"The immigrant tries to take a new identity and get rid of the old one. That doesn’t really work. In order to be able to go further, I think we have to face and confront our past. Sometime…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 04:00PMIn Southern California the Phantom Projects Theatre Group has a long history of touring schools with important issue-driven productions. Over the past decade Phantom has developed a solid re…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMWhat�s a magic mirror to do? Once every century, the mirror is responsible for choosing which �hero�s quest� is to become the next classic fairy tale. A perfect handsome prince, Cope…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMOf the professionals who have turned Los Angeles small theater into a living laboratory of artistic and even commercial success, few have had the impact of uber-publicist and award-winning p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMTerrence McNally is the subject of a four-day fundraiser for Skylight Theatre, featuring parties, programs, panels, co-produced by Sheryl Kaller, the director of McNally's next play.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PMLA circus artist and impresario Stefan Haves has created Cirque-a-Palooza, a circus/variety festival for the Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:02PMThe LA-born Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is now at Chance Theater in Anaheim, where director Kari Hayter is balancing the Jackson the democrat with Jackson the racist.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:50PMTerry Johnson directed End of the Rainbow, which is now literally about Judy Garland, in contrast to an earlier incarnation. It opens this week at the Ahmanson. Johnson also discusses some o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMNoel Coward's 1925 Fallen Angels was initially scheduled to open at the Pasadena Playhouse three years ago, but it became the first show to fall victim to the playhouse's temporary bankrup…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:56PMCAP UCLA imports Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, which depicts Ganesh trying to re-claim the use of the swastika from the Nazis, to the Freud. It's a "devised" work by Back to Back Theatre Co…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:10PMThe house lights remain on throughout Shakespeare's Globe's Hamlet, a spare and youthful version, currently on a US tour that reaches Santa Monica's Broad Stage Thursday. The tour's director…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMPrivate Lives hasn't remained a private pleasure -- after eight decades, it's consistently revived. Joseph Fuqua and Julia Granata discuss why. They play its leading lovers and its primary…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:54PMA decade after Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner lent their names to the cultural arts program at LA Gay & Lesbian Center, the program's director Jon Imparato looks back and also forward -- …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PMDirector Andrew Traister's duties for Antaeus' The Seagull involve picking the right translation, rehearsing two different casts in a small space, and contemplating how Sorin should snore. H…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMFrom dust to dust, from chalk to chalk -- Chalk Repertory returns to the Hollywood cemetery where it acquired its name and staged its first production, this time with the West Coast premiere…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMJessica Kubzansky's staging of The 39 Steps at La Mirada Theatre offers a chance to see Matt Walker outside his usual Troubies format. Switching among 15 different characters and accents, he…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMA half-dozen LA stage managers discuss the stable temperament required for their job. Then they recall a few incidents in which their temperaments were sorely tried by missing actors, abusiv…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PMRoger Q. Mason draws on magical realism and his interracial family's "hidden histories " in 1870s Texas in his new play Onion Creek, directed by June Carryl. It's produced by Padua Playwrigh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00AMPat Kinevane's solo, Forgotten, examines four octogenarians who live in what they consider "geriatric asylums." Yet the writer/performer explains that his work isn't restricted to text-heavy…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PMJim J. Bullock auditioned to replace Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Broadway's Hairspray, but he wasn't ready for it yet. After earning his stripes in several smaller roles in the show…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:08PMJenny Sullivan, the only "Artistic Associate" at Ventura's Rubicon Theatre, has that title because of her contributions over the theater's 14 years, primarily as a director. Her staging of T…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:15PMDirector Steven Sabel is opening a small black box in downtown LA, called Archway Studio/Theatre, as a supplement to his work running the Redlands Shakespeare Festival in a giant-size amphit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:28PMBritish director Richard Seyd returns to La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts to helm season opener Noises Off, a play he considers "the most successful farce ever written," after havin…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:21PMMatthew McCray and Son of Semele found a way to examine 9/11 from a West Coast perspective by asking for some revisions of Stephanie Fleischmann' s What the Moon Saw, or "I Only Appear to Be…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:03PMWrestling was Diaz’ first entree into the world of theatrics. He grew up a half hour from Manhattan and was frequently taken to see wrestling live at Madison Square Gardens, where he soo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMPlaywright Steve Yockey and director Abigail Deser discuss the art of their recent collaboration on the premiere of his Heavier Than..., a play based on the Theseus and the Minotaur myth, op…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:40PMIn conversation, playwright and screenwriter Gary Lennon speaks softly and philosophically, with tremendous insight into the human condition. He speaks of a spiritual growth and a journey to…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:02PMOver the past decade, Geffen Playhouse artistic director Randall Arney hasn't tried to create an LA version of his Chicago alma mater, Steppenwolf Theatre, at the Geffen. But his latest Geff…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:10AMEast West Players has kept its thematic promise of “Shake It Up” this season and celebrates with the grand finale of an original concept musical combining the talents of youthful urban…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:01PMThe premiere of Lynn Manning’s The Unrequited (Between Two Worlds) marks the 15th anniversary of the extraordinary Watts Village Theater Company, and Cornerstone Theater, which was the pa…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:00PMThe old man and old woman, who have lived together seemingly forever, prepare for the onslaught of visitors they have invited to hear the old man’s ultimate discovery. Empty chairs appear …
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