Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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 05:00PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Promenade Players and an Italian company collaborate in Santa Monica...EST/LA announces two new wartime plays...New American Theatre's new season...Under My Skin cast for Pasadena Playhouse.…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:45PMThursday, August 9, 2012
In memoriam -- Dale Olson, Joan Stein and Marvin Hamlisch...Hollywood Fringe Festival ticket sales went up 25% over last year...Thomas Bradac brings his adaptation of Venus and Adonis back t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:59PMFriday, August 3, 2012
Jamie Pachino wrote The Return to Morality in 1998, as a reaction to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, but it has much longer legs than Pachino ever expected. Now the Production Company is prese…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThursday, August 2, 2012
RADAR L.A. the Sequel expected in Sept-Oct 2013...Robert Egan returns to the Taper to direct Other Desert Cities...24th Street Theatre's new season...Death's Holiday canceled in favor of Tit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:35PMThursday, July 26, 2012
Marilyn Monroe banner filched...Sanaa Lathan returns to playing Vera Stark...Theatre 40 season...A Steinbeck premiere...Stephen Spinella at Falcon...New music team for Sleepless in Seattle..…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:58PMThursday, July 19, 2012
Ebony Rep will present the LA premiere of Fraternity at the Holden...Readings series at Long Beach Playhouse and the Road...Shakespeare Orange County's season...Jules Aaron's many projects..…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:10PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Nilo Cruz wrote Lorca in a Green Dress, in which the Spanish poet and playwright travels through purgatory, during the same period when Cruz was writing his Pulitzer-winning Anna in the Trop…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMThursday, July 12, 2012
REDCAT's Original Works Festival...LA Theatre Works and Cal Rep seasons...Adam Rapp's Blackbird returns...Celebration cancels Design for Living...Arielle Jacobs on the Girls Camaraderie Proj…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Nora Dunn is polishing her new solo show Mythical Proportions at the Road Theatre in NoHo, although she says its premiere will take place in her home t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThursday, July 5, 2012
Scratch next season at [Inside] the Ford -- a victim of upcoming renovations of the upstairs Ford Amphitheatre...Dreamhouse returns, in NoHo...Fugard US premiere at Fountain...Open Fist and …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:10PMThursday, June 28, 2012
APA brings Boy From New York City to Coast...Sinner wins Sherwood...Farm Boy follows War Horse...The Merchant of Venice With Music set for two West Hollywood parks...Brownstein's hairdresser…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:23PMFriday, June 22, 2012
In Laurie O'Brien's first career, in Colorado, she worked with the psychologically troubled. After moving to LA and an actor's life, she played the schizophrenic Mary Barnes in her breakth…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThursday, June 21, 2012
Marilyn Monroe's name to go on a second LA theater...CAP UCLA, the successor to UCLA Live, returns theater to the mix in its first season...A Noise Within's second season in Pasadena...Crown…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Three Hollywood Fringe Festival participants and enthusiasts -- Gregory Crafts, Matthew Quinn and Gedaly Guberek -- discuss ways in which the Fringe can contribute to the larger LA theater, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:34PMThursday, June 14, 2012
Downtown LA's proposed Broadway Arts Center, Cornerstone Theater and CalArts receive ArtPlace grants...Shakespeare Center of LA returns to alfresco summer production with As You Like It at t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMFriday, June 8, 2012
Matt Shakman and James Roday, young theater artists who made money in TV, are re-investing some of it in a joint home for their companies, Shakman's Black Dahlia and Roday's Red Dog Squadron…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PMThursday, June 7, 2012
CTG announced next season at the Kirk Douglas...memories of Ray Bradbury...David St. Louis is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow...Theresa Rebeck and Josefina Lopez plays...The Manor is back...Morgan Fa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMThursday, May 31, 2012
Matt Shakman and James Roday partner to purchase El Centro…LA STAGE Alliance and Rogue Machine Theatre partner to save the planet…Ahmanson Theatre and Actors Co-op save the best for thei…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:45PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh make an unlikely pair, literally, in crafting their two-hander musical, Los Otros, for the Mark Taper Forum. The SoCal centric play opens this Sunday…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, May 25, 2012
Mark Roberts knows Where the Great Ones Run. He has run with a few of them—in the TV industry and onstage. The Mike & Molly creator's play opens Rogue Machine's 2012 season with its …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:14PMThursday, May 24, 2012
Casting for The Exorcist is exciting enough to make our heads spin…Chorale looks OK…Hollywood Fringe entries not looking frayed...Blank’s Young Playwrights getting underway…A look ba…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:38PMThursday, May 17, 2012
Broadway League creates Latino-audience development partnership… Fundraisers and extended runs abound…Dave Barton helms Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking…A look back at Armand Volka…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMTuesday, May 15, 2012
At LA STAGE Talks’ latest event, a panel of theater-makers not only talked last night but also showed how it’s done: They collaborated in an initial discussion of designs for a hypotheti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:58PMThursday, May 10, 2012
James Blackman's South Bay CLO company moves its big musicals series to the Warner Grand in San Pedro...3-D Theatricals moves into Blackman's former Redondo Beach venue with extensions of it…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMThursday, May 3, 2012
The Kodak Theatre becomes the Dolby...The Blank has found a nine-year-old playwright...California International Theatre Festival is happening this month...Aldo Pisano discusses his role in S…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:00PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Site-specific theater in the Metro this weekend as the Expo Line opens...UCLA Live becomes CAP-UCLA, and theater returns to the programming mix...a Festival of New American Musicals without …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:00PMCyrano with a big nose -- been there, done that. In 2012 LA, Cyrano's problem is that the woman he loves doesn't understand the ASL movements of his hands. This is the idea behind Stephen Sa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:56PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
South Coast Repertory's literary manager Kelly L. Miller provides a preview of coming attractions at SCR's Pacific PlaywrightsFestival, which culminates next weekend with five staged reading…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:31PMThursday, April 19, 2012
New seasons at Geffen and Pasadena playhouses, with Lynn Nottage plays at both...New seasons for Laguna Playhouse and Musical Theatre Guild...a 20th anniversary production of Anna Deavere Sm…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMThursday, April 12, 2012
South Coast Repertory’s Jitney will hail a ride across town to the Pasadena Playhouse after Costa Mesa…Deborah Cox will join the new Jekyll & Hyde, which will go from La Mirada to a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PM 
