Barbara 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…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMTom Dugan's Simon Wiesenthal -- Nazi Hunter, acclaimed at Theatre 40 last year, moves to Ventura's Rubicon Theatre. Although Dugan's father told him stories about his World War II service,…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMGathering at UCLA Hillel for the first two days of its 31st conference, the Association for Jewish Theatre produced panels that began with jokes but went on to discuss ethical values, Jewish…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:20PMSam Anderson is directing Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge at the Road, where he is a co-artistic director. Here he also talks about his experiences in TV's Lost, the recent play Blackbird,…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:21PMLA County's annual free holiday celebration at the Music Center, which is broadcast live for three hours on KCET-TV, requires some complicated planning and split-second timing behind the s…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:29PMKathrine Bates' The Color of Rose uses three actresses, on stage together, to portray Rose Kennedy in three stages of her life. The West Coast premiere opens tonight at Theatre 40. Bates, wh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:39PMSherry Glaser created a durable hit, Family Secrets, 21 years ago in LA, but now she's concentrating more on the re-awakening of Mother Nature. It's the subject of The Second Coming: A O…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:05AMJohnny O'Callaghan's solo show Who's Your Daddy? at the Little Victory Theatre relates the tale of his adventures adopting an orphan in Uganda -- and more. His past also includes a stint in …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:31PMKate Bergh's costumes can be seen in two big shows right now -- South Street at the Pasadena Playhouse and Reprise's Cabaret at UCLA. After reading about the designer and her work, you can s…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:02PMDirector Richard Israel helms Falsettos as the inaugural production for YADA's new Third Street Theatre and explains why a "small musical with big themes" offered him a great opportunity to …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:22PMSarah Treem is moving from writing HBO's In Treatment and Netflix's House of Cards to watching a workshop performance of her newest play, When We Were Young and Unafraid, at the Ojai Playwri…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:49PMRoxanne Hart, now appearing in A Death in Colombia, has found new inspiration from working in LA's small theaters. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:13PMHer email address begins with “nifttt”, which she says stands for “nothing is funnier than the truth.” (It could also stand for “nifty,” which she most certainly is.) For a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:35PM“By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank.” Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Or…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:04PM“All theater is a character telling a story---as if he were sitting around a campfire.” Playwright Wendy Graf is sitting around a table at a cafe in Burbank as she quotes iconic direct…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:46PM“We have a live lamb on stage and she’s not housebroken---or, more accurately, stage-broken---so our first run-through was a bit redolent,” director Scott Paulin says. He’s talking…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:25PMYou might think living in an all-pink house would give you a toothache. But, au contraire, Jackie Goldberg, the “Pink Lady,” has made her all-pink home a delightful nest of airy lig…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:16PMFascinated by the life and career of celebrated pianist Clara Schumann and her relationships with her then-less-celebrated husband, composer Robert Schumann, and their protégé, Johannes Br…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:01PMYou 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 play…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:50PM"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 semi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:31PMAnne McNaughton, associate artistic director and co-founder of Andak Stage Company, is speaking proudly of her husband, actor/teacher/Shakespearean scholar Dakin Matthews, and the new play, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:11PMThe term “shy actress” would seem to be an oxymoron---at least for those movie queens who came to stardom during Hollywood’s “Golden Age.” Think Joan Crawford or Bette Davis or K…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:01PMSalome Jens “Anne Sexton saved my life,” Salome Jens says. The actress, still beautiful in her 70s, sits munching her salad in a trendy outdoor cafe. Her words are startli…
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