating chapter in American history in 1917. Joe Morris' staging of Celeste Bedford Walker's Camp Logan recalls that bitte…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:42PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
In The Convert, Danai Gurira looks at the cultural conflicts facing a young woman who's fleeing a forced marriage in 1895 Zimbabwe. Gurira knows the turf -- born in Iowa, raised in Zimbabw…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:16PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Matt Shakman, once a Ventura kid turned juvenile TV star, grew up and became an LA theater and TV director. Best known in the LA theater world for his tiny Black Dahlia Theatre, he's about t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
The little Celebration Theatre is doing the big The Color Purple musical with La Toya London, who played Nettie in the touring production but now plays Shug, and with Cesili Williams in the …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:30PMThursday, February 23, 2012
Kirsten Vangsness plays an amateur porn star who represents lust in Phinneas Kiyomura's Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE -- it's not the kind of play she wants her nieces to see. Nor is it a lucr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:40PMWednesday, January 25, 2012
Pam MacKinnon staged the premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park in 2010, and now she's preparing the Mark Taper Forum's staging, which will morph into the Broadway debut…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Charlayne Woodard, famed for her autobiographical solo plays, takes on her role as surrogate mother to nieces, nephews, godchildren and other offspring of friends in her latest production, T…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:06PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Robin Givens, starring in Blues for an Alabama Sky at Pasadena Playhouse, gets all choked up about playing Pearl Cleage's sad and struggling blues singer in Harlem during the Depression. Dir…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:25PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Longtime friends Karen Black and David Proval play an aging Jewish couple in the South in Moses Supposes, at the Zephyr. Black reveals what every actor should know, and Proval discloses a pr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PMWednesday, September 28, 2011
More tales from John Leguizamo's life are about to take over the Montalban Theatre, in Leguizamo's latest solo, Ghetto Klown. Here he talks about how he prepares for his on-stage self-ther…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:59PMTuesday, August 30, 2011
The night's big LA theater winners were Ben Guillory's Robey Theatre Company, who took home the Best Producer Award (local) in association with the Latino Theatre Company for The Reckoning…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:24PMMonday, August 29, 2011
It was a full-on celebration at the 4th Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theater Festival held this past weekend at Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC). Utilizing the theme "Raise the C…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:39PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
Corbin Bleu discusses his August 5 Hollywood Bowl debut as Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray, why musicals are now considered cool and what’s up with his Food Network fandom. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Discipline, doubt and kale are among a few of Anna Deavere Smith's favorite things as she brings Let Me Down Easy, her solo show on health care, to the Broad Stage. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:21PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Clowning around on public transportation is usually frowned upon. However, soon there will be a lot of real Bozos riding the Metro Rail. The Watts Village Theater Company (WVTC) in associat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:28PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
It’s 11:30 in the morning and Debbie Allen is dancing from one end of the rehearsal hall to the other with two young actresses who probably aren’t old enough to remember her as Lydia G…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:51PMMonday, June 13, 2011
A celebration of African American theater will take place nationwide on June 20, as 17 black theater companies across the country light their collective lights for 1Voice, 1Play, 1Day, an …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:51PMTuesday, May 31, 2011
Sipping on a drink at Café MUSE in Hollywood, White looks tres chic in her black slacks, black blouse, gold metallic shoes, gold earrings and necklace, all accented with a black/white strip…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:26PMThursday, May 19, 2011
Roger Guenveur Smith can hold a grudge. And, if you press him about it, he’ll hold his ground, dig in deeper, look you straight in the eye and tell you in no uncertain terms just why the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:29PMWednesday, April 27, 2011
When Lonsesome Traveler opened April 13, it marked the end of a five-year expedition for James O’Neil, co-founder along with his wife Karyl Lynn Burns, of the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ve…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:58PMTuesday, April 12, 2011
F. Murray Abraham has about 30 minutes to talk before he has to go to rehearsal for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which is set to open April 14 on the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:51PMWednesday, March 23, 2011
It’s a week before the March 25 opening of Ebony Repertory Theater’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun,and Phylicia Rashad -- who's making her Los Angeles director…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:08PMFriday, March 18, 2011
Just inside the [Inside] the Ford theater, director Ron Klier and production stage manager and assistant director Tommy Dunn are sitting back in their chairs watching actors Johnny Clark and…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:18PMThursday, March 17, 2011
There is a lot going on in the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center (NHPAC) these days. Rehearsals are happening in one room, wardrobe fittings in another while lighting and sound design is …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:33PMTuesday, February 22, 2011
Director Lisa Peterson describes her latest show, in Mother Words, as a "compilation or quilt play" made up of 15 short pieces by 15 different writers, all describing what it means to be a m…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:50PM 
