Wednesday, October 16, 2013
The transformation of Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery into a site for "Wicked Lit"'ss four dramatizations of horror stories requires a lot of planning by the production's designers.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:16PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Three solo performances -- Luis Alfaro's "St. Jude," Roger Guenveur Smith's "Rodney King" and Trieu Tran's "Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam" -- are opening in repertory at Kirk Douglas Theatre.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Michael Shaw Fisher 's Exorcistic is about a theater company that's mounting a parody of The Exorcist. It's part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, at the Open Fist.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:42PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Dan Dietz was born in Los Angeles County but spent most of his life in Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Florida before returning to LA to write for a TV series -- and to see his American Misfit, his…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMFriday, April 5, 2013
When Brian Finney saw a light bulb in a Butoh performance in Australia, a mental light bulb switched on in his head -- of course, why not perform Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a solo show? F…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:32PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Jennifer Haley's play The Nether explores a blurring of reality and virtual reality in the future. She discusses that subject with two of the actors in the play's premiere at the Kirk …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Rogue Artists Ensemble ventures into erotica with Songs of Bilitis, adapted by Katie Polebaum from the 1894 writings of Pierre Louÿs, who initially claimed that these were ancient Greek tex…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:49PMThursday, February 7, 2013
An economically strapped town decides to become a reality TV site in Paradise, a new bluegrass musical by Cliff Wagner, Bill Robertson and Tom Sage. Wagner, a reality TV veteran from the Old…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:49PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Greg Keller didn't have to do a lot of extra research to play the role of a young writer in Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, opening tonight at the Ahmanson. He's a young writer himself, as well as…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Ed Begley Jr. and David Mamet aren't necessarily on the same page in their personal political perspectives, but they are on the same stage, more or less, in Mamet's 2008 political comedy abo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:44PMFriday, September 21, 2012
Tonight City Garage opens its T1 space at Bergamot Station -- not to be confused with Bergamot's Track 16 gallery, which the Santa Monica troupe used during the past year. The first producti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:56PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
LA STAGE Alliance announced the nominations for the 2012 Ovation Awards at the Renberg last night, and here some of the nominees express their feelings about the news. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:08PMFriday, August 24, 2012
The creators of Elephant Room -- Steve Cuiffo, Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford -- assume their fictional identities during an interview about the magic-themed production, which arrives in LA S…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:32PMFriday, July 27, 2012
Theatre @ Boston Court co-artistic director Michael Michetti and Furious Theatre co-artistic director Nick Cernoch inspect the co-production process that has resulted in their joint producti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:34PMFriday, July 6, 2012
A support group for men with small penises is the subject of Martin Casella's The Irish Curse, at the Odyssey Theatre. Would you believe that Casella saw his own play in Dublin? Not that LA …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:17PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
With seven productions in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Fierce Backbone is announcing its presence with a big splash. The company aims to be as eclectic as it is fierce. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:25PMFriday, May 18, 2012
Rex Pickett has taken a creative journey through golf and wine, novelizations and filmmaking, to bring Sideways The Play to the stage. It finally premieres tonight at Ruskin Group Theatre. …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMFriday, May 11, 2012
Several of LA theater's talkback organizers offer tips on how to keep the audience engaged in conversations after the play is over (or even before it has begun). READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:42PMFriday, May 4, 2012
Padraic Duffy's new Copy is actually a new version of a play he started writing a decade ago. In the re-writing process, he discovered that the latest Duffy is hardly an exact copy of his yo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:46PMFriday, April 13, 2012
How do producer and actress Monica Raymund and director Neil Patrick Stewart keep both The Elephant Man and their own marriage healthy? As the Mechanicals Theatre production opens this weeke…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMThursday, April 5, 2012
Comedy maven Ron West has directed and acted often at Open Fist, and now he's staging Early and Often there. It's a comedy set in the ethically loose world of Chicago politics in 1960. Whi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:56PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
How does a theater company's staff assess the impact of its work on the audience? A new study based on extensive surveys at 18 theaters nationwide comes up with some answers to that question…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:54PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Director Michael Arabian, veteran Beckett specialist Alan Mandell and Land of the Tigers' Hugo Armstrong are among those waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum. Armstrong is playing Mande…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMMonday, September 19, 2011
Recently, I saw a couple of plays that made me wonder: does a good play matter? Does it matter if a play is well written? Does it matter if a play is well acted? Are these...
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 05:24PMFriday, July 15, 2011
I just had this thought: while developing a new idea for a script or a story...what if I were to put my notes up on the internet? Character sketches, plot ideas, etc, etc. It feels a...
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 08:54AM 
