Thursday, 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 03:30PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Nothing about Charles Dillingham’s decision to leave Center Theatre Group after 20 years was planned, nor is it retirement. “I don’t use the ‘R’ word,” says Dillingham, dressed …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:41PMWednesday, June 1, 2011
Ellen Geer, turning 70, is eyeing a younger generation for possible successors to her role as artistic director of Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. Meanwhile, the company's upcoming seaso…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:05PMWednesday, May 18, 2011
One of theater’s triple threats – actor, singer, musician Michael Paternostro – sums up approaching his musical direction of Reprise’s Kiss Me, Kate like this: “You’re workin…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:32PMWednesday, May 4, 2011
When Lee Melville smiles, his eyes beat him to it. The Editor-in-Chief of this publication, LA STAGE Times, smiles frequently as he reminisces over his 50-year career in theater: actor, sta…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMWednesday, April 20, 2011
For a playwright who has enjoyed some 70 productions of his 51 or 52 plays – he’s lost count – Tom Jacobson can take a moment to smile as two of his works go up over the same weeke…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:05PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage director Dale Franzen is about to enter her fourth year leading the 499-seat main theater and the more intimate 99-seat companion, The Edye Second Space, at …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:53PMThursday, April 14, 2011
Ask established actors when they got their first break, and many may say it came when they were children. They devised a skit and performed in the living room for their family, anxious for t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:02PMThursday, April 7, 2011
For three weeks in 1966, Allan Miller left New York to teach actors in Ireland. The invitation came from a former student, Deirdre O’Connell, who had opened the Focus Theatre in Dublin…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:20PMFriday, April 1, 2011
In 1981, years before his roles in Top Gun, Bull Durham and The Shawshank Redemption, actor Tim Robbins and fellow actors from UCLA founded an experimental theater group in Los Angeles, t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:20PMFriday, March 18, 2011
It’s a musical Nick Blaemire [pronounced BLAY-mire] began writing in 2003 as a freshman at the University of Michigan where he was studying musical theater performance. “It’s about t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:40PMWednesday, March 16, 2011
No one can claim Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a comedy, so it is not the fare classically trained actor Stacy Keach would lean toward for relief. “I love comedy,” Keach sa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:23AMThursday, March 10, 2011
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 A…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:24PMThursday, March 3, 2011
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 rec…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:07PMWednesday, February 16, 2011
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 Fre…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:52AMThursday, February 10, 2011
Producer TJ Dawson has been busy. He developed 3-D Theatricals production company with his family, launched its first season last year at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, learned his first seas…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:36PMTuesday, February 8, 2011
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. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:25PMTuesday, February 1, 2011
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 afte…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:24PMWednesday, January 26, 2011
When Circle X artistic director Tim Wright was beginning his MFA program at Montclair State University in New Jersey in 1993, Gates McFadden was about to end her seven-year role as Dr. Bever…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:24PMTuesday, January 18, 2011
The white big top began to rise weeks ago – you come upon it suddenly if you rattle through Burbank on Metrolink – as Normand Latourelle once again prepares to open his horse-dominant sh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:40PMTuesday, January 11, 2011
Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, a comedy of manners, is replete with hypocrisy, supposed infidelity, mistaken identities and eavesdropping. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:03PMWednesday, December 15, 2010
Actor/comedian Leslie Jordan carries his not quite five-foot frame and familiar, airy Tennessean voice into the Renberg Theatre at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center this week. He cons…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:46PMThursday, December 9, 2010
Ten years after opening The Graduate on London’s West End, Kathleen Turner and Matthew Rhys have brought the show, minus the near-scandalous nudity, to LA Theatre Works this week. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:53PMTuesday, November 30, 2010
As actors and directors prepare to work together for the first time, it’s natural for a cast member to wonder, “Will this director collaborate with me or will I be told ‘It’s my way …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:58PMTuesday, November 23, 2010
Several theatres within southern California have teaching arms that train those who want to act and give them stages on which to spotlight their talent. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:37PM 
