Friday, November 30, 2012
Los Angeles may not get a white Christmas, but the landscape is blanketed in A Christmas Carol — from the traditional to the twisted. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:26PMThursday, November 29, 2012
Writers Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort explain the serious business of creating the funny for Center Theatre Group–The Second City’s production of A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!, ope…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Break the name down as you speak it -- IAMA Theatre Company translates to "I am a theater company." And, as the title of its current production Do Like The Kids Do might indicate, it's a com…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:39PMThursday, October 25, 2012
Artists frequently support their art with day jobs -- and some of those day jobs can be found on the managerial side of nonprofit theaters. Here are stories of two such Angelenos, Diana Wyen…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:55PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Meet David Tarlow and Ryan Maes, who converted management skills learned in part at nonprofit theaters into better-paying day jobs -- without forgetting their theatrical roots. Then meet Ste…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMFriday, October 12, 2012
Jim Leonard fictionalizes the Abu Ghraib scandal to examine why soldiers in faraway combat zones might become abusers and torturers. A musical score by Rob Cairns and Beth Thornley facilitat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:06PMFriday, September 14, 2012
Family audiences are now the top priority at 24th Street Theatre, which doubles as a community center. The latest example of this programming is the US premiere of the Mexican import Rome at…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:39PMThursday, September 6, 2012
Brothers Jon and Al Kaplan moved to LA to become film composers. But they've achieved their greatest fame with Silence! The Musical, a YouTube-generated stage parody of the movie Silence of …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Chalk Rep's Flash Festival will present 15 new 10-minue plays -- five in each of three weekends -- in site-specific locations within the George Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. Audiences…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
As another Carmageddon looms, with closure of the 405 freeway scheduled for Sept. 29-30, the ARTmageddon movement is encouraging residents not only to stay close to home but also to support …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:22PMThursday, August 9, 2012
We're in an election year, but director David Chrzanowski hopes his staging of the Adrian Hall adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men will resonate beyond the story of t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:49PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday -- previously the source of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream -- receives a non-musical adaptation by Robb Derringer and Matt McKenzie at Pacific…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:30PMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Poor Dog Group was introduced at a REDCAT NOW festival and now returns to the annual event with its developing 30-minute solo production The Murder Ballad. The show's director Jesse Bonnell …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:30PMThursday, July 19, 2012
Peter Lefcourt wrote and Terry Hanauer is directing a new play with the ominous title Mutually Assured Destruction. And they're married -- to each other. Does that title reflect their work…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, a Ugandan American actor with a Hollywood career, hasn't forgotten Uganda's problems. His A Missionary Position is a dramatization based on research in Uganda about t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMThursday, June 7, 2012
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the Fringe Cabaret, from 6 to 9 each evening during the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It showcases the talent on display in the other Fringe sho…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:28PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Melora Marshall and Willow Geer are in the family business—Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and its longstanding tradition of outdoor summer repertory theater. Each appear in three plays thi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:06PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Stuart Rogers and his Theatre Tribe are keeping alert with The Sleeper, Catherine Butterfield’s post–9/11 play, opening Friday night. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Playwright Michael Elyanow has reworked Medea for modern times -- and Maine. Find out whether he thinks we treat our kids any better these days when the play opens this weekend. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:02PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Lifelike "reborn" dolls are used as therapeutic props by mothers whose babies have died or abused individuals. They're also used in Zayd Dohrn's Reborning, opening at the Chance Theater. Cas…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:04PMFriday, April 20, 2012
Michael Premsrirat's The Girl Most Likely To is loosely based on the story of murdered transgendered teenager Gwen Araujo. It's being introduced in an LATC production directed by Jon Lawrenc…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:35PMThursday, April 12, 2012
You might think that you would never be seduced into seeing a play about propaganda by reading an online article about Cody Henderson’s The Bewildered Herd at Greenway Court, but we dare y…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:21PMFriday, April 6, 2012
The internet is the central character in Matthew McCray's Eternal Thou, a sci-play that incorporates a little Martin Buber as well as the idea that technology is taking over the world. McCr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, March 30, 2012
Reid Scott, best known as a TV actor, directed plays in his New York salad days. Now he's making his LA stage directing debut with a production of The Elephant Man, produced by a group of fr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, March 23, 2012
Damon Chua's own odyssey led him from Singap0re to LA to New York. When the playwright became eligible for US citizenship in 2009, he decided to write about a particular year in the Americ…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:42PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Circle X rolls out the first result of its new in-house play development model with Leo Geter's Naked Before God, a comedy that touches on porn, penance and politics. Artistic director Tim W…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMFriday, March 16, 2012
The Production Company revives the Studs Terkel-derived musical Working with a look at the solitary experience of the modern workplace -- and a live band that wasn't possible in the group's …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:37PMFriday, February 24, 2012
Theatre Movement Bazaar has previously treated Chekhov's plays as components within its highly choreographed productions,. But now it's tackling a Chekhov short story, Ward 6, in partnership…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, February 10, 2012
Jon Marans has both a new play and an old play up in LA right now -- The Cost of the Erection at the Blank and Old Wicked Songs at the Colony. He makes 100% of his living from his plays. Adv…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:32PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Lars Jan presents Abacus, a TED Talks-style presentation, examined from many different angles. He cautions that the shifting nature of the show makes it "a Trojan horse" -- but don't call it…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:30PMThursday, January 19, 2012
The Furious Theatre re-emerges at [Inside] the Ford, after losing its Pasadena Playhouse home a year ago. The vehicle is Matt Pelfrey's ambitious No Good Deed, which mixes the graphic novel …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:54PM 
