Monday, January 7, 2013
Would you believe two tourists from Florida traveled to more than140 LA theatrical productions this year? More tourists might discover LA theater if the discoverlosangeles website, LA touris…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PMMonday, December 17, 2012
LA theater had plenty of high points in 2012. Here they're organized by size of theater -- the big, the middle, the small. Also an account of yesterday afternoon at Broad Stage, where a Fl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:21PMMonday, December 10, 2012
The bigger LA theaters decided to do holiday productions this year. But none of 'em tops the Troubies' Rudolph/Doors stew. CTG's Second City Carol is a fiasco, but could its Other Desert Cit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:07PMMonday, December 3, 2012
Cirque du Soleil's Iris, planned to last at least a decade in Hollywood, will leave town in January after only about 18 months -- apparently because it has been selling only about half its t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:19PMMonday, November 19, 2012
Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strad, at the Colony, might remind you of that company's terrific Old Wicked Songs, but it has its own distinctive charms as well. A change in the Ovation Awards …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
The Ovation Awards might have advanced Center Theatre Group's awareness of local talent. The best musical in a larger theater is yet another variation on Forbidden Broadway? Herbert Siguenza…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMMonday, November 5, 2012
In LA theater, non-liberals are few and far between. Could it be because theater is the most extreme "public option" in the performing arts? But sometimes the result is "preaching to the cho…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:50PMMonday, October 29, 2012
The Colony has declared a fund-raising emergency. A collapse of this midsize company would be a disaster for LA theater in general -- a signal for others to do safe plays with small casts. B…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:17PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Evelina Fernandez's Faith at LATC completes her Mexican Trilogy in fine form. It includes the trilogy's first scenes that are actually set in Mexico, before the action switches to the '30 …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:56PMMonday, October 15, 2012
Atwater Village looks so peaceful, but its theater is filled with war -- Circle X's premiere of Jim Leonard's Abu Ghraib musical Bad Apples and EST/LA's premieres of Nate Rufus Edelman's The…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:14PMMonday, October 8, 2012
The Mark Taper Forum's November and Ebony Rep's Fraternity examine the final days of disparate election campaigns, just in time for the final weeks of the 2012 campaign. David Mamet's Novemb…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:22PMMonday, October 1, 2012
Fathers and daughters are the focus of Bart DeLorenzo's staging of Cymbeline at A Noise Within and Marc Masterson's rendition of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at South Coast Rep. Meanwhile, Lynn Not…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:47PMMonday, September 24, 2012
It's comedy tonight with two new plays: the Pasadena Playhouse's Under My Skin, which applies a human perspective to the health care debate, and Katselas Theatre's Focus Group Play, which …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:15PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Musical satires are breaking out all over -- none bigger than Book of Mormon, which is even more of-the-moment now than it was when it opened in New York. Xanadu is better here than it was i…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:36PMMonday, September 10, 2012
Plays about middle-aged spouses and younger lovers are so common that a playwright has to do a lot to stand out from the crowd. Look at Euripides' Helen, as adapted by Nick Salamone for Gett…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:49PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Independent Shakespeare Company attracted more than 2800 theatergoers to Griffith Park last Sunday and nearly 38,000 to its summer season. Its last production, Comedy of Errors, featured a m…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:18PMMonday, August 27, 2012
CTG not only almost entirely avoids LA in its upcoming season at its three venues, but a reference to its devotion to LA content that used to be on the CTG website is now missing -- even tho…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:55PMMonday, August 20, 2012
As we approach the national political conventions, political plays are popping up. A look at How Obama Got His Groove Back, The Grönholm Method, The Government Inspector, The Return to Mora…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PMMonday, August 13, 2012
A jaded dramaturge and a world-famous painter try to pass on their wisdom to younger talents in John Morogiello's Blame It on Beckett at the Colony and John Logan's Red at the Mark Taper For…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:15PMMonday, August 6, 2012
The late Joan Stein was a specialist in commercial mid-size theater, especially at Beverly Hills' Canon Theatre, which she ran with Susan Dietz. Is that kind of theater a dead duck in LA? …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:56PMMonday, July 30, 2012
Midsize theater leaders respond to the charge that they aren't interested in new plays. Smaller theater producers elect representatives to a committee that will speak for them in talks about…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:52PMMonday, July 23, 2012
LA's annual Bard blast offers more than just Shakespeare -- it also offers plenty of adaptations of Shakespeare, from Chance Theater's intimate West Side Story to Vanguard Rep's alfresco Jul…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:47PMMonday, July 16, 2012
Summertime -- and the Shakespeare is everywhere. The Shakespeare Center returns to the VA Japanese Garden with another As You Like It, Independent Shakespeare draws big crowds but wants a pe…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:48PMMonday, July 9, 2012
Even Charles McNulty now acknowledges that LA's midsize theaters are the "logical" place to introduce new plays that aren't picked up by LORT theaters. So why does he explore this issue by t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:01PMMonday, July 2, 2012
Good grief. The Women of Lockerbie at Theatricum Botanicum and Grace Notes & Anvils at the Odyssey explore many aspects of grief in very different but very effective ways; the latter pla…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:56PMMonday, June 25, 2012
The trip made by a sturdy Jitney from South Coast Rep to Pasadena Playhouse raises questions about why more such transfers don't take place. The Fringe ends, with Nina Variations and eggshel…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:03PMMonday, June 18, 2012
How should a theatergoer choose between Fringe shows that close sooner and other shows that close later but might be better? Why hasn't the Fringe found a midsize venue in Hollywood where pr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:07PMMonday, June 11, 2012
The LA Times again overdoes the Tony Awards coverage, while ignoring LA theater awards. Yussef El Guindi's Language Rooms at LATC is a must-see, and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper isn't…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:17PMMonday, June 4, 2012
With Los Otros at the Taper and Charity at LATC, two of our bigger stages are occupied by the premieres of productions about the Mexican diaspora in southern California -- a rare and excitin…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMMonday, May 14, 2012
Follies was the first production at LA's Shubert Theatre, and that theater's imminent demolition 30 years later was the occasion for a Follies-like reunion, which is recalled by the experie…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:02PMMonday, May 7, 2012
Springtime on Spring Street brings authentic LA stories -- Cornerstone Theater's production of Lisa Loomer's Café Vida, inspired by the saga of the Homegirl Cafe, and eight short plays at C…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:11PM 
