Thursday, November 17, 2011
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 11:46PMComing soon at the Ahmanson -- Fela! in place of Funny Girl. Antaeus' new troika of artistic directors announce a three-play season. LATW tours China. Holiday happenings and post-holiday p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:50PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Will Metro-adjacent theaters get a boost from the increased frequency of evening trains? Wicked returns again to the Pantages, while the Ahmanson loses Funny Girl. Bets Malone cannot escape …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:27PMFriday, November 4, 2011
Bernardo Bernardo, who performed in the 2007 LA premiere of The Romance of Magno Rubio in 2007, returns to Lonnie Carter's play by directing it in two languages, English and Tagalog, at [Ins…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:44PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Ed Asner revives FDR for Theatricum Benefit and Tanya Saracho's El Nogalar premieres at Fountain Theatre. Will Manus's Bridge moves to the Complex; Alfred Molina and David Krumholtz due…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:36PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Music Theatre International (MRI) brings tuners to your iPhone and Salome Jens portrays Hadassah co-founder Henrietta Szold. Street rock tuner, The Playground, returns to LA while Idol …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:09PMThursday, October 20, 2011
A Christmas Story plus West Side Story equals the Troubies in A Christmas Westside Story. Jerker returns to Hollywood. "Good morning, Long Beach," as Musical Theatre West prepares Hairspray.…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:39PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Matrix Theatre producer Joe Stern hopes his revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons will attract multi-racial, multi-ethnic audiences, thanks to its mixture of white, black, Asian and Latino …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:19PMThursday, October 13, 2011
The Fountain's Bakersfield Mist moves to an Actors' Equity contract. The Geffen Playhouse opens its kids' Scene Season. Lauri Fraser loves a good story at her salon series in Culver City. Pl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:18PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Virginia Grise started writing in between the classes she taught at a Texas middle school. Then she decided to concentrate on the writing in a move to LA. In her blu, at Company of Angels, c…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:32PMThursday, October 6, 2011
LA Theatre Center and Women In Theatre give out awards while Rogue Machine premieres Daisy Foote’s Bhutan. Both Pasadena Playhouse and A Noise Within court Pasadena patrons. TV sta…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:42PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Voice Lessons invades the Valley. Life Could Be a Dream in La Mirada. Plays by Juan Mayorga and Miguel Pinero are on their way. Michael Donovan wins casting kudos. Penny Safranek, who used t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:56PMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Brian Kerwin and Leslie Hicks consider their roles as a middle-aged blogger and a luddite whose marriage may not survive the latest affront to the man's peace of mind in Stephen Metcalfe's T…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:42PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Multi-ethnic All My Sons staged at the Matrix while Mary Wilson channels Lena Horne at Musicians Institute. Cynthia Adam Prochaska recalls Doing Jason Manly at Writers Junction and Anto…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:06PMThursday, September 15, 2011
[Inside] the Ford hosts three new stage works while El Portal Theatre unveils a more contempo Snow White. Albie Selznick does his magic at Santa Monica Playhouse while comics Howard Storm…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:26PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
Marriages hit a rough spot in a supposedly tranquil weekend in the country in Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior, opening Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum. Director Doug Hughes and Rebeck analyze …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThursday, September 8, 2011
Alfred Molina turns Red for 2012 MTF season. Anne Archer to morph into Jane Fonda whileBrian Frazer surveys all his ills at Theatre Asylum. Sally Kellerman does a trush turn at VItello's…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:47PMThursday, September 1, 2011
South Bay's Civic Light Opera ousted by City of Redondo Beach while LA Theatre Center's The Vault probes a Downtown LA murder. Solo artist Antonio Sacre weaves his stories at Theatre Asyl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:08PMThursday, August 25, 2011
INSIDER spotlights Firehouse, the waiver play that is going global over the Internet while Christine O'Donnell goes non-political LA Women's Theatre Project event. International City The…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:34PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
No matter how much hurt a human being feels from disappointment in love, can this tangible pain be quantified scientifically? Can love be considered a science that can be studied and proven …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:50PMThursday, August 18, 2011
City Garage premieres new work by Charles L. Mee, while Levi Kreis croons an intimate concert to benefit Rubicon Theatre. Celebrity Autobiography offers its Music Edition at GRAMMY Theatre…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThursday, August 11, 2011
Roger Guenveur Smith brings baseball legends to the stage at LATC while Mike Burstyn morphs into Al Jolson at El Portal. Melora Marshall goes even further with Richard III and INSIDER Hi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:33PMThursday, August 4, 2011
From City Garage's new residence, to Natasha Middleton making her Ford Ampitheatre debut, and the world premier of Life on This Couch it's all here in this week's LA Stage Insider! READ MO…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:01PMTuesday, August 2, 2011
The talk frequently turns to Iraq when amng the regular diners at the counter of an LA restaurant during the deadliest years of the Iraq war, in Chuck Faerber's Counter Men, at the Whitefire…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:53PMThursday, July 28, 2011
Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble walks away from the Powerhouse while Luke Yankee returns to Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Saturday Night Live diva Ana Gasteyer does a turn at Catalina'…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:42PMThursday, July 21, 2011
INSIDER spotlights International Theatre Festival invasion of LA, Ventura and Calabasas, the premiere of Justin Tanner's 22nd play, Day Drinkers, the cabaret showcase of Brett Rybeck, the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:33PMThursday, July 14, 2011
A Noise Within announces the first season in its new and bigger Pasadena theater, and Center Theatre Group will first host Ebony Rep's A Raisin in the Sun at the Douglas and then produce the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:22PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
So it seems these two MFA grads from UCLA and a transplant from Franklin, Massachusetts become acquainted at the Actors' Gang and decide to put on a play, actually four plays. Along the wa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:35PMFriday, July 8, 2011
One week from opening night, Denise Crosby and Jamie Rose are taking a brief respite from a demanding rehearsal schedule for the premiere of the two-person comedy, Revisiting Wildfire, by pr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:19PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Ed Harris, Amy Madigan headline premiere of Beth Henley play at Geffen, Celebrity Autobiography channels the tell-alls, La Mirada and Actors Co-op announce seasons, while Michelle Danner he…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:49PMThursday, June 30, 2011
Controversial Jerry Springer: The Opera not entirely welcome in OC, while theater travels the rails inMeet Me@Metro II. Long-running New Eyes moves to the Odyssey as Hamlet out ho…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:27PM 
