Friday, May 19, 2017
IN THE NEWS
The 2017 opening night party for the Hollywood Fringe Festival will be held on June 7th at Fringe Central. To get a head-start on the Fringe experience, attend preview…
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South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, with productions on its Segerstrom and Julianne Argyros Stages, will launch its 2017-18 season Sept. 2–30 with the mult…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:42PMThursday, May 18, 2017
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the first 130-plus years of the United States' existence, the apex of upscale cultural life in the nation was live theater. By the 1880s, the introduction of formulaic …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:33PMFriday, May 12, 2017
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The 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival guide is now available for you to view online. There are still pre-festival Fringe events to attend, including the final Workshop o…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:34PMThursday, May 11, 2017
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Center Theatre Group has added to the considerable list of talent set for its 50th Anniversary Celebration, a one-night-only production from writer/director/producer …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:24PMThursday, May 4, 2017
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Playwright and screenwriter Josefina López (Real Women Have Curves), founding artistic director of Casa 0101, will celebrate her 30th anniversary as a writer with the…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:18PMThursday, April 27, 2017
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Laura Zucker has announced her plans to leave her 25-year position as Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission as of July 31, 2017. Under Ms. Zucke…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:27PMThursday, April 20, 2017
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Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie has announced separate co-commissioning partnerships with four internationally renowned theatres. Chicago’s Go…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:12PMThursday, April 13, 2017
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Lythgoe Family Panto (LFP), in association with The Pasadena Playhouse, expands its annual Panto at the Playhouse for the holiday season, this year premiering Beauty a…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:42PMThursday, April 6, 2017
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Center Theatre Group announced its 50th-Anniversary Celebration, paying homage to 50 years of excellence and spotlighting CTG’s education and community outreach prog…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:01AMThursday, March 30, 2017
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Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena continues its free Community Engagement programming with a poetry reading and book signing with Dan O'Brien on Apr 9. P…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:31PMThursday, March 23, 2017
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Center Theatre Group invites current undergraduate and graduate-level college and university students to attend the Going Pro Career Fair, hosted by East Los Angeles C…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:32PMThursday, March 16, 2017
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Building the Wall, a two-person play by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle, All the Way), will open on Mar 18 at the 99-seat Fountain …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:06PMThursday, March 9, 2017
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Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse will present Backstage at the Geffen, a 15th annual fundraising event including an online auction featuring luxury vacations, one-of-a-…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:42PMFriday, March 3, 2017
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Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse couldn’t wait until the exact performance dates and directors were in place to announce its 2017/18 season, which will open with the W…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:42PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
by JULIO MARTINEZ
1852, the great British tragedian Junius Brutus Booth was touring Northern California with a small troupe that included his sons, 21-year-old Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:24PMThursday, February 23, 2017
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Bootleg Theater announces its 10th Anniversary Mardi Gras Grand Bal Masque. Hosted by comedian Al Madrigal, Bootleg’s Mardi Gras party features the talents of chante…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:42PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
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Artists at Play (founded in 2011) will present Chay Yew’s drama Question 27, Question 28, in association with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:43PMThursday, February 9, 2017
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New York-based The Wooster Group will be touring The Town Hall Affair, based on Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's film, Town Bloody Hall, documenting a rowdy 1971 …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:57PMThursday, February 2, 2017
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Rose Portillo, Daniel Valdez, Jeanine Mason, and Jeremy Ray Valdez will join previously announced Demián Bichir in the cast of Center Theatre Group’s revival of Lui…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:37PMFriday, January 27, 2017
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Sacred Fools Theatre has launched its 20th season, beginning with the West Coast premiere of Rose and the Rime—the tragic and magical story of the frozen town of Rad…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:32PMThursday, January 19, 2017
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In its first LA performance since the early 1950s, Kurt Weill’s rarely produced social indictment of apartheid-era South Africa, Lost in the Stars, will be staged by…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:15PMMonday, January 16, 2017
by JULIO MARTINEZ
1950, noted stage and screen thesp Charles Laughton was about to go on the road with the four-person play Don Juan in Hell, which he adapted from the third act of Georg…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:34PMThursday, January 12, 2017
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Theatre of Note in Hollywood has announced its 22nd Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, featuring more than 50 performers in an all-day, all-night extravaganza of c…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:12PMThursday, January 5, 2017
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LA theater vets Gregory Crafts and Jenn Scuderi Crafts have launched the venue management firm StageCrafts LLC, officially taking control January 1 of local theatre sp…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:54PMFriday, December 16, 2016
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The City of Inglewood has awarded an Inglewood Growing Artists Performed Project (IGAPP) grant to playwright Henry Ong to stage his six-hour adaptation of the famed Ch…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:42PMThursday, December 15, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
December 1949, just one week before Christmas vacation, the fifth grade classes of Eastmont Elementary in Montebello were given a special treat: a field trip to the hil…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:48PMThursday, December 8, 2016
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The Geffen Playhouse will honor Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award-winning artists Quincy Jones and Mel Brooks at its 15th annual Backstage at the Geffen fundraiser, �…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:50PMThursday, December 1, 2016
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Group Rep opened its 43rd season with Phil Olson’s premiere comedy, A Nice Family Christmas, with Broadway veteran guest artist Marcia Rodd, running through Dec 18 a…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:22PMThursday, November 17, 2016
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Hollywood Fringe announces its 2017 Fringe Scholarships program, with awards now doubled from five to 10 scholarships, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:35PMThursday, November 10, 2016
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Continuing the yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s extraordinary legacy, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles will explore the im…
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