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 Pa…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:08PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Last week's Center Theatre Group release announcing the upcoming Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2016-2017 season made intriguing mention of the launch of Block Party: Celebrat…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:44PM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ 1986, I interviewed character actor King Donovan, who was in the midst of a bus-and-truck tour of On the Twentieth Century co-starring his wife, Imogene Coca. My per…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:32PM[SHARE]ENSEMBLE SURREAL Sacred Fools Black Box Space is hosting two large cast revivals during Fringe Fest: Loft Ensemble, still renovating its new home in Sherman Oaks (former home of L…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:27PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group continues its 50-year sojourn in LA, announcing Kirk Douglas Theatre's 13th season, which includes: four premiere regular season productions, two …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:31PM[SHARE]NEWS This year's Hollywood Fringe Fest is underwriting five 2016 Fringe Scholarships, selected from nearly 40 applicants. In this debut grant, the winners are Disrupted, written a…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:22PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS It is surprising that broadcast TV juggernaut CBS is not underwriting this effort, but Deaf West Theatre"whose production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's Spring Awa…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:52PM[SHARE]NEWS Academy Award nominee/Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison, in a pre-recorded cameo, has joined the cast of Grey Ensemble Theatre's premiere of Fuck My Life, focusing on how the…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:38PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Construction is underway to convert an empty commercial building into Antaeus Theatre's new cultural arts center at 110 East Broadway in Glendale. When complete, this …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:05PM[SHARE]NEWS After seven short years, Hollywood Fringe Festival has managed to garner what venerable Edinburgh Fringe (founded in 1947) has not accomplished in 69 years: financial recogni…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:28PM[SHARE]IN MEMORY OFÂ WILLIAM SCHALLERT (July 6, 1922"May 8, 2016) August 2000, I was invited to the home of actor William Schallert, where he graciously allowed me to mine the memories o…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:21PM[SHARE]NOTEWORTHY Making its Hollywood Fringe debut is writer/artist Charlotte Dean's collection of short fiction, Charlotte's Shorts, spotlighting "the most loveable, self-centered, …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:48PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS The Laguna Playhouse Board of Directors has selected Ellen Richard to be its Interim Executive Director. She will assume the position while the Playhouse is underta…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:05PM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ Â 1984 Summer Olympic Games were awarded to Los Angeles in 1978. And, as stipulated by the Olympic Charter, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC) was ma…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:10PM[SHARE]On Sunday, May 1st, tickets go on sale for all productions participating in the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival. AT THE NEW RESIDENCE Sacred Fools is not only supp…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:08PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Loft Ensemble has lost its space at 929 E. Second Street (the former home of the City Hearts arts outreach program) in downtown LA's Arts District. Not to be deterred,…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:09PM[SHARE]The upcoming Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016 will spotlight a plethora of new theatrical faces gracing our local stages. It is also providing an outlet for local stages to introduce their war…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:24PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Following 21 months of renovations and an expenditure of $65.8 million, the historic, LA County Arts Commission-administered, 1,200-seat John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:44PM[SHARE]Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016 will descend upon Los Angeles anon (June 9-26). As the pre-Festival activities move forward, @ This Stage will provide newsworthy weekly updates leading up to …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:18PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Seldom utilized for live theater, the Montalban Theatre in Hollywood is dusting off its stage and orchestra pit for the premiere of I Only have Eyes For You, highlighti…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:24PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS The Broad Stage has revealed a 2016-2017 season with a skimpy, two-production live theatre schedule. Solo performance diva Anna Deavere Smith takes the stage with Notes…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:07AM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ famed European dance ensemble, The Berkoff Family, emigrated to the U.S. from Odessa, Russia, in the early 20th century, youngest daughter Frieda (1903-1976) became ena…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 11:33AM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS AIDS Project Los Angeles' much-traveled, yearly Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E) is taking up residence at Beverly Hills' Wallis Annenberg Center fo…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:38PM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ the historic El Portal Theatre (built in 1926) was taken over by North Hollywood-based theatre ensemble, Actors Alley, in 1997, the space was converted into a 360-seat …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:13PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Cabrillo Music Theatre, which has resided at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza for the last 22 years, is shutting down. Citing "escalating theatre costs, unmet commitments…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:00PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS In April 2007, Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances made its New York debut in Cherry Lane Theatre's Primary Stages season, following its premiere production at Fountain …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:11PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre will inaugurate its new black box performance space, the 1700 Theatre, with Justin Tanner's Ovation Award-winning, three-chara…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:40PM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ the 1850s, eight newly arrived Jewish merchants spoke the first words of mamaloshen (Yiddish mother tongue) in the City of Angels. Fifty years later, the Jewish populat…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:22PM[SHARE]by JULIO MARTINEZ October, 1985, highly motivated Artistic Director Bill Bushnell marshaled enough city, county, corporate and public support to move Los Angeles Actors Theatre (founded …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:23PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS LA's independent public TV broadcaster KCET, national satellite network Link TV (KCETlink), and visual media outlet explore.org are collaborating with Long Beach Opera …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:14PM[SHARE]IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group and Cornerstone Theater Company have both been accorded $115,000 grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's (DDCF) 2016 Building Demand for…
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