The solo show is its own special beast. And the 2014 Fringe boasts as many as ever in the line up. Among them is Lost in Lvov created and performed by multimedia artist and storyteller Sandy…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:34PMThe similarities between theater and religion, suspension of disbelief and leaps of faith, were among the topics at an LA STAGE Talks panel discussion on religion and art.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:37PMLet them entertain you...as they ask you for donations. Antaeus and Rogue Machine are employing nudity in their year-end fund-raising campaigns.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:30PMActress Amanda Weier also directs "The Invisible Play" at Theatre of NOTE and helps Open Fist search for a new theater space.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:10PMKaren Anzoategui shuttled between LA and Buenos Aires while growing up, seeking to understand her identity as a queer Latina. Futbol helped. Her story, " ¡Ser!," is at LATC.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:20PMMainStreet Theatre commissioned Luis Alfaro to write "Aesop in Rancho Cucamonga" for its youth audience. Director Robert Castro joined the process.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:09PMLA small-theater veteran actor and producer Don Boughton directs Jason Grote's "Civilization," which the playwright has made more LA-specific for Son of Semele.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:56PMComparing career paths of artists rarely paints the same road map twice. But something successful artists often have ...Continue Reading
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:34PMRadar L.A. explores contemporary puppetry with Janie Geiser/Erik Ehn's "Clouded Sulphur,", Basil Twist/Yumiko Tanaka's "Dogugaeshi" and Gisele Vienne/Dennis Cooper/Johnathan Capdevielle's "J…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:39PMTom Jacobson is museum executive by day, playwright by night. He blends both of these in "Gallery Secrets," Chalk Rep's site-specific production at the museum where Jacobson works.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:23PM"Hamlet", opening soon at the Odyssey Theatre, is expected to be the final production of Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, say Lisa Wolpe and Natsuko Ohama.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:36PMOnline crowd-funders such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo can help pay for nonprofit theatrical productions, says some of the LA companies that have used them.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:27PMSnapshot interviews of Alice Tuan, Jiehae Park, Lucy Alibar and Laura Schellhardt, whose plays are being developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference next week.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMA grittier, edgier “Judas Iscariot" remount comes to Hollywood, courtesy of producer Dee Smith and Zombie Joe’s Josh T. Ryan.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:15PMDowntown Repertory Theater uses the historic Pico House for its productions, such as the current and rarely-see Dido Queen of Carthage by Marlowe.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMHenry Ong's Sweet Karma, at GTC Burbank. is a fictionalized account of the story of Haing Ngor, the Cambodian doctor turned Academy Award winner turned murder victim.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:48PMPolice interviews with the female astronaut at the heart of 2007's headline-grabbing NASA love triangle scandal inspired "Starcrosser's Cut," a drama by writer/director Joseph Tepperman and …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:38PMTheatre of NOTE and Theatre Movement Ensemble transform Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof into Hot Cat..
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:12PMIn The Anatomy of Gazallas, Janine Salinas Schoenberg writes about a transitional home for young women that's run by a leader who also tries to evangelize for her religious beliefs. It's pro…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMJason Wells' The North Plan examines a dystopian government's intrusions into personal privacy via a small-town police station. It isn't necessarily a Republican government , but the play is…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMDirector Jessica Kubzansky has re-assembled most of her design team from Boston Court's 2012 production of The Children in Pasadena in order to work on The Phantom Tollbooth, produced by Mai…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:20PMGhost Road Company's The Bargain and the Butterfly, inspired by a a Hawthorne short story, has been in development for nearly two years. Director Katharine Noon, sound designer Cricket Myers…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:21PMGiven the blessings of the Janis Joplin estate to create a musical tribute show, Randy Johnson devised a plan to honor her alongside the women singers who influenced her -- and to avoid the …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PMThe director and four of the actors who shook up the LA small theater scene in 2002 with a rough and raw production of Trainspotting, the play about Scottish heroin addicts in the '80s, are …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:07PMWooster Group audiences are accustomed to radically deconstructed texts of older plays. But Richard Maxwell of New York City Players, who directed three of Eugene O'Neill's Early Plays for W…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:21PMBootleg Theater produces or co-produces a lot of theater, but it has expanded over the last three years into a locus for indie bands, puppets, spoken word, dance, even "lady arm wrestlers" a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:30PMTheatre Movement Bazaar returns to Three Sisters in its series of Chekhov-inspired performance pieces. This new adaptation, Track 3, emphasizes the music. It opens at the Bootleg tonight and…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PM"Hey kids, let's put on a show." But it's never that simple. Membership companies have to balance the members' wishes, the company's goals, the artistic directors' authority, public producti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:33PMSome of the prominent independent publicists who promote LA's small and midsize theaters -- Judith Borne, Jerry Charlson, David Elzer, Libby Huebner, Sandra Kuker, Lucy Pollak, Phil Sokolof…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:25PMEver been to an office party that seems to last, say, 17 years? Bob's Holiday Office Party is entering its 17th season, this year at Pico Playhouse. But audience members don't have to make c…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:03PMLos Angeles may not get a white Christmas, but the landscape is blanketed in A Christmas Carol — from the traditional to the twisted. READ MORE
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