Thursday, November 10, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Continuing the yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s extraordinary legacy, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles will explore the im…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:44PMMonday, November 7, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the years 1848 to 1870, the city of Los Angeles made a slow, violent transition from its previous Spanish colonial rule to the often brutal rule-of-law imposed by the n…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:36PMThursday, November 3, 2016
IN THE NEWS
The 27th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards nominees have been announced. Leading the pack this year with the most nominations is La Mirada Theatre for the Performi…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:56PMThursday, October 27, 2016
IN MEMORIUM
Pearl Bordy Frazier, the sister of Drama-Logue founder Bill Bordy, passed away on October 9 at age 88, at her home in Port Charlotte, Florida. Her brother Bill was in …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:23PMThursday, October 20, 2016
IN THE NEWS
The Theatre @ Boston Court announces the annual New Play Festival, to be held Saturdays, Nov 5 and Nov 12, at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena. This yea…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:00PMThursday, October 13, 2016
IN THE NEWS
On Oct 6, Plácido Domingo renewed his contract as LA Opera’s Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, through the end of the 2021/22 season. Domingo made his deb…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:19PMThursday, October 6, 2016
IN MEMORIAM
Center Theatre Group (CTG) mourns the loss of its Founding Artistic Director, Gordon Davidson, who passed away Sunday, October 2, 2016. Davidson began his career in 19…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:26PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
Richard Erdman (born June 1, 1925) made his film debut in Mrs. Skeffington (1944), starring Bette Davis. His seven-decade career encompasses 160 film and TV projects, …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:39PMThursday, September 29, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Longtime theatrically inconsistent Ricardo Montalbán Theatre — which originally opened as the Beaux Arts in 1927, billed as “Hollywood’s first legitimate theate…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:37PMThursday, September 22, 2016
IN THE NEWS
An aging dowager is finally getting a facelift. The five-story, 92-year-old Variety Arts Center (940 S. Figueroa Ave), a long-time contributor to LA theater—as host …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:51PMThursday, September 15, 2016
IN THE NEWS
East West Players has received a $180,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Fund for National Projects, which provides support to national performing…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:50PMThursday, September 8, 2016
IN MEMORY OF
Marvin Kaplan, a fifty-year actor-member and former board member of Theatre West, died August 25 at a hospital near his longtime home in Burbank, CA. He was 89. After…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:10PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
met the amazing classical/flamenco guitarist Phil Boroff in 1972, when I was playing guitar at the Bla Bla Café in Studio City. When he learned I was also involved in …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:24PMThursday, September 1, 2016
IN THE NEWS
This October, the Santa Monica Playhouse will host The BFF: BINGE FREE Festival of THEATRE—the first-ever two-week Santa Monica Fringe Festival featuring LA and Sant…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:58PMThursday, August 25, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Antaeus Theatre Company has vacated its NoHo home of nine years and begun the process of transferring to its new site at 110 E. Broadway in Glendale. The company has u…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:50PMThursday, August 18, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Rubicon Theatre in Ventura announced its 2016-2017 season with the theme “Stories that Matter, ” beginning with A Christmas Carol (Dec 7–24), an original adapt…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:22PMThursday, August 11, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Raising money while having some fun, TreePeople opens its 14th season of Once Upon a Canyon Night this weekend, Aug 12 & 13, featuring a reading of The Best Man, …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:15PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
southeast corner of 5th and Olive in Downtown LA was destined to house performing venues, despite an awkward history of venue names and production agendas. In 1885, pio…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:31PMThursday, August 4, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Road Theatre Company in NoHo reveals its 2016-17 season, beginning with Edward Albee’s The Play About The Baby, starring Co-Artistic Directors Sam Anderson and Taylo…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:18PMThursday, July 28, 2016
IN THE NEWS
After a relaunch of Cabrillo Music Theatre, the company’s Board of Directors announces new staff and board leadership, and a relaunched 2016-2017 season of shows. Ta…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:49PMThursday, July 21, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group celebrates 50 years at the Mark Taper Forum with a 2017-18 season that Artistic Director Michael Ritchie describes as “five plays that represent…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:24PMThursday, July 14, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Ojai Playwrights Conference announces its ninth season, Aug 4-14, featuring new works by playwrights Robert Askins, Jon Robin Baitz, Aziza Barnes, Bekah Brunstetter, D…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:37PMThursday, July 7, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Venerable Long Beach Playhouse has not slowed down in its 88th year of production. Its eight-production, 2016-17 Mainstage season (dates TBA), begins with F. Andrew Le…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:26PMby JULIO MARTINEZ
Stock Market Crash of 1929 did not affect the Hollywood film industry, which flourished with the advent of talking pictures. But the early years of the Depression did t…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:19PMThursday, June 30, 2016
IN THE NEWS
On Tuesday, June 28, Actors' Equity Association (AEA) published a statement regarding the ongoing Asner v. Actors’ Equity litigation. The full text can be found in @…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:13PMFriday, June 24, 2016
BEYOND THE FRINGE
The end of Hollywood Fringe Fest 2016 is upon us, but it's not the finale for a select number of Fringe shows chosen to extend their runs in conjunction with HF…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:45PMThursday, June 23, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
evening, a small but focused contingent of Los Angeles theater professionals gathered at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights to listen to and take part in a panel discus…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:26PMIN THE NEWS
For its opening salvo as the first resident theatre company at Greenway Court Theatre, the Not Man Apart Theatre Ensemble—led by new Co-Artistic Directors Jones Wels…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:25PMFriday, June 17, 2016
FRINGE PODIUM
Actress/author Michelle Jewsbury developed the one-woman show, But I Love Him, based on her own experience with domestic violence. Jewsbury’s Domestic Violence Sem…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:37PMThursday, June 16, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Latino Theater Company at Downtown’s Los Angeles Theatre Center has garnered a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support capacity building activ…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:55PMFriday, June 10, 2016
IN THE NEWS
The 7th annual Hollywood Fringe Festival officially opened yesterday, following a week of previews. There were over 800 attendees at last night’s 2016 Opening Night …
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