Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The LA Stage Alliance launches its new LA STAGE Talks series on March 27 to coincide with World Theatre Day. Moderated by LA STAGE CEO Terence McFarland, the five free events seek to explore…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:21PMThe companies who won the most Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards Monday were Rogue Machine, the Odyssey Theatre/Evidence Room combination, Ebony Repertory Theatre and CTG. Highest v…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:01AMFriday, March 9, 2012
Happy Big 5-0, World Theatre Day. John Malkovich leads the chorus of well-wishers. Here also is information about some related events this weekend and later in March. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:52PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
John Malkovich will write a message for the 50th annual World Theatre Day, sponsored by Theatre Communications Group and the US Center of the International Theatre Institute. An essay contes…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMFriday, February 17, 2012
Beth Henley's 1964 Mississippi drama The Jacksonian world premiered this week at the Geffen Playhouse. Stars Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Glenne Headly, Bill Pullman and Bess Rous celebrate with …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMReprise Theatre Company is canceling the third show of the 2011-2012 season, The Apple Tree, in addition to its earlier cancellation of its second show The Baker's Wife, while the Reprise b…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:13PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
A Raisin in the Sun and Jerry Springer: The Opera each nabbed eight Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nominations -- more than those of any other productions. Center Theatre Group won a total…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:41PMMeet Me @Metro: Uncovering Los Angeles' Hidden Treasures (M3-III) will use theatrical artists to uncover history along the Metro Gold Line route next summer. Companies and individual theatri…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Now is the time for any theater companies who want to produce in LA County's Winter Partnership Program at [Inside] the Ford -- next winter, not this one -- to prepare your applications. The…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:25PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
The Los Angeles City Council voted in closed session this morning to evict the Latino Theater Company from the city-owned Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Los Angeles Downtown News is repor…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:46PMFriday, December 23, 2011
LA STAGE Times is taking a brief hiatus next week and will be back online January 3. Wishing all our readers a happy holiday and a joyous 2012! READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:38PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Director Heidi Helen Davis has died from breast cancer. She's probably best know for staging more than 20 Theatricum Botanicum productions since 1988, but she also staged the premiere of EM …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:08PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Shinsai: Theaters for Japan on March 11 will mark the anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake with short performances at American theaters, designed to benefit Japanese theater arti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:34PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
The Ovation Awards ceremony Monday offered laughs from French Stewart, Carolyn Hennesy and Sally Struthers, tears and counsel from Wren Brown, fond memories of Gil Cates from Randall Arney a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:15PMTroubadour Theater Company won more Ovations than any other company, its A Wither's Tale took more trophies than any other production, and two of its leaders -- Matt Walker and Beth Kennedy …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:14AMFriday, November 11, 2011
Frank Mancuso, Geffen Playhouse's board chairman, will temporarily become the playhouse's producing director -- a title that had been held by the late Gil Cates. A special executive sessio…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:24PMFriday, November 4, 2011
A public forum on the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, which would re-vitalize the downtown LA street and many of its historic theaters, is taking place at one of those landmark theaters, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:46PMThursday, November 3, 2011
LA stage veteran Carolyn Hennesy will host the Ovation Awards ceremony, stepping in for French Stewart, who had to withdraw because of a professional conflict. Also, here's a list of the pre…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:36PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
The Biller Family Foundation has opened a new source of private funding for smaller LA theater companies with its annual BEST awards. The first batch of grants has provided $47,500 to a tota…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:31PMGilbert Cates, the founder and producing director of the Geffen Playhouse, died Monday at the age of 77. During his tenure, Geffen productions earned 119 Ovation Award nominations and won 27…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:13PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Preparing for the Ovation Awards ceremony on Nov. 14, Ovation nominees gathered last Sunday at a reception at the Norris Center in Rolling Hills Estates. Two of the Ovation Honorary Awards w…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:44PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
If Sherlock Holmes were to give voice lessons, but then was discovered to be an immigrant from the third rock from the sun, you might get someone resembling French Stewart, who will host the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:43PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Engine29, another pop-up arts journalism web site, is preparing for a November burst of activity. But don't confuse it with last June's Engine28 website, which also arose out of USC's Annenb…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMMonday, October 10, 2011
Center Theatre Group turned the Kirk Douglas Theatre lobby turned into a Wild West shindig for opening night of The Rude Mechs musical I've Never Been So Happy. Attendees were offered cowboy…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:59PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Center Theatre Group has selected seven LA-based playwrights for its 2011-2012 Writers’ Workshop. They include Padraic Duffy, Larissa FastHorse, Sigrid Gilmer, Prince Gomolvilas, Jennifer…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:02PMMonday, September 19, 2011
The Reprise Theatre Company led the 2011 Ovation Award nominations with (17), followed by the Troubadour Theater Company (16), Center Theatre Group (12) and Demand Productions (11). Most n…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 10:46PMWatch tonight's 2011 Ovation Award nominees announcement live from the Falcon Theatre in Burbank on LASTAGETimes.com beginning at 7:00 pm. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:40PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
Center Theatre Group and the LA Stage Alliance hosted a reception at Corkbar in downtown LA to welcome South Coast Repertory’s new Artistic Director Marc Masterson to the Los Angeles the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:19PMFriday, September 9, 2011
A group of 20-30 area theatre leaders are meeting on 9/10/2011, for a Theatre Vision/Council Task Force Day, to create a draft of a vision and a council structure for the Greater LA Theatre …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:06PMThursday, September 8, 2011
South Coast Repertory has announced it is expanding its 2011-2012 Studio Series to include Los Angeles county theater companies. The series partners SCR with "eclectic and adventurous loca…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:12PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Eight free workshops for arts organizations considering applying to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Organizational Grant Program (OGP) will be held throughout LA county between…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PM 
