Monday, May 25, 2015
It ends in the city where it began.The national touring company of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera concludes its run, fittingly, on Halloween night at the Pantages Theat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]In its Broadway run two years ago, writer/director Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations garnered five Tony nominations and one trophy (Best Scenic Design for Derek McLane) and then closed after …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Gigi, the movie, swept the Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture. The script was adapted in 1973 for the stage, but what you may see this month by the Reprise Theatre Comapny at UCLA's Freu…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]A 55 degree afternoon in Studio City is balmy for Chicago transplant George Wendt. He steps out of his black four-door in a black T-shirt and black shorts. He never appears chilly as he reco…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Part Cherokee, Seminole and Muskogee Creek on her father's side, Carolyn Dunn is among a growing cadre of Native American playwrights. Her play The Frybread Queen opens Saturday in the Autry…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
David ("Proof") Auburn speaks about his "The Columnist" and its main character Joseph Alsop, as LA Theatre Works prepares for a radio theater recording of the play, starring John Vickery as …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:56PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2013
Furious Theatre returns to its longtime Carrie Hamilton home at Pasadena Playhouse with only one of its founders, Vonessa Martin, in "Gidion's Knot." Darin Anthony directs.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
No theatrical scenic designer is likely to attract a bigger audience this week in the Los Angeles area than award-winning John Iacovelli, whose work can be seen in productions at the Mark Ta…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Antaeus always uses two casts per production, so why not two co-directors? Armin Shimerman and Geoffrey Wade helm the company's The Crucible.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:07PM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
On the occasion of International Women's Day, a baker's dozen of women in LA theater comment on their hopes for LA theater in the coming year. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2013
"Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow"...Donald Freed plays on that famous phrase from Macbeth in the title of his new Tomorrow. And that makes one "tomorrow" for each of the companies collaborat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
Michael Michetti is moved to tears by moments in Frank Galati's adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which Michetti is directing for A Noise Within. He explains why. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
It's the beginning of the end of Andak Stage, the small NoHo company run by Dakin Matthews and Anne McNaughton. But first, Kitty Swink stars in a revival of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blue…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Now that Richard III's bones have been brought to light, casting doubt on his humped back and withered arm, will stage interpretations of him change? Several Shakespeare specialists in the L…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:40PM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2013
Steven Robman, who directed four plays at the Taper in the '80s and will return there next fall, is about to make his debut as an LA 99-seat theater director with Kathryn Graf's A Snake Can,…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2013
London's Cheek by Jowl company cuts the final lines from John Ford's 17th-century incest drama 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The company's associate director Owen Horsley, who's in charge of …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:01PM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
We hope it isn't too late for Santa to receive these not-so-traditional Christmas wish lists from a dozen of LA's small theater companies. Most of these groups' venues lack chimneys, but…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande, 19, appears in the title role of A Snow White Christmas, a panto at Pasadena Playhouse. So far her career appears charmed, except for those agonizing red-carp…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Playwright Donald Margulies and director Bart DeLorenzo finally tie the gift bow on a legacy from the late Gil Cates, as Christmas on Coney Island opens this week at Geffen Playhouse. REA…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Jane Carr and Nicholas Hormann, who play the Bennet parents in LA Theatre Works' Pride and Prejudice, have been seeing American's "nooks and crannies" on the show's tour, which has temporari…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Gigi Bermingham is directing her first Antaeus production -- You Can't Take It With You. In some ways, she says, the eccentric family inside the play is like a close-knit family of the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:51PM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
Unlike her male colleagues in The Full Monty, Shannon Warne won't have to take off all her clothes for her role in Third Street Theatre's revival. But she had to do so in Camelot at Pasadena…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:59PM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2012
Stephen Spinella, best known for his Angels in America roles, is now part of the US premiere of the Catalan-born play The Grönholm Method, at the Falcon. While director BT McNicholl is urgi…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
As Mark Troy prepares to open his new play Anxiety at the Odyssey, he discusses some of his own anxieties and his obsessions over one minutia or another. On opening night, take a look at his…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Jonathan Groff was Tony-nominated for Spring Awakening and an Obie winner for two Craig Lucas plays. But now he's an LA actor, too, working not only in TV's Glee and Boss but also in the Mar…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
Chance Theater, on the east side of Anaheim, tackles West Side Story with plans to make the audience feel more intimately rooted in gang turf and with borrowed LED lighting that promises to …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
After two award-winning collaborations in the past year, actress Anne Gee Byrd and director Cameron Watson aim for a trifecta as they approach The Savannah Disputation, at the Colony. Watson…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
A group of Native American playwrights speaks to the personal and the universal in offerings on display in free readings this weekend at the Autry. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Playwright Vanessa Claire Stewart and actor French Stewart reveal the softer side of Buster Keaton in Stoneface. It premieres Friday night at Sacred Fools Theater. READ MORE
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