Thursday, February 28, 2019
By Ed Rampell
Julian Sands, who played George Emerson in the 1985 Merchant Ivory film version of to E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel A Room With a View, returns to the Italy-set romance a third…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:00PMBy Ed Rampell
Since first taking the stage in 1982 with Alfred Jarry’s Ubu the King, The Actors’ Gang has, in terms of form and content, specialized in a subversive edge and wit. Direct…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:50PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
By Ed Rampell
God Help Us! deals largely with news personalities and comes at a time when reportage is under attack. It also stars the actor who portrayed one of television’s most famous …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:11PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
By Ed Rampell
E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime is a panoramic political period piece featuring fictitious and real characters in early 20th century New York. Doctorow’s progressive pa…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:08PMSunday, February 3, 2019
By Ed Rampell
Hosted by The Kilroys, an L.A.-based, pro-gender balance collective of playwrights and producers, many presenters and winners stressed equality between the sexes on the stage …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:36PMThursday, January 24, 2019
By Ed Rampell
Alfred Molina personifies the talent pool that makes Los Angeles theatre so rich and vibrant. For his movies the British-born actor has been nominated for BAFTA and Independen…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:36AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
By Ed Rampell
Actor French Stewart may be best known to national audiences for his roles in TV sitcoms, including as Harry Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun and as Chef Rudy in the current s…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:06PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
By Ed Rampell
The Actors’ Gang’s “2018/19 Hellzapoppin Season” opens with an adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun, an anti-war classic about a World War I s…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:10PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
By Ed Rampell
Star Trek’s Sulu From the Screen to the Stage
George Takei may be best known for playing helmsman Lt. Sulu in the original Star Trek sci-fi series and six of the franchis…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:47AMThursday, February 8, 2018
By Ed Rampell
“I thought it was a great show, all of the presenters were fun, the music was great,” gushed award-winning costume designer Michael Mullen about the 28th Annual LA STAGE A…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:18PMMonday, January 22, 2018
by Ed Rampell
Since 2008 John Perrin Flynn has produced all of the main stage productions of Rogue Machine Theatre, one of 2017’s most Ovation-nominated intimate theatre companies, which …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:02PMFriday, December 1, 2017
By Ed Rampell
A Timely Take on Sexuality (Or Lack Thereof)
In yet another era when sexual scandals rock America’s cultural and political power centers, Ruth Fowler’s disturbing drama…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:36PMFriday, September 1, 2017
By Ed Rampell
Of Femmes, Physics and Philosophes
There is some encouraging chatter about the steady closing of the gender gap in the sciences, despite a 2012 Yale University study which …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:36PMFriday, August 4, 2017
By Ed Rampell
Gender Bender Bard on the Boards?
Some may regard Shakespeare’s comedy, As You Like It, as a mere merry, frothy confection. And to be sure, it is highly entertaining …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:48PMFriday, July 28, 2017
By Ed Rampell
Tackling Totalitarianism with Absurdity
Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 parable about pachyderms belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. Yet, the production of Rhinoceros, now at…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:09PMFriday, July 21, 2017
By Ed Rampell
Canto I: From Page to Stage
The Actors’ Gang has teamed up with the Los Angeles-based nonprofit group Get Lit - Words Ignite to present Dante, a spoken word musical…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:30PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
By Ed Rampell
Still Relevant After All These Years
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s (WGTB) current production of Animal Farm is based on George Orwell’s famed 1945 Novella. Sir P…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:45PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
By Ed Rampell
Shakespeare in the Park's Julius Caesar has sparked controversy with the Public Theater's outdoor production in Manhattan's Central Park of Julius Caesar featuring a Trump l…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:04PMFriday, April 14, 2017
by ED RAMPELL
national theater community fired its first shot at the incoming Trump regime November 18, when Hamilton’s cast admonished then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence after a per…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:03PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
by ED RAMPELL
Clash is just wild about Ari — Aristophanes, that is. Sapo (which means “Frogs” in Spanish) is the comedy trio’s latest send-up of the Greek playwright, who wrote T…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:52AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
by ED RAMPELL
1989, LA STAGE Alliance founded the annual Ovation Awards ceremony “to recognize excellence in theatrical performance, production and design in the Greater Los Angeles ar…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:36PMThursday, June 30, 2016
by ED RAMPELL
play’s the thing,” says the melancholy Dane in the second act of Hamlet. But sometimes, the plays themselves are not the only thing that theaters offer. Rather, it’s…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:01PMMonday, June 6, 2016
by ED RAMPELL
first play I saw in Los Angeles upon my return from Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, was Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, playing at the Odyssey Theatre through July 17. …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:15PMMonday, April 4, 2016
interview by ED RAMPELL
Why did you write this updated version of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus’ The Pot of Gold?
EVELINA FERNÁNDEZ: The Latino Theater Company was appr…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:48PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
by ED RAMPELL
-Theatre” gives form to the truism “truth is stranger than fiction” on the boards. Don. K. Williams, Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company’s Associate Director, …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:21PMFriday, October 23, 2015
by ED RAMPELL
the curtain lifts on live stage productions in Los Angeles, thesps sometimes deliver a garden variety of announcements: Locations of fire exits; pleas for donations; reques…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:39PMFriday, July 10, 2015
The significance of a native character (and actor) in August: Osage County.
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:43PMFriday, January 10, 2014
Eric Rudnick's "Day Trader," opening at the Bootleg, features another role for recent Ovation winner Brighid Fleming. She plays opposite Danton Stone in his LA stage debut.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:45PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
A panel discussion on diversity at Pasadena Playhouse attracted a group of top Southern California artistic directors but grew livelier when audience members asked questions.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:21PMFriday, December 13, 2013
The annual December 24 Holiday Celebration, presented by LA County Arts Commission at the Music Center,
features music, dance -- and diversity.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:43PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Can theater survive in the Hollywood neighborhood? That was the topic at Stayin' Live, a gathering last Saturday at the Montalban Theatre.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:32PM 
