"Every day I walk in here I feel so lucky!” Annie Hendy, bubbling over, sits in the lobby of the Falcon Theatre in Burbank to talk about her personal odyssey as she presents it in her …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMYou might call director Elina de Santos an Arthur Miller groupie -- not to trivialize, but to celebrate, her lifelong devotion to the works of the man she considers America's greatest playwr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMFascinated by the life and career of celebrated pianist Clara Schumann and her relationships with her then-less-celebrated husband, composer Robert Schumann, and their prot�g�, Johannes …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMOn the heels of a great success in "Fallen Angels," Mary-Pat Green turns her attention to Sebastian Barry's "The Steward of Christendom" at the Taper.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:48PMBruce Norris' dark comedy "The Pain and the Itch" played Pasadena before his "Clybourne Park" fame. Now, a revival is set in Pacific Palisades. Jennifer Chambers directs Eric Hunnicutt and B…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:56PMSanta Monica's new mid-size Moss Theater, alongside a New Roads School campus, welcomes professional theater artists, especially if they're willing to do something for the students.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:26PMEve Gordon, opening in Shem Bitterman's Open House at the Skylight, has played roles ranging from Marilyn Monroe to the pub proprietor in Peace in Our Time.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:23PMShakespeare specialist Louis Fantasia has instead opted for a Goldoni play, Trouble in Chiozza, for this year's Classical Theatre Lab production in a West Hollywood park.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:13PMPeter Lefcourt's The Assassination of Leon Trotsky is subtitled "A Comedy." Joel Swetow and Murielle Zuker play actors who are in a play about Trotsky and Frida Kahlo.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:03PMPamela Dunlap stars as an out-of-shape middle-aged flamenco student in Stephen Sachs' Heart Song, at the Fountain.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:10PMTeri Ralston played her first role at age 12 at Laguna Playhouse. Now she has returned there from New York to play Ouiser in Steel Magnolias.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:33PMLindsay Nyman, co-writer and co-director of Theatre for the Blind's new play Yesterday's at Promenade Playhouse, talks about the methodology of working with blind actors. The title of t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:11PMTwo Hollywood legends -- director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler -- are the subject of the Falcon's Billy & Ray, which is about their work together on Double Indemnity. The pla…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:11PMMark Schwartz, who produced Menopause the Musical, returns with Divorce Party the Musical, which -- like Menopause -- uses familiar pop tunes with re-written lyrics. It's a collaboration w…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:24PMA single, 40-something New Yorker tries to acquire a baby in Lori Jaroslow's musical The Baby Project. It will christen Road Theatre's new second space on Magnolia Boulevard at the NoHo Seni…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PMRoad Theatre's new second space is ready for its close-up at the NoHo Senior Arts Colony on Magnolia Boulevard. It has plenty of restrooms, we're promised. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:34PMJudd Hirsch, playing the title character in Freud's Last Session at Broad Stage, discusses the doctor and Darwin and the subject of playing many Jewish roles -- which have included, besides …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:19PMA revival of The Rainmaker at Edgemar Center is the occasion for a three-way chat among director Jack Heller, Robert Standley in the title role, and Tanna Frederick -- who plays Lizzie and r…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:07PMNoHo Senior Arts Colony, a new and partially subsidized housing development, features a professional theater that the Road Theatre Company is about to occupy. The partnership might signify a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:53PMPlaywright Carole Real turned a misdiagnosis of pancreatic cancer into a comedy. Doesn't Anyone Know What a Pancreas Is? opens Wednesday in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Speakeasy, staged by Jen…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMWomen affiliated with Ojai Playwrights Conference will take the stage to portray discuss transitions and turning points, in Milestones next Thursday as part of the Ojai conference. Here are …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:45PMCostume designer Jessica Olson has to create costumes that can fit two casts for the Antaeus Company's Macbeth. And director Jessica Kubzansky is placing the idea that the Macbeths had a chi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:25PMArtistic directors talked shop with each other, and looked at the bigger picture too, at an LA STAGE Talks discussion Monday at the Geffen. Among the participants were Michael John Garces, O…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:46PMPlaywright Murray Mednick continues in the tradition of his Padua Playwrights with The Fool and the Red Queen, opening tomorrow night. He’s ably interpreted by director Guy Zimmerman. RE…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:35PMThree theater critics, a playwright and an actress gathered at KPCC Monday to discuss "Arts Criticism -- How Does It Serve Los Angeles?" It was part of the LA STAGE Talks series sponsored …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:32PMMona Golabek, a third-generation concert pianist, concentrates on her mother's story in The Pianist of Willesden Lane at the Geffen. As a child, her talented mother was shipped out of reach …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:44PMAuschwitz survivor turned clutch purse manufacturer Lucy Deutsch has now turned her autobiography into the musical No Time to Weep, opening at the Matrix. Starring as the young Lucy is Caitl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:19PMAfter directing her daughter's school production of Anything Goes, the former Cheers writer/producer Cheri Steinkellner created a new show from old songs in the public domain in order to giv…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:30PMDavid McClendon met David Lee Stafford when they were freshmen in an Oklahoma college. Now the former David is directing Laura, the noir play that its more famous for its movie version, for …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:03PMFriends in Russia, Ilia Volok and Eugene Lazarev are now involved in an adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman in West Hollywood. Volok is performing the solo show under Lazarev's direction…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:13PMBarbara Bain, of Mission: Impossible fame, chose to accept the mission of playing a gallivanting archeologist, who researches the female brain, in Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body, at Edge…
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