Of two new musicals with similar roots, Adding Machine adds up to more than Loving Repeating. In the group therapy genre, Circle Mirror Transformation requires less suspension of disbelief …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMThe new Atwater Village Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA offer two views of sex-besotted characters in Mlle. God and Crack Whore Galore--Live. Why can't Sister's audiences ask tougher …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMWhich theater company attracts the most young adults? Why can't Clybourne Park coincide with A Raisin in the Sun? Would 33 Variations fit the Taper better than the Ahmanson?
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMMadonna or whore? Three big musicals examine this stereotype of young women: Dangerous Beauty, Gigi and Rock of Ages, with mixed results.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMThe Author at the Kirk Douglas raised big questions about how theater artists and audience deal with inflammatory subject matter such as porn and suicide. Meanwhile, Wrinkles offers a very d…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMA Noise Within's Comedy of Errors is a perfect fit in the burlesque hall dreamed up by director Michael Michetti, but why is Actors Co-op's King Lear set in 1850s California? Plus comments o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMA Noise Within's Comedy of Errors is a perfect fit in the burlesque hall dreamed up by director Michael Michetti, but why is Actors Co-op's King Lear set in 1850s California? Plus comments o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMThe number of Equity contract productions in LA grows. Small shows at big theater and vice-versa. Misbehaving in Long Beach and La Mirada.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMMayor Garcetti talks arts. "Twilight of Schlomo" in Garcetti's former district. Afterlife plays, including "Prudencia Hart." The pared-down Greeks.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 10:14PMLincoln Heights wasn't big enough for the BFA's late Carmen Zapata -- let's revive her Olvera Street dreams. A cougher competes with Beckett. Hershey Felder's Lincoln, the sequel.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:49PMDistractions inside theaters -- rustling of paper, coughing, snoring, light from phones -- require coping strategies. Two four-actor musical revues continue on Santa Monica Pier and in NoHo.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:38PMDon Shirley saw 263 productions (so far) in LA theaters in 2013. Here he remembers and highlights the top 10 percent.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMFour productions use "A Christmas Story" for their own ends. Also, commentary on the musical "Christmas Memory," an Aladdin panto and "Miracle on South Division Street".
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMWhere are the locals in the Wallis' post-"Parfumerie" season? Bette Midler evokes Sue Mengers. "The Steward of Christendom" and "Peter and the Starcatcher" occupy CTG's downtown venues.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PMThe LA Weekly cuts back on its theater coverage. Two Scandinavian plays, Strindberg's "Creditors" and "Save Me," an adaptation of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," bounce off each other.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:06PM"Play Dead," "We're Gonna Die," Endgame," "Exit the King" -- these plays may inspire thanksgiving that we're still alive. "The Normal Heart" and "The Homosexuals" depict changes in gay cultu…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:57PMMighty moms are on stage in the Colony's "Miracle on South Division Street," Theatre Banshee's "By the Bog of Cats," Production Company's "Look Homeward, Angel" and "The Nisei Widows Club."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:37PMPasadena Playhouse specializes in anger and fury. "Gidion's Knot" and "Rabbit Hole" explore the aftermath of sons' deaths. Theaters serve the communities of Skid Row -- and Rancho Cucamonga.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:47PMCompanies to the southeast of Los Angeles dominate the musicals categories at the Ovation Awards. But where are the brand-new made-in-LA musicals?
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:44PMLATC goes to the Great Plans for "the road weeps, the well runs dry" and the better "Wild in Wichita." Plus "4000 Miles" at South Coast Rep and musicals about Walt Disney and Eva Peron.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:03PMIt's beginning to look a lot like Halloween -- witness "Wait Until Dark," "Urban Death Tour of terror," "The Afflicted," "Wicked Lit." But "Invisible Cities" is a different story.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:49PMDeception isn't so shameful in some comedies -- witness "Fast Company," "Don't Dress for Dinner," "The Guardsman" and "The Liar."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:31PMLA's Neil Simon moment features big productions of "The Sunshine Boys" and the far better "Broadway Bound." Actors Co-op stages an intimate "Ah, Wilderness!"
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:01PMLA was rife with site-specific theater last week, with three Radar L.A. productions and Chalk Rep's "Gallery Secrets." Plus other thoughts on Radar L.A.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:58PMLorenzo Pisoni's "Humor Abuse" at the Taper is a better solo take on sons and fathers than Luis Alfaro's or Trieu Tran's solos at the Douglas. Plus the latest Shakespeares in Pasadena.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:22PMCenter Theatre Group lost one "Funny Girl" but should check out the 3-D Theatricals version with phenomenal Nicole Parker, in Fullerton. Also, the Colony's "Breath and Imagination."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PMA mostly-black "Death of a Salesman" at South Coast Repertory and an all-women's and cross-racial "Hamlet" at Odyssey Theatre demonstrate differences in non-traditional casting.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:03PMGertrude Stein, writing about the transformation of the site of her previously pastoral childhood home, coined the phrase ...Continue Reading
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:38PMThe LA Times proclaims a vogue for Macbeth but ignores LA's Macbeths. In the Next Room and Rapture Blister Burn examine characters named Catherine from more than a century apart.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:01PMAnother look at Southern California-set plays includes three productions in San Diego -- Sideways, Double Indemnity and Second City's take on the city, plus Open House in LA.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:06PMShakespeare's original As You Like It is in Griffith Park and a countrified musical version, Tanglin' Hearts, is at Theatre 40. Chalk Rep's Lady alfresco Lady Windermere's Fan is at Clark Li…
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