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Thursday, April 12, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

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
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Another Mamet – Clara – Writes Plays (and Acts in Them), Directed by Paul Sand by Julio Martinez

Clara Mamet, daughter of David, recently dropped out of Santa Monica High School, and she's currently advancing her career by appearing in a Ruskin Group Theatre production of a short play s…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:45PM
Friday, April 6, 2012

Elizabeth Sarnoff Does a Slow Dance in Midtown by Julio Martinez

Elizabeth Sarnoff co-created a TV series last year. But before it went on the air in January, she left the series and returned to the play that launched her career as a writer -- Slow Dance…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:49PM
Thursday, April 5, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

A director for November, a cast for Los Otros...A season for Rogue Machine...A month for opera...Long Beach Opera to bring Ainadamar to West Coast...Evangeline to feature Los Lobos music...N…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Thursday, March 29, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Latino Museum exits LATC in a resolution of the museum's dispute with Latino Theater...Sideways the play is on its way...Rubicon Theatre's new season will feature a re-conceived Pal Joey sta…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Friday, March 23, 2012

Robert Patrick’s Off-Off Life, From Roswell to LA by Julio Martinez

Robert Patrick, the off-off-Broadway pioneer and author of Kennedy's Children, has lived a life on the edge. As he prepares to be honored by the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights next Tues…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:24PM
Thursday, March 22, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Musical Theatre West hosts a memorial service and starts a scholarship fund in honor of frequent leading man John Bisom, who apparently took his own life last weekend...A Mamet and a Quaid j…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:28PM
Friday, March 16, 2012

Pearce and Parrish in a Small-Scale Spring Awakening by Julio Martinez

Spring Awakening, the musical, finally reaches one of LA's smaller theaters, where director Kate Sullivan hopes that an audience will be awakened to more of the details, while paying less. A…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PM
Thursday, March 15, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

More details on LA Theatre Works' move to KPFK...Latino Theater keeps planning for an LATC spring despite an eviction notice from the city of LA...Steven Fales brings his Mormon Boy trilogy …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:56PM
Thursday, March 8, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

LA premieres of Catch Me If You Can and Priscilla Queen of the Desert will be among the Broadway LA offerings...Theatricum announces season...Another show with Barbara Bain planned...Nomi Ly…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

David Kurs — a New Leader for Deaf West by Julio Martinez

His Riverside childhood was rich in deaf culture. He went from Gallaudet to Hollywood and North Hollywood. Now, Deaf West's new artistic director David Kurs is bent on expanding the comp…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:08PM
Thursday, March 1, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Re-Animator the Musical is re-animating...Elephant Theatre suspends production activity for the rest of 2012 while strengthening the management and board...Deaf West's new artistic director …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Friday, February 24, 2012

Byrnes and Kearns Reveal The Yellow House Tale by Julio Martinez

Now it can be told --  the story of an incident from veteran raconteur Burke Byrnes' youth in the '50s that he felt he couldn't tell in public as long as his father was alive. His father di…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:58PM
Thursday, February 23, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Sleepless in Seattle is taking a nap and won't be available for its previously scheduled Pasadena Playhouse gig...Fountain and Deaf West theaters collaborate on a new version of Cyrano...Amy…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PM
Thursday, February 16, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Zina Bethune killed by hit-run driver...A season of premieres at the Colony, plus details on seasons at LA Opera and Musical Theatre West...KPFK to air LATW radio plays...Richard Chamberlain…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:09PM
Thursday, February 9, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Stephen Eich discusses his experiences at Pasadena Playhouse, where's he about to exit his job as executive director, and his hopes for the playhouse and his own career...Wililam Shatner and…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:43PM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Jane Lanier Fell Into a Burning Ring of Fire by Julio Martinez

Jane Lanier is no longer dancing, but she's choreographing and directing. Currently she's re-creating movement for non-dancers in Jason Edwards' staging of the Johnny Cash bio-musical Ring o…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Thursday, February 2, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The Hollywood Fringe Festival accepts applications and moves Fringe Central to the Open Fist...LA Opera news...Conan O'Brien headlines a Geffen fund-raiser...stage photographer and sometime …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PM
Thursday, January 26, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Latino Theater Company announces a spring season at LATC despite a City Council vote to evict the company...CTG offers sections of Tweet Seats for Twitter users at two performances tonight..…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PM
Thursday, January 19, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Latino Theater Company evicted from LATC...LA Opera focuses on outreach...CTG's Clybourne Park moving to Broadway, Mary Poppins returning to LA...The 1941 musical Let's Face It! faces a brie…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:25PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Vandal of Cirque’s Ovo Creates Costumes That Crawl by Julio Martinez

Ovo costume designer Liz Vandal consulted her own feelings about spiders in order to begin the designs for Cirque du Soleil's touring extravaganza, which focuses on insects and arachnids. A …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:04PM
Thursday, January 12, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Victoria Clark will take over Bernadette Peters' role in the Follies import...Dany Margolies is laid off at Back Stage...Jordan Monsell of the returning Pulp Shakespeare speaks...From Hazard…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM
Friday, January 6, 2012

Raymond J. Barry Stays Awake by Julio Martinez

Raymond J. Barry's Awake in a World That Encourages Sleep attempts to explore economic inequity, war, power and other global themes through a three-character one-act. Barry, who also directs…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:09PM
Thursday, January 5, 2012

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Jane Kaczmarek will start in the Geffen's Good People, directed by Matt Shakman...Hershey Felder steps behind the scenes of Mona Golabek's show...January is a big month for free readings ser…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:59PM
Thursday, December 22, 2011

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

A Noise Within's Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott receive A.C.T. honors while Bess Rous joins cast of The Jacksonian at the Geffen.  A new foursome of "adults behaving badly"…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:30PM
Thursday, December 15, 2011

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

George Clooney to hit the boards...for one night. South Bay CLO introduces a new series at El Segundo Playhouse,while still searching for a hoe for it larger musicals series. Sloane Robinson…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:21PM
Thursday, December 8, 2011

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

The Ahmanson gets Follies but Book of Mormon goes to Hollywood's Pantages. Ojai not ready for full Equity theater. Nerve and Expecting to Fly debut in January while Peter Gallagher morphs in…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:31PM
Thursday, December 1, 2011

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Jose Fructuoso is convicted of murdering Fountain Theatre's Ben Bradley. Two recently opened shows suspend performances but plan to return. Rubicon Theatre announces most of its 2012 program…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

LA STAGE INSIDER by Julio Martinez

Raymond J. Barry writes, acts and directs at Electric Lodge while Gigi Bermingham displays her chanteuse talents at Boston Court.  Michael Kearns spotlights World AIDS day; Tracy Letts and …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:04PM
Friday, November 18, 2011

A Playground at the School of Hard Knocks by Julio Martinez

Michael Leoni's The Playground -- A Street Rock Musical was produced at several LA venues from 2004 to 2007, telling stories based on life in the New York streets. Now it's back, in a revise…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:04PM
Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Playground Returns to the Hudson by Julio Martinez

When The Playground – A Street Rock Musical opens at the MET Theatre in Hollywood on November 18, it will be another step in an on-going odyssey writer/director Michael Leoni began in …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:46PM

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