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
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Tim Dang infuses East West Players’ production of A Little Night Music, opening tonight, with a bit of Chinese culture and a lot of heart. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo collaborate yet again to bring East LA history to the stage, this time with Louie Perez of Los Lobos. Their play Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, focus…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Richard Chamberlain, playing a stern father in The Heiress at Pasadena Playhouse, remembers his own "repressive" and "terrifying" father, as well as his own sunnier life since he came out of…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 10:00PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Director Brian Kite focused on casting young for his new revival of Miss Saigon. He also discusses his role as La Mirada’s municipal theater maven – coming next season, Next to Normal. C…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Danielle Kennedy and Beth Kennedy, mother and daughter, discuss their separate specialties within the trenches of LA theater comedy. Danielle is about to open in Bart DeLorenzo’s staging o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:55PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Matthew Leavitt was once a neighbor of playwright Del Shores -- and the son of Shores' late producer. Now Leavitt is a playwright himself, and Shores is doing the producing -- of Leavitt's c…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
The saga of casting Cleopatra for A Noise Within's Antony and Cleopatra also involved two of LA's other classical companies. Former Antaeus artistic director Jeanie Hackett wanted a role t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
The new leaders of Antaeus, the classical theater company, include John Sloan, Rob Nagle and Bill Brochtrup. Discussing the changes at the company and its future prospects are Sloan and Nagl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
Kieren van den Blink, producing and starring in Bekah Brunstetter's Mine for her Little Beast Theatre at Elephant Lab, discusses the twists and turns and celebrity encounters as she "follows…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Bradley Whitford and Michael O'Keefe argue over art at lunch in Pasadena, while Roger Bart cracks jokes -- not far from what their characters do in Yasmina Reza's Art, at the Pasadena Playho…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:30PMThursday, January 19, 2012
Tony-winning actress Julie White wants to meet a guy who loves women, who isn't married, and who wouldn't inspire a sequel to the play Bad Dates --which her friend Theresa Rebeck wrote, base…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:43PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
Throughout the Pasadena Playhouse's recent bankruptcy, the Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse, an organization of volunteer workers, tenaciously kept the faith. They have done so since 1979, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:44PMThursday, December 8, 2011
The house managers of LA theaters have many roles to play and many stories to tell. They encounter texters, chicken eaters, sing-along specialists, surreptitious pets, fountain splashers, fa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:45PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Producers Dan Friedman and Jessica Hanna discuss what happened behind the scenes at Monday's Ovation Awards ceremony. Then the two young siblings, David and Rachael Kartsonis, who streamed t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:37PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
The fifth of 17 siblings, Rochelle Duffy coaxed stories out of most of them, ultimately focusing on her conversations with one of her brothers when he was incarcerated. This material comes t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Since its initial appearance at the small Hudson Theatre, Roger Bean's Life Could Be a Dream has graduated to bigger theaters for each of the last two years. Now it's at La Mirada Theatre. B…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:32PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Alan Alda, Gordon Davidson, Michael Ritchie, Susan Loewenberg and Sheldon Epps recall the warmth and versatility of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse producing director who died Monday. READ M…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:24PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
A Noise Within finally moves into its long-awaited new home in east Pasadena, with a Twelfth Night opening Saturday. Artistic directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott show off the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:34PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Noel Coward didn't spend all his time examining the foibles of the witty rich. In Peace in Our Time, he also imagined what might have happened in England if it had been taken over by the Naz…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:30PMMonday, October 17, 2011
Julian Sands moves from being the one performer in a Pinter evening to directing the one performer, Neil Dickson, in Stephen Wyatt's The Standard Bearer. Inspired by the Falklands War, the p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:43PMMonday, October 3, 2011
The Shakespeare authorship dispute comes to a head as the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles bestows its Crystal Quill Awards on three adherents of different positions in the debate -- film…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMFriday, September 30, 2011
The theme for this year AxS Festival, a project by the Pasadena Arts Council in conjunction with the city's scientific institutions, is "Fire and Water." In one of the shows, a site-specific…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:17PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Best known to America as Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart began her career on the stage. As she prepares to perform the role of Nora in A Doll House for LA Theatre Works, she recalls some of h…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:14PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Michelle Duffy isn't just for musicals. The Ovation winner for Can Can is co-starring in Steven Dietz's non-musical Shooting Star at the Colony Theatre. What's next -- a reality TV show? REA…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:59PMFriday, September 2, 2011
Ghost Road Company's Ronnie Clark updates French philosopher Albert Camus' Le Malentendu or The Misunderstanding via a creative collaboration between composer David O, sound designer Cricket…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:01PMMonday, August 22, 2011
A month and a half in as Center Theatre Group’s new managing director, Edward Rada could not be happier. “For me this goes back to being eight years old and going to the Pasadena Playhou…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:34PMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Zoe Perry is neither French nor Irish. Yet she successfully took on the accent and the brogue this past year, performing as a French teenager in Lillian Hellman’s Autumn Garden with the A…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:22PMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Cabrillo Musc Theatre occupies a venue that Cabrillo artistic director Lewis Wilkenfeld describes as the largest theatrical house between Los Angeles and San Francisco -- the 1,800-seat Kavl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:02PMMonday, July 18, 2011
A chance meeting a few years ago between Broad Stage director Dale Franzen and David Babani, her counterpart at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory [pronounced men-YAY], has culminated in th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Kathleen Freeman's 1945 Code of Ethics for stage actors, the subject of an article on LA stage Times in 2009, has been raising additional comment in the blogosphere recently. Meanwhile, he…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:30PM 
