Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The artistic directors of Southern California's regional theater powerhouses came together Monday night on the Pasadena Playhouse stage for what was billed as a panel discussion "on the stat…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:25PMMonday, November 11, 2013
"The thing that is so amazing about music," exclaims the excited voice over the phone, "is I feel that it is so much more immediate. ... It's just like ... I don't know, it's just like, I me…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:02PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
At Silver Lake's old Bethany Presbyterian Church on a recent Thursday night, a gathering of well turned out Angelinos murmur with nervous anticipation.
A sudden hush falls over the room as …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
In the new theater production Hospital, Wunderbaum, the irreverently incisive Rotterdam theater collective, whose work has wittily examined the abrasive interstices between culture and the l…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:25PMMonday, September 23, 2013
In 2011, much of the inaugural edition of Radar L.A. -- the biennial festival of new works by renowned international and L.A.-based theater companies and artists -- was centered around downt…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:36PMFriday, September 20, 2013
For theater-habituated Angelenos with an appetite for the cutting edge, the Radar L.A. Festival is more than the mere gathering of "the world's most influential performing ensembles" and "in…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:30AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
When it comes to putting up a show, Los Angeles' small theater community isn't generally known for its readiness to give a play a second chance. The custom here is to roll the dice, stoicall…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:37PMMonday, June 24, 2013
Back in 2007, stage director Becca Wolff and composer Byron Kahr got to talking. They had just been to see Spring Awakening, the smash, musical Broadway reworking of the 1891 Frank Wedekind …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:53PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
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Inside East Hollywood's Sacred Fools Theatre on a recent Sunday afternoon, actor Donal Thoms-Capello is capering through a bizarre step of percussive,…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:46PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
"I've come to believe that all theater is 'experimental theater,'" declares Los Angeles stage auteur Joseph Tepperman. "But I don't know -- there's a problem with using that word because the…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Theater is ephemeral. No matter how transformative or transcendent or thrillingly hair-raising a particular production might be, unlike a TV show or a movie or a YouTube clip, once the final…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMMonday, April 15, 2013
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Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the ans…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 07:14PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Cornerstone Theatre Company does not believe in art for art's sake. Nor, for that matter, do they believe in merely putting on plays. At least not in the marbled-restroom, big-ticket-opulent…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:48PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Only in Los Angeles could you expect to find a star-studded gala in a shopping center parking structure. But that's because only Burbank would think of squeezing its premiere legitimate stag…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:25PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
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Former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson scored one of the more impressive comebacks of his colorful career last night. That he did so …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:39PMFriday, February 22, 2013
When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 07:43PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
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It did not take Alex Lyras long to realize that there was something uniquely different about performing Mike Daisey's solo play The Agony and Ecstasy …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:00PMRichard Maxwell confesses that he had never even heard of Eugene O'Neill's S.S. Glencairn plays prior to getting a fateful call in 2011 -- "totally out of the blue" -- from the acclaimed Woo…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
It has been said that actors are born, not made. And though it may be more accurate to say that they are born and then made, there are certain performers whose will to act seems to be singul…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:14PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
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Take a look at what passes for children's theater in this country and one might well conclude that childhood constitut…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
In recent weeks, a baffling teaser ad that has been running in print and on the sides of Metro buses around town has been provoking "Wtf!?" bewilderment from readers of the Los Angeles Times…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PMFriday, December 21, 2012
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Whatever else it might entail, making live theater begins with real estate -- a plot of land and a building to …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PM 
