Wednesday, June 6, 2012
LA STAGE Times Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens recalls a summer 2009 afternoon spent with the legendary author, who reminded her why she wanted to be a writer. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:36PMIn honor of Ray Bradbury's passing today at 91, we re-post this July 2009 interview by Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens from the LA STAGE Times archives. As we said then -- "A month shy of …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:16PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Crystal Cruises’ Serenity heads through the Panama Canal to colorful Cartagena while eye-catching costumes, ear-catching performances and conversations—including one with The Birds star …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:20PMThursday, May 3, 2012
Crystal's Cruises' Serenity sails south, and the performers on this theater-related cruise have to vie for rehearsal space and time. How about the fitness room after midnight? Susan Claassen…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:46PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
A cruise is making is way down the Mexican coast, en route to the Panama Canal and then New York -- and it will benefit such LA arts nonprofits as Center Theatre Group and the Gay Men's Chor…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:15PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
After a critic called Wendy Johnson "a Judy Holliday clone," she began investigating her inner Holliday. The result is Johnson's Concealing Judy Holliday, a multi-actor play about the origin…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:15PMThursday, February 9, 2012
JoBeth Williams equates making her LA intimate theater debut in Joel Drake Johnson's The Fall to Earth at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble to climbing Mount Everest. Director Robin Larsen helm…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:42PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Kathleen Turner discusses how portraying the late iconic Texas columnist, in the West Coast premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kiss-Ass Wisdom of Molly Ivins opening tonight at the Geffen, fit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:05PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Director Sheryl Kaller discusses her long bi-coastal journey with Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall from first reading to Off-Broadway sensation to Broadway Tony Award nominee. She gleaned new ins…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:28PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Anne Archer discusses her return to the stage as Jane Fonda in Terry Jastow’s Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion at Edgemar Center for the Arts, what playing Mrs. Robinson in The Gr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:17PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Director Anne Bogart discusses SITI Company's production of Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa, her new criteria for projects at 60 and why 'just keep walking' is a mantra she…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:02PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
Hal Linden and Christina Pickles have circled each other’s orbit since both became Broadway regulars in the early '60s, then network television stars on Barney Miller and St. Elsewhere -…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:59PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
No one could accuse Ann Closs-Farley of being beige. The multiple award-winning costume designer best known for her eye-popping creations in Ken Roht’s 99¢ Only holiday extravaganzas to…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:43PMWednesday, May 11, 2011
Going to Mitzi Gaynor’s home is like being invited over for a play date with your soon-to-be new best friend and her gal pals. Not only do Nellie Forbush and Ethel Merman make cameos but…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:27PMFriday, April 22, 2011
All politics are personal. None more so perhaps than the fight over gay marriage, currently playing itself out in California courts and on stage in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage P…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:13PMWednesday, April 6, 2011
Tis the theatrical season for high-end call girls. First a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica in Dangerous Beauty and now Manhattan-based Charlotte in the premiere of Jane Anders…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:36AMWednesday, March 2, 2011
Annie Potts is an actress film and television audiences have come to trust. From Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters) to Mary Jo Shively (Designing Women) to Mary Elizabeth “M.E.” Sims (Any Day…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:40PMWednesday, February 9, 2011
Dangerous Beauty Director Sheryl Kaller has a favorite mantra she likes to impart after making adjustments or giving notes: That is a change and change is good. The phrase could easily be a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:26PMFriday, February 4, 2011
Legendary costume designer Theoni Aldredge died on Jan. 21. The next day, Soyon An began technical rehearsals for the premiere of the musical Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PMFriday, January 28, 2011
LA STAGE Times was given permission to witness the process Dangerous Beauty underwent in the final months leading up to its world premiere opening at the Pasadena Playhouse on February 13, 2…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:17PMWednesday, December 8, 2010
Helen Helen discusses the joys of playing Beatrice in The Shakespeare Company of Los Angeles’ Much Ado About Nothing, her bi-coastal theatre roots and why she’s not suited to stage dire…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:28PMWednesday, November 17, 2010
Katey Sagal. Photo by Raquel Krelle
Katey Sagal is outside her comfort zone. It’s been 25 years since she trod a legit stage and she readily confesses to being hip deep in WTF territo…
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