Thursday, February 18, 2016
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 f…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:01PMThursday, February 11, 2016
IN THE NEWS
NBC 4’s favorite weatherman is reviving his one-person show, An Evening With Fritz Coleman, on March 5 as a fundraising event for the Colony Theatre in Burbank. Unfor…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:03PMFriday, February 5, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
, Community Television of Southern California, first signed on the air on September 28, 1964, as an affiliate of National Education Television (NET). When James Loper ca…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:27PMThursday, February 4, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Ron House, co-creator of the monumentally successful farces El Grande de Coca Cola and Bullshot Crummond, passed away Friday, January 29. House had re-created his iconi…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:15PMFriday, January 29, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
Theatre Group has extended its Community as Creators Project — engaging LA communities in the creation of live theatre — to Leimert Park in the southern area of L…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:58PMThursday, January 28, 2016
IN THE NEWS
LA Opera at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will launch its six-production 2016-17 MainStage season with Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, starring Artistic Director Plácido Domin…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:00PMThursday, January 21, 2016
THE THING IS
Hollywood has a new outlet for live theater. The Basement at Mack Sennett Studios will inaugurate its new space with the premiere of Salome, “a radically queer reinvent…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:16PMThursday, January 14, 2016
IN THE NEWS
Sheldon Epps is leaving his position as Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse at the end of the 2016-17 season. Epps joined the “State Theatre of California” …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:39PMThursday, January 7, 2016
IN THE NEWS
La Mirada Theatre, in association with Sue Vaccaro, Ricky Stevens & The Rivet Gang, is hosting the pre-Broadway outing of Empire—a new Depression-era tuner focusi…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:57PMWednesday, January 6, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
an eight-season tenure there, Rogue Machine—one of LA’s most successful 99-seat houses—is moving out of Theatre/Theater on West Pico Boulevard by the end of Janua…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 07:33PMMonday, January 4, 2016
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the 2010-14 HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Eddie Cantor (played by Stephen DeRosa) is prominently featured as an up-and-coming song-and-dance entertainer plying his trad…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:18PMThursday, December 17, 2015
For the final LA STAGE Insider column of year 2015, I would like to spotlight the thoughts, reflections and hopes of varied members of our LA theater community.
Evelyn Rudie (who cre…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 05:28PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
by JULIO MARTINEZ
'Tis the season to believe in angels, and Sacred Fools Theater Company certainly has cause to affirm their existence — two of them, at least.
a potential crisis of …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:50AMThursday, December 10, 2015
IN THE NEWS
To inaugurate its second 50 years of underwriting, the National Endowment for the Arts is awarding $27.7 million in support of 1,126 projects in 49 states, plus America…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:34PMThursday, December 3, 2015
IN THE NEWS
The previously announced tuner, Titanic, has sunk out of Ahmanson Theatre’s 2016 season lineup. Replacing it is the 2007 Tony-nominated Grey Gardens—Doug Wright (bo…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:13PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
by JULIO MARTINEZ
father owned a restaurant, The Stage Coach Café, in the Trailways Bus Depot, located at 6th and Main Streets in Downtown Los Angeles for close to 40 years. On Friday a…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:31PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Rubicon Theatre's 2016 mainstage season, Fair Ladies, Fine Gentlemen (and Others), begins with See Rock City, Arlene Hutton’s 2007 second installment of the Nibroc …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:54PMThursday, November 19, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Orange County’s Chapman University will officially inaugurate its new $78-million, 88,000 square-foot performing arts complex, the Musco Center for the Arts—named f…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:38PMThursday, November 12, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Renowned architect Frank Gehry, thinking a bit smaller than his Downtown LA Disney Concert Hall, is making his 99-seat debut as set designer for the West Coast premiere…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:28PMThursday, November 5, 2015
IN THE NEWS
In response to the lawsuit filed against Actors Equity Association by 18 members of the LA theater community, including Ed Asner, AEA issued this brief statement on Nov…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:44PMThursday, October 29, 2015
IN THE NEWS
A plethora of stage and screen notables—Jason Alexander, Barbara Bain, Shelley Fabares, Mike Farrell, Ed Harris, Gregory Harrison, Sharon Lawrence, Amy Madigan, Alan …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:31PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
by JULIO MARTINEZ
ever a theater could be cursed by a single event, it just might be the luxurious Majestic Theatre at 845 S. Broadway, built in 1908 by the firm of Edelman & Barnett…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:32PMThursday, October 22, 2015
IN THE NEWS
On October 16, eighteen members of the Los Angeles-area branch of Actors’ Equity Association filed suit in LA federal court challenging AEA’s decision to eliminate…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:26PMThursday, October 15, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Skylight Theatre’s hit premiere musical farce, El Grande CIRCUS de Coca Cola, closes down this weekend on Oct 18. That doesn’t mean it is going away. This zany tune…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:31PMThursday, October 8, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Latino Theater Company (housed at downtown LA’s Los Angeles Theatre Center) and Road Theatre Company in NoHo, are the only local recipients of the 2015 ICWP 50/50 App…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:42PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
by JULIO MARTINEZ
obert Thaddeus (R. Thad) Taylor is born in Wendell, Ohio, on August 29, 1925. Moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, he trains as an electrical engineer prior to serving …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:28PMFriday, October 2, 2015
by JULIO MARTINEZ
the final weeks of November 1930, when architects S. Charles Lee and S. Tilden Norton were in the announced final stages of constructing the monumentally ambitious, 1,…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:47PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
*Note: LA STAGE Insider is ordinarily published on Thursdays. We've bumped it to Wednesday this week because tomorrow we'll be announcing the 2015 Ovation Awards nominees.
IN THE NEWS
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SOURCE: thisstage.la at 01:44PMThursday, September 17, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Following a five-year relationship with Sterling Events/The Fold concert promoters, Bootleg Theater, the downtown LA-adjacent performing arts center, is unifying all pr…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:58PMThursday, September 10, 2015
IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group announces the Mark Taper Forum’s five-play 49th season, beginning with three West Coast premieres: The Mystery of Love & Sex by Bathsheba Dor…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:05PMThursday, September 3, 2015
IN THE NEWS
To celebrate its 25th year as a major live theater presence in LA, Fountain Theatre’s 25th Anniversary Gala and Auction will honor Co-Artistic Director and award-winn…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:37PM 
