On a gorgeous winter day in California, flames from a gas fireplace provide warmth and a relaxing ambience inside the renovated Craftsman-style bungalow of playwright/actor Nick Salamone, in…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMTodd Robbins, once a young magic fan from Long Beach, brings his "Play Dead" to the Geffen Playhouse. It's inspired by old-fashioned spook shows and seances.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:37PMSteve Julian's "What Kind of God?," about an episode of priestly sex abuse, arose from the Hollywood Fringe's "Altarcations," which arose from an episode of censorship in Julian's youth.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:41PMRon Eldard has been a fighter most of his life -- even literally, as a playground fistfighter and as a Golden Gloves boxer. Now the actor is tackling Teach in David Mamet's American Buffalo …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:50PMMarried for three decades, Keliher Walsh and James Eckhouse apparently still can't get enough of each other's company. Eckhouse is directing Walsh's first play Year of the Rabbit in its prem…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:38PMJohn Pielmeier of Agnes of God fame tackles another story about a young woman's interactions with Catholicism and the supernatural -- The Exorcist, based on the famous novel and film from 40…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:24PMThat Good Night may include clowning, but playwright Andrew Dolan and director Scott Alan Smith are focusing on the serious artistry of tonight’s premiere, presented by The Road Theatre Co…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMPlaywright Chuck Rose and producer/director Jack Stehlin discuss their current collaboration -- Rose's Bedfellows -- and their pasts. Rose's play is about a would-be California governor with…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PMAndrew Dolan's The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King isn't about King, but is a story that attempts to speak candidly about race. It's one of two Dolan plays soon to hit LA, and part of …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:58PMIn the first of a series of occasional articles revisiting subjects from the LA STAGE magazine archives, we catch up with actress Tracy Middendorf who graced the March 2002 cover (see photo …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:10PMDirector David Cromer -- the talk of Chicago and Off-Broadway -- brings the longest-running staging ever of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town to Broad Stage, opening tonight. Helen Hunt as …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:31PMNorbert Weisser and Bruce Katzman, respectively, play the Commandant of a Nazi prison camp and the Jewish "mayor" of the camp, who collaborate on an elaborate charade in order to deceive a R…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:26PMWhile growing up, Michael Matthews was the target of gay-bashing bullies. Later, in Chicago, he directed a play about that subject. Now he has brought that play, What's Wrong With Angry?, to…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:54PMCelebration Theatre's new Artistic Director John Micheal Beck and Executive Director Micheal Kricfalusi discuss their creative "marriage," plans for the upcoming 29th season including What's…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:53PMMichael Shepperd didn't pull any punches when he picked his last show as artistic director Celebration Theatre. Bash'd! -- a Gay Rap Opera is a hard-hitting musical production, and Celebrati…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:25PMOn a gorgeous winter day in California, flames from a gas fireplace provide warmth and a relaxing ambience inside the renovated Craftsman-style bungalow of playwright/actor Nick Salamone, i…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:40PM