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Thursday, December 12, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Nearly $300,000 of NEA grants go to LA-area stage companies....Miki Shelton is Antaeus Company's new executive director...Valery Ortiz plays a new role in Casa 0101's "In the Heights"...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:23PM
Thursday, December 5, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The small-company Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles and its midsize counterpart are merging...Hollywood Fringe Festival dates are June 12-29...Kila Kitu directs...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:29PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Most of the area's major artistic directors will appear on a diversity panel at Pasadena Playhouse on Dec 16...Hal Landon tackles Scrooge #34...Edward Everett Horton's LA theater connection.…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:22PM
Thursday, November 21, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Actor Dan Gerrity, who won LA awards in the '80s and '90s, dies in Santa Fe...LATW records "Reasons to be Happy"...Rubicon's four holiday attractions...Sandy Yu...Don Eitner.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:08PM
Thursday, November 14, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Ticket prices for Midler's Mengers show break a Geffen Playhouse record...David Hyde Pierce will direct Taper's and Durang's "Vanya..."..."Newsies" en route to LA..."Stoneface" rescheduled...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:01PM
Thursday, November 7, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Mayor Eric Garcetti's dismissal of Olga Garay-English from her job as head of LA's Cultural Affairs Dept. angers some of LA's theatrical leaders...KCET embellishea "Invisible Cities"...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:07PM
Thursday, October 31, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Bitter Lemons' Colin Mitchell turns playwright for a revised revival of his "Breaking and Entering"...Skylight's LAb Works...Ovation nominee Gigi Bermingham...Preston Sturges' Sunset Strip s…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:33PM
Thursday, October 24, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Chance Theater announces its first season in its larger quarters...LA's version of "Annapurna" scheduled for Off-Broadway...Ovation nominee Burt Grinstead...Whitefire Theatre history.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:13PM
Thursday, October 17, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Tucker Smallwood keeps riding "The Sunset Limited," now with Joe Spano at the Rubicon..."Earnest" at Athletic Club...Readings at Boston Court...Katie Rubin in "Why I Died"...Santa Monica Pla…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:52PM
Thursday, October 10, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Jim Royce leaves CTG...Antaeus announces its 2014 season...Changes in Laguna Playhouse season...Irene Diaz...Gene and Toni Bull Bua...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:22PM
Friday, October 4, 2013

Theatre Unleashes Trust in New NoHo Home Above Crown City by Julio Martinez

Theatre Unleashed moves to a new home, above Crown City Theatre in NoHo, and opens Steven Diet'z's "Trust." Gregory Crafts and Carlos Martinez talk.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:59PM
Thursday, October 3, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Latino Theater Company wins $225,000 in Doris Duke money for next year's Encuentro festival..."Smokey Joe's" without the shimmy...Darin Anthony at Moving Arts...Alliance Rep history...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:57PM
Thursday, September 26, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

South Coast's buildings re-named after David Emmes and Martin Benson...Boston Court's 2014 season...Elyse Mirto from A Noise Within's "The Guardsman"...Oliver Hinsdell...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:37PM
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

An ASL-Signed Algernon From Deaf West and McCray by Julio Martinez

Matthew McCray and Deaf West adapt "Flowers for Algernon" into a signed-and-spoken story in which Charlie (Daniel Durant) is deaf, at Whitefire Theatre.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM
Friday, September 20, 2013

Gold and Levey Re-Unite on the Road to Lake Anne by Julio Martinez

After a medical and academic career, Marthe Rachel Gold returned to the theater as a writer. Her onetime director John Frank Levey, now a prominent casting director, stages her "Lake Anne."

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:59PM
Thursday, September 19, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Bette Midler in John Logan's Sue Mengers show replaces "Coney Island Christmas" at the Geffen...Furious Theatre returns to the Carrie Hamilton with new artistic directors...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:40PM
Thursday, September 12, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Paul McCartney and Tom Hanks are expected to participate in Shakespeare's Center's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" fund-raiser...Kevin Stidham plays Sherlock Holmes...Looking back at tiny Califor…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:55PM
Thursday, September 5, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Chance Theater moves down the block and expands...Pasadena Playhouse reports bright 2012-13 figures...Theatre Unleashed moves...A look back at Richard Basehart Theatre...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:01PM
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Finding the Tone in Joyce Carol Oates’ Clusters at Theatricum by Julio Martinez

Joyce Carol Oates' short play "Tone Clusters" receives its West Coast premiere at Theatricum Botanicum, featuring Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James, plus four Oates monologues.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PM
Thursday, August 29, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

New seasons for the Mark Taper Forum and 24 STreet Theatre...Deaf West tackles "Flowers for Algernon" at the Whitefire...Rmembering the Golden Theatre...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:44PM
Thursday, August 22, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

New seasons are announced for LA Theatre Works, CalRep and Native Voices. A glance back at the Golden Mall Playhouse in Burbank.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:55PM
Monday, August 19, 2013

The Wallis Awaits Its Debut in Beverly Hills by Julio Martinez

The long-awaited Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will open in October. Programming has been announced in its two theaters.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:36PM
Thursday, August 15, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The Radar L.A. lineup will include the use of three of LA's vintage movie palaces...International City Theatre's season...Skylight honors McNally...West Coast Ensemble history...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:53PM
Thursday, August 8, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

French Stewart TV series delays Stoneface at Pasadena Playhouse...Hershey Felder's Rockstar at Laguna...Joyce Carol Oates at Theatricum...Gary Austin of Groundlings fame...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:42PM
Thursday, August 1, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Musical Theatre West's new season...No more theater in Downey Civic season...A new name for the Pantages?...Francesco Vitali's brief moment as Hamlet...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:21PM
Thursday, July 25, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

LATC's fall season...Foundations assist in big new programs at CTG, SCR...the next Book of Mormon run in LA expands...Theatre 40's The Manor...the theater known as Wilshire or Saban...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:28PM
Thursday, July 18, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

REDCAT's eclectic 10th annual New Original Works Fest...Michael Bateman named A Noise Within General Manager...Josefina Lopez's Trio Los Machos returns...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:28PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

LynnMarie Rink Wraps Her Heart Around It by Julio Martinez

Nashville's Grammy-nominated, accordion-playing LynnMarie Rink "Wraps Your Heart Around It," her new solo show at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre in Burbank.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:31PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Previously on a financial brink, Colony Theatre schedules a new season...where Reprise might have gone...Jason Delane on One Night in Miami...the curse of the Majestic Theatre...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:36PM
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Absolutely Filthy named Top of Fringe in Hollywood festival awards ceremony...Theatre 40's next season...Theatricum's Poets' Gathering...Egan/Musart Theatre...

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:25PM
Friday, June 28, 2013

Alcestis Reaches Critical Mass at Boston Court by Julio Martinez

Nancy Keystone's Critical Mass Performance Group brings the premiere of its adaptation of Euripides' Alcestis to Theatre @ Boston Court.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:32PM

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