By Darlene Donloe Alex Alpharaoh is a successful playwright, actor, spoken word artist, social worker, and producer. All of those are impressive monikers, but the one designation he cove…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:16PMby Darlene Donloe Douglas C. Baker’s 40 years of working in the theater haven’t diminished his enthusiasm for the art form. If anything, his zeal has increased, he says, because he “l…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:15PMBy Darlene Donloe Gloria Gifford doesn’t consider herself a control freak, she just likes to have her “heavy hand” in every aspect of a production. “I’m a perfectionist,” she…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:41AMBy Darlene Donloe Michael Michetti didn’t plan it, but as fate would have it he is currently in the midst of a whirlwind directorial convoy that has him helming three consecutive theatric…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:36PMBy Darlene Donloe When it comes to Judith Scott’s latest role as Mrs. Kitty Warren, the title character in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession, the actress will tell you i…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 11:11PMBy Darlene Donloe Tonya Pinkins’ latest role is painful to watch. It has nothing to do with her acting ability, the dialogue, or the direction. Rather, it has everything to do with the…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:54PMby Darlene Donloe Playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm’s latest play, Br’er Cotton, is an uncomfortable reminder of the state of race in America today. The show, now playing at the …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:08PMBy Darlene Donloe It was 1967 when Robert Hooks, Douglas Turner Ward, and Gerald Krone sat down at the Orchidia restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village and mapped out, on a tablecloth, wha…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:24PMby Darlene Donloe The Robey Theatre Company, in association with the Los Angeles Theatre Center, will mount the 2017 Paul Robeson Theatre Festival, with the theme: Harlem To Central Avenue,…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:18PMby DARLENE DONLOE gozi Anyanwu has a strong constitution, and attributes a lot of her grit to her upbringing. “In Nigerian culture you’re expected to be successful,” she tells me…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:36PMThis is the second part of an interview feature by Darlene Donloe. Read Part I. This is the second time the show has been in Los Angeles. It was at the Lillian Theater. Is this th…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:03PMby DARLENE DONLOE Dolphin is sitting inside the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, watching intently as workmen put the finishing touches on the lights and set for the musical, Recorde…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:32PMby DARLENE DONLOE The name Gilbert Glenn Brown has become synonymous with "good works" around the L.A. theater world. A handsome gent with a bright, poetic smile, Brown enjoys a career …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:34PMby DARLENE DONLOE "There's just something about the theater," says Gregg T. Daniel. he’s acting or directing, both of which have garnered him praise, Daniel is committed to his craft,…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:38PMA closer look at what it takes to make #hff15 happen, along with its creator — Ben Hill.
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:33PMJohn Earl Jelks and Tracee Chimo talk about crossing the country to continue the premiere production in L.A. of Neil LaBute's play Break of Noon, at the Geffen.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMJessica Kubzansky admits that being one of the founding artistic directors at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena is the “hardest job” she's ever had in her life.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMDirector Lisa Peterson describes her latest show, In Mother Words, as a "compilation or quilt play" made up of 15 short pieces by 15 different writers, all describing what it means to be a m…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMBen Vereen still has "magic to do" -- this year as a genie in "Aladdin and His Winter Wish," the holiday-oriented panto at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:53PMEllis Williams, playing one of the jurors in the black and white-cast "Twelve Angry Men" at Pasadena Playhouse, looks back on 35 years of acting, growing up in the South, and being on a jury.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:42PMShirley Jo Finney believes she was destined to direct Marcus Gardley's "the road weeps, the well runs dry". She explains why as the play opens the LA leg of a rolling world premiere, at LATC.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PMCharlie Robinson, a friend of South Coast Rep artistic director Marc Masterson for 45 years, plays Willy Loman in Masterson's mostly African-American "Death of a Salesman."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:45PMWilliam Stanford Davis directed a workshop version of John Henry Redwood's "The Old Settler" in 2009 and now stages a full production of it at Pico Playhouse.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:02PMVanessa Bell Calloway portrays author Zora Neale Hurston, of Harlem Renaissance fame, in five performances of Letters From Zora -- In Her Own Words, at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:18PMBrooke Shields makes her stage directorial debut with Chicago, at the 17,000-seat Hollywood Bowl. She previously performed in the Broadway revival.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:19PMWatts Village's Meet Me @ Metro series returns to Watts, somewhat scaled back, as Lynn Manning returns as the company's artistic director.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:12PMGlynn Turman won an Ovation for a previous August Wilson role, but he thinks he's finally ready to tackle Wilson's work, in the Taper's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:53PMFor Jennifer Leigh Warren, "having it all" doesn't mean the same thing as it did for Helen Gurley Brown, whose book of the same name provided the title for the musical that Warren is in at L…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:17PMRuby Wax -- an American who became a well-known TV personality and comic in the UK -- tackles her own mental health problems in Ruby Wax: Out of Her Mind, at the small Edye space at Broad St…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:40PMPreparing to play Hattie McDaniel in Hattie...What I Need You to Know!, Vickilyn Reynolds visited the grave of the Oscar-winning actress in order to ask her some questions. Now, as she's abo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:14PMFormer Ovation winner David St. Louis (for Parade at the Taper) is playing George, the suitor of the seamstress in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's his second …
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