Tuesday, November 12, 2013
The "Nisei Widows Club" comedies from a decade ago are back with a third installment -- "How Tomi Got Her Groove Back," at East West Players, directed by Amy Hill.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Velina Hasu Houston's most famous play, Tea, opened 25 years ago. Now a new version has arrived -- Tea, With Music, which features a score by Nathan Wang. But he stops short of calling it a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PMMonday, September 10, 2012
East West Players imports the Massachusetts-based but India-inpired Navarasa Dance Theater to open its 47th season, presenting an Encounter with an indigenous woman's struggle against milita…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:27PMThursday, July 26, 2012
The War Horse story continues six decades later in Farm Boy, at the Matrix. It's drawn from Michael Morpurgo's sequel to his War Horse book; Daniel Buckroyd adapted the sequel for the stage.…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:48PMFriday, June 1, 2012
Actor-playwright Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-0) seems to have taken the careful, straightforward route to this weekend’s premiere of his No Way Around But Through at Falcon Theatre starring M…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:56PMThursday, April 12, 2012
Dean Mora takes us through the beats of his musical direction of the Colony’s revival of Dames at Sea. He also talks about his passion to play popular American music from earlier era wit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:50PMFriday, March 2, 2012
Robert Owens-Greygrass, who is part-Lakota, found the Red Road, after a more troubled period of his life. He talks about what that means in his solo shows Walking on Turtle Island and Ghos…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:53PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Roy Cohn, the Communist-hunting attorney of the early '50s who died from AIDS in 1986, is the subject of Joan Beber's Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn, opening at the Odyssey. It explores the ma…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMMonday, November 7, 2011
Director Jessica Kubzansky talks about the LA premiere of Julia Cho's The Language Archive, at East West Players. It's about a linguist who tries to preserve dying languages but can't commun…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:26PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Kathryn Graf and her son felt isolated in their new home in Connecticut. So Graf, whose solo show Surviving David had explored the death of her husband, wrote the new Hermetically Sealed, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:43PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
Actors Co-op, Hollywood's Christian-based professional theater company, is celebrating the big 2-0 with a new production of an old favorite, The 1940's Radio Hour. The director, company vete…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:03PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
As she takes a break from rehearsing Rose Cottages in the sylvan setting of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, director Heidi Helen Davis is in her element. She's directing a play at the To…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:34PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Sam Anderson and Corryn Cummins discuss finding the humanity within their characters in David Harrower's one-act psychodrama Blackbird at Rogue Machine. He plays Ray, who abused her characte…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:19PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
011 marks the second year for The Hollywood Fringe Festival, and co-founder and Festival Director Ben Hill credits the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland as his principal inspiration. …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:54PMFriday, April 15, 2011
The multi-ethnic culture of New York City in the 1980s is not what immediately comes to mind when thinking of a fairy tale setting. Yet in Ben Snyder’s new play Shoe Story, having its Lo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:14PMThursday, March 31, 2011
Perhaps Chalk Repertory Theatre should be re-named Chalk Site-Specific Theatre. The company doesn't perform productions in repertory, but it's becoming one of LA theater's leading advocates …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:29PM 
