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 07:11PMIt's election year, so it's time for plenty of plays about politics. Chuck Rose's Bedfellows leads the pack by letting us see the potential as well as the flaws within its California guberna…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:12PMThree young women enter adulthood in musicals that are otherwise very different -- Cloudlands at South Coast Rep, Dames at Sea at the Colony and Miss Saigon at La Mirada -- where Jacqueline …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:29PMThe subject of class distinctions looms large in this election year. Take a look at Good People, The Prince of Atlantis, Billy Elliot, Working, even Long Day's Journey Into Night. Why are …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:57PM99-Seat Plan productions made up “only” 58% of the Equity-related productions in Greater LA in 2011. The others were on Equity contracts – something to think about as Equity considers …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:38PMThe Vault: Bankrupt is almost site-specific, located inside LATC's old bank building, produced by an organization that has had financial problems of its own. Hershey Felder has Lincoln's doc…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:30PMThe Mike Daisey flap isn't just for the East Coast -- it raises questions about whether or when any producer of non-fictional theater should vet the accuracy of the text. Plus a look at two …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:49PMAmerican Idiot -- the musical as opposed to the Green Day album -- owes a lot to its predecessor Spring Awakening, but unfortunately American Idiot isn't nearly as good. The evidence is in t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:26PMBy flexing his imagination while also connecting his fantasies to a firm narrative base, Richard Montoya makes history and the immigration experience come alive in his American Night at the …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:25PMAntony and Cleopatra is the big new production in A Noise Within's new theater that we've been waiting for. Are you enjoying the Chekhov festival -- the one that includes Theatre Movement Ba…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:02PMThe turntable in Mariano Pensotti's The Past Is a Grotesque Animal never stops revolving during the two hours' running time of these four only loosely connected stories about Argentinians be…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMReprise is in trouble. Is its mission not clear enough? Should it be just like other musical theater companies or should it continue to produce shows that can't be seen elsewhere?...Valerie …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMBurbank's midsizes focus masterfully on musicians -- Dissonance at the Falcon and Old Wicked Songs at the Colony. The latter play's writer strikes out with his latest at the Blank. Road Thea…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PMMolly Smith Metzler's Elemeno Pea is relevant to its 99%/1% era and its Costa Mesa place, and it need not apologize for getting big laughs. Cirque's Iris goes on vacation; will it return to …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:54PMJust as CTG deserves kudos for presenting simultaneous and terrific productions of A Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park, it's likely to arouse some concern and criticism for instituting a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:07PMDavid Cromer's original vision of Our Town at Broad Stage offers a lot of surprises, even from the balcony. It expands the role of Simon Stimson in a way that LA STAGE Times' own ex-Si…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:48PMTroilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's take on the Trojan War, should be seen a lot more often in LA. The Porters of Hellsgate are doing their part in Charles Pasternak's inventive staging in…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:16PMCity Garage is finally connecting the theatrical and the visual arts at Bergamot Station, re-setting Neil LaBute's early performance art piece, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, within an art …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PMIn 2011, LA Times theater critic Charles McNulty devoted much of his space to only four of LA's theater companies and too much of his time to theater in New York and London. Many of the "99%…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:04PMA look at some of the highlights of LA theater in 2o11 embraces LA plays, LA writers, CTG's smallest shows, the return of Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within's last Glendale season, two shows…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:37PMAmong the more unusual holiday shows, the Troubies' A Christmas Westside Story is riotously entertaining. Atomic Holiday Free Fall! at the Actors' Gang and A Chanukah Carol at Theatre 68 are…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:32PMTired of wondering what to do with all your old theater programs? The Los Angeles Public Library already has collected more than 30,000 of them, dating back to the 19th century. Your contrib…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:21PMA revival of Miguel Pinero's Short Eyes ricochets through LATC's Theatre 4. And two plays offer comic takes on Jewish identity in America -- Laurel Ollstein's Esther's Moustache and James Sh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:04PMCharlayne Woodard's CTG solo The Night Watcher, at the Kirk Douglas, raises CTG's overall grade on LA talent and content to a C+. Is Bring It On actually set in California, too? Pasadena Pla…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:32PMThe Geffen Playhouse has been closely identified with its founder and producing Gil Cates. Let's take a quick tour through the Cates years and then ask the inevitable question -- what now? W…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:19PMA Noise Within opens its new Pasadena home with a Twelfth Night set in pre-revolutionary Cuba. And Latino Theater Company moves to LATC's largest venue with Evelina Fernandez's Hope, set a f…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:17PMTwo revivals of plays from 1947, both of them about how civilians behaved on the home front during World War II, offer distinctive twists. Antaeus' revival of Noel Coward's Peace in Our Time…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:42PMStephen Metcalfe's The Tragedy of the Commons isn't quite a tragedy, but it an uncommonly penetrating portrait of an aging blogger who's in a modern California story reminiscent of The Cherr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:46PMI've Never Been So Happy and Monkey Adored are fables about animals behaving like humans, but they're very different in tone. Way to Heaven at the Odyssey is not only about Nazi p.r. efforts…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:09PMRevivals of the hilarious Kvetch and the moving Falsettos reveal similarities -- and differences -- between the two. South Street stinks. How the World Began shows us both sides of a debate …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:04PMThe opening of Cirque du Soleil’s astonishing new Iris at the Kodak Theatre raises a self-serving but inevitable question within the LA theater community – “what’s in it for us”? O…
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