Wednesday, December 17, 2014
One thing is for sure: Los Angeles is not now, nor has it ever been, renowned for its whole-hearted support for the artistic world of ballet. A shame, for outsider dance is very much appreci…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:17PMThursday, December 11, 2014
Steven Sondheim’s masterpiece of intelligent writing (music and lyrics), Into The Woods, has been given a substantial production by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and imported to the Wal…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:49PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
This PBS documentary enshrining the late Robin Williams’ path into television and film history is a sober reminder of how even the best comics in the world often suffer from intense depres…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:03PMMonday, December 8, 2014
Noël Coward’s 1924 drama of the excesses of drugs, closeted homosexuality and fatal denial of ageing has been given a strong, if strange, production from its original run at the Malibu St…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:58PMFriday, December 5, 2014
It’s a fair question if the specific brand of anarchic humor owned by the late playwright Joe Orton (1933-1967) works anymore. A gifted comedic writer in his day, Orton wanted to – and d…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:09PMFriday, November 22, 2013
"In the Heights" is back in Boyle Heights, at Casa 0101 for the second time in a year. Director Rigo Tejeda and costumer Abel Alvarado hope for audiences from the barrio and from the West Si…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:46PMFriday, November 15, 2013
Filipinos' devotion to the TV series Dallas and other American artifacts is the topic of Boni Alvarez's "Dallas Non-Stop," a Playwrights' Arena production in Atwater.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:11PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
The most-nominated individual women for this year's Ovation Awards, with four apiece, are the mid-career director and choreographer Tina Kronis and the young actress Micaela Martinez.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Director Casey Stangl returns to Antaeus Company after her "Peace in Our Time" triumph to direct David Ives' "The Liar," a "translaptation" of Corneille's "Le Menteur."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:11PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Joshua Ravetch was inspired by a decade of working at New Line Cinema to write his ad agency tale, "The Light Bulb," opening at NoHo Arts Center.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:08PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Director Simon Levy is reviving Larry Kramer's angry polemic about the early days of the AIDS crisis, "The Normal Heart," at the Fountain. Tim Cummings stars as Ned Weeks.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:37PMFriday, August 9, 2013
Peggy Webber's California Artists Radio Theatre has a large catalogue of plays on CD but is running low on funds and radio outlets.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:28PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
The unlikely topic for a musical, the story of Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, Jodie Foster’s 1991 chilling movie, the parody has found a devoted audience. Opening in 2005 somewhere i…
SOURCE: queenscourier.com at 10:47AM 
