Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Cornerstone Theater's Food Cycle continues with "Love on San Pedro," by James McManus, staged by Shishir Kurup. Citizens of Skid Row join the Cornerstone pros to examine their community.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Thea Sharrock has brought Neil Simon's "Sunshine Boys" from London to LA, with Danny DeVito and with DeVito's former "Taxi" colleague replacing the late Richard Griffiths. They're listening.…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:52PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
School lunches, the people who prepare them and the students who eat them are the subjects of Lunch Lady Courage -- loosely inspired by Brecht's Mother Courage, says playwright Peter Howard.…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, February 22, 2013
Andrew Kuchlewska's Complete examines the use of language in the self-help community via two linguists who participate in a seminar. Jennifer Chambers, who directs the production at the Matr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
In part 2 of our examination of local box offices, we look at some of those in LA's small theaters -- Theatre of NOTE, Antaeus, EST/LA, Sacred Fools, Rogue Machine, Fountain and Boston Court…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Director Bart DeLorenzo's "Tarentino period" has ended, and he's on to the happy ending of Cymbeline at A Noise Within, where Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and actor Joel Swetow join in the discus…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
The box offices at some of LA's bigger theaters are beehives of activity. In interviews with box office employees at the Geffen Playhouse, A Noise Within, Pasadena Playhouse and Center Theat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:45PMMonday, July 30, 2012
The Psychic Life of Savages, a 1995 dark comedy from Amy Freed, was inspired by several well-known, troubled poets in the late '50s and early '60s. Angie Scott and Nate Edelman discuss their…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:24PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Cornerstone Theater's Café Vida was inspired by the former gang members who re-enter productive society via jobs at downtown LA's Homegirl Café. Lisa Loomer was hired to write the play, wh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:40PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Hershey Felder is known for his solo shows about composers. But in his new Lincoln, he is the composer, and he has eliminated his usual piano in favor of an orchestra. He plays the doctor wh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Beth Henley's new The Jacksonian opens tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. The three women in the cast -- Amy Madigan, Glenne Headly and Bess Rous -- gather to discuss the evil that permeates t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
Theater artists who use first-person testimony and historical artifacts was the topic of a panel on Day 3 of the Association for Jewish Theatre conference, which met at USC on Tuesday. The…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:55PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
The Music Center employs a corps of 300 paid ushers. They are trained to work at all four of the Music Center venues -- which host more than 1000 performances a year, plus plenty of special …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Olympia Dukakis and Marco Barricelli are appearing in the only two roles in Morris Panych's Vigil at the Mark Taper Forum. Barricelli talks during most of the play, and Dukakis mostly listen…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:37PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Cornerstone Theater's next big cycle will include nine plays on hunger and food-related subjects over the next five years. But first, the public is invited to two weeks of appetizers under t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:41PM 
