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Thursday, January 17, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Book of Mormon and Wicked can both claim box office records at the Pantages...Hollywood Fringe Festival and Directors Lab West begin registration for the 2013 sessions...Jo Bonney to stage M…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PM
Thursday, January 10, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

La Virgen de Guadalupe was missing from the Christmas theater season, but Latino Theater Company has found a new sponsor for 2013...Two of Celebration Theatre's former artistic directors nam…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PM
Thursday, January 3, 2013

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The website Bitter Lemons and the program publisher Footlights are joining forces...LA Women's Theatre Festival prepares for its 20th anniversary...Apollo Dukakis discusses A Noise Within's …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:43PM
Thursday, December 20, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Victory Theatre plans a 2013 season but still has to raise money for two of the three shows...CTG Writers' Workshop begins again...Andrew Vonderschmitt explains Long Beach Playhouse's storyt…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:30PM
Thursday, December 13, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The Colony's next show will go on, thanks to the success of the extended current show, The Morini Strad...Sideways moves up from Ruskin to La Jolla...Jane Kaczmarek and Gregory Harrison at t…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:32PM
Friday, December 7, 2012

Kass and the Mancinis Sit Down to Discuss Siddown! by Julio Martinez

Before Sam Henry Kass moved to LA, where he worked on Seinfeld in 1994-95, he wrote plays in New York. Now he revives three of his one-acts under the title Siddown! One of them stars former …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Thursday, December 6, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

LA Opera pays off a big debt...Dámaso Rodriguez of Furious Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse named artistic director of Artists Repertory in Portland, Oregon...Remembering Gar Campbell. READ M…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Hugo Armstrong Waits for God, Godot…and Sam by Julio Martinez

Fresh from winning an Ovation Award for Waiting for Godot, Hugo Armstrong tackles the role of Sam in LA Theatre Works' Lips Together, Teeth Apart -- a role that he doubts he would ever play …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Thursday, November 29, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Latino Theatre Company receives NEA grant, which will help support national festival and conference in 2014…Free holiday play readings include the traditional, eclectic, comedic, political…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Reprise resurfaces… Upright Cabaret on the upbeat… Afia Fields talks Dop3… A look back at LA County’s annual performing arts Christmas broadcast READ MORE

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PM
Friday, November 16, 2012

Loretta Swit on November Yankee and NoHo by Julio Martinez

Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H fame teams with Harry Hamlin in Joshua Ravetch's One November Yankee, opening tonight at NoHo Arts Center. They play siblings who have survived a plane crash. READ MO…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PM
Thursday, November 15, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

James Blackman announces more delays of South Bay CLO's comeback in a YouTube video...Hollywood Fringe Festival will expand by a week in 2013...Chance Theater's 2013 plans...Holiday programm…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:27PM
Thursday, November 8, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities slates a Nov. 21 revival of Thoroughly Modern Millie -- and a revival of the company itself -- at the Warner Grand in San Pedro...The Colony raises enou…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PM
Thursday, November 1, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Chris Rock at LA Theatre Works...Pacific Resident Theatre to produce Bergman's Nora...A free LA Opera performance...Frédérique Michel discusses The Bald Soprano...The evolution of Drama-Lo…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Gilmer and Kurup Plant Cornerstone’s Seed by Julio Martinez

Cornerstone Theater brings its Hunger Cycle to Inglewood for the premiere of Seed, Sigrid Gilmer's play set among LA's urban farms -- but with elements of magic and surrealism, says director…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Thursday, October 25, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Book of Mormon's weekly take of $2,246,093 sets a record...The Detective's Wife veers away from the Road...Long Beach Opera's season...Linda Gehringer discusses SCR's How to Write a New Book…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:16PM
Thursday, October 18, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Antaeus announces 2013 plays...Dates scheduled at Pasadena Playhouse for the briefly controversial Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo...the latest seedlings at Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse...Val…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM

Finney Enters the Fountain’s Red and Brown Water by Julio Martinez

Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy has attracted much attention nationwide. LA's first sampling of it, In the Red and Brown Water, arrives Saturday at the Fountain, gui…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:44PM
Thursday, October 11, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Boston Court's new theater season...South Coast Rep opens a new Santa Ana project thanks to $600,000 from Irvine Foundation...Paul Linke's Time Flies returns on its 25th anniversary...Kelly …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:10PM
Thursday, October 4, 2012

LA STAGE Insider by Julio Martinez

Diane Rodriguez a TCG veep...Judd Hirsch in Freud's Last Session at Broad...Katselas programs plays about black women...Hudson programs musicals...Former critic Wenzel Jones returns to actin…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PM
Friday, September 28, 2012

Christopher Knopf: The Red Room by Julio Martinez

Veteran screenwriter Christopher Knopf ventures back into his younger years in Hollywood in his first play, The Red Room, especially focusing on an extravagant father who was a movie produce…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:54PM
Thursday, September 27, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Pasadena Playhouse nabs lots of NAACP nominations... Pal Joey is out and La Razon Blindada is in the Rubicon's 2012-13 season, and Food Confessions replaces eXtras...Odyssey to turn out the …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:12PM
Thursday, September 20, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Downey CLO's death averted...Faith, part three of Evelina Fernandez's Mexican Trilogy, opens Oct 19 at LATC...Gary Lamb of Crown City describes a recent medical emergency he encountered whil…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

‘Robin Pru’ Gets Under My Skin in Pasadena by Julio Martinez

Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser emerge from 300 episodes of series TV -- about half of them from The Nanny -- to enjoy the relatively luxurious schedule of writing and polishing a play. T…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Friday, September 14, 2012

Three Directors Assume Command of Three Views by Julio Martinez

Henry Murray's Three Views of the Same Object, at Rogue Machine, is now being staged by John Perrin Flynn, Hollace Starr and Brett Aune, after original director David Anspaugh left a week ag…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PM
Thursday, September 13, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Actors' Gang's Elizabeth Doran is Pasadena Playhouse's new executive director...South Coast Repertory's new season at Studio SCR...With director David Anspaugh leaving Three Views of the Sam…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PM
Thursday, September 6, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Ovation Award nominations announced next Tuesday...Tribute to Joan Stein on Oct. 8...Glaudini moves from MTW to Moonlight...City Garage opens a new space at Bergamot and a new play by Mee...…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Theatricum Tries On David Gow’s Cherry Docs by Julio Martinez

David Gow had no idea that his Cherry Docs would receive a hundred productions -- the most recent of which opens Thursday at Theatricum Botanicum. Considering that it's about a skinhead accu…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:46PM
Thursday, August 30, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Downey Civic Light Opera appears doomed after the current season...Steven Glaudini appears to be leaving Musical Theatre West...The attempted extension of Deathtrap falls into a...deathtrap.…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:10PM
Thursday, August 23, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The Mark Taper Forum and International City Theatre 2013 seasons are announced...Cornerstone gets a $50,000 grant...VS. Theatre will take over the former Black Dahlia space...Dave Barton dis…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:17PM
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Fountain Waters Fugard’s Blue Iris by Julio Martinez

Fountain Theatre's US premiere of Athol Fugard's The Blue Iris will again remind us that this small theater has become Fugard's artistic home away from his actual home in Del Mar and his hom…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM

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