Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The New York Times: Actress Leslie Uggams is doing in New York what often happens in Los Angeles: opting for a well-paying gig, a recurring roll on television, over a theater roll.
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SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:29PMMonday, December 14, 2015
LA Times: Charles McNulty reflects on the theater highlights of 2015. Fun Home and Hamilton: These musicals, both of which began at the Public Theater, have brought new currency to an art …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:43PMKeeping the lights (and their clothes) on in a non-profit theatre isn’t always easy as Antaeus Theatre Company proves in their latest video.
The post Antaeus: “Turn Off The Dark!R…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:43PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
The New York Times interviewed actors Viola David and Edie Falco: New York Times: You’d rather be struggling still? Viola Davis: I look back on those early days in the theater like the beg…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:13AMFriday, December 11, 2015
American Theatre: The Theatre @Boston Court is profiled in this month’s print issue. Like all intimate theaters in Los Angeles, its future will be heavily determined by its respons…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:50AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
In a filmed on-site interview at the Old Town Ale House, Shannon and Fitzgerald talk about the history behind A Red Orchid, the challenges of celebrity and why Chicago storefront theater, …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:46PMTheatre Communications Group, the publisher of American Theatre, has taken an official position on color-conscious casting. You can co-sign this letter by going to their web form. December…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:46PMMonday, November 30, 2015
American Theatre: Incoming LA STAGE Alliance Executive Director, Steven Leigh Morris, gives an extended interview on the future of Los Angeles theater and his ideas on how to get it there.…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:48PMSaturday, November 28, 2015
Stage Raw: The third and final in a series of recent Stage Raw symposia was held Monday. It focused on the hot topic of diversity: During the post-symposium questions, a discussion erupted…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:46PMThursday, November 26, 2015
From Theatre Banshee’s Facebook page: It is with heavy hearts that we post the sad news that The Banshee will be closing it’s doors Dec. 1. This fall we were hit with a sudden an…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:31AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakenings continues to gain national attention with their cast performance of “Touch Me” on Late Night with Seth Meyers, November 23, 2015. Ma…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:48PMCenter Theatre Group Press Release: After reviewing over 230 play submissions, Center Theatre Group announced today that 10 finalists have been chosen for the first annual Humanitas/CTG Play…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:48PMFriday, November 20, 2015
LA Times Theater Critic, Charles McNulty, writes of the current revolution in American play writing: This fall season has provided Los Angeles theatergoers the opportunity to become better a…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:03PMThursday, November 19, 2015
Bitter Lemons: Geoff Hoff, founder of LA Theater Review and a pioneer in getting Los Angeles theater onto the Internet, died on November 18, 2015. He was 60 years old. David Jette, w…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:06PMDramatists Guild of America President, Doug Wright, has officially weighed in on the controversy surrounding playwright Lloyd Suh’s decision to prevent Clarion University from producin…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:09AMSUBSTITUTE MOTION BY SUPERVISORS HILDA L. SOLIS AND MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS NOVEMBER 10, 2015 Improving Leadership, Work Force, Programming and Audience Diversity in Los Angeles County Cultural I…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:09AMAs part of the celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the cast of Deaf West’s 99-seat-to-Broadway production of Spring Awakening was invited to perform at the White Hous…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:09AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
The Guardian: Theatre needs our love! On Wednesday 18 November, theatres, amateur groups, arts companies and audiences from across the UK and beyond will take part in the second #LoveThe…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:14AMSunday, November 15, 2015
Broadway World: It’s been an extraordinary journey for Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening. First produced in a 99 seat theater, it was then remounted in the lar…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:06PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Kenneth Branagh’s Theater Company is simulcasting their London production of The Winter’s Tale on Thanksgiving, November 26. The play stars Branagh and Judi Dench. Movie th…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:55PMAmerican Theatre: “I was less interested in just putting theatre on TV, but I am very interested in not-for-profit, small regional theaters, and I also saw that they were really struggli…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:38PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
The New York Times: “As a closeted teenager and then as an out adult, [Mark] Gerrard had defined himself by his difference. “I sort of come from the generation where my gayness, at…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:24AMMonday, November 9, 2015
The 2015 Ovation Awards will be held on Monday, November 9, 2015 in the Ahmanson Theatre. The winners in each category are italicized and in red. The evening’s hosts are Vanessa an…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:52AMSunday, November 8, 2015
Howlround: “Camus died in a car accident in January 1960, eleven months before Theatre Arts published his essay Why I Work in the Theater… The essay reads much like his philoso…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:47PMPlaybill: “[Director Phyllida] Lloyd was inspired to direct an all-female production in reaction to the fact that for every job available to a woman in the theatre, there were two avai…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 09:47PMFriday, November 6, 2015
This Week in Shakespeare is the brainchild of bicoastal actors Liza de Weerd and Brian Weiss. Beginning in April of 2014, the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth, the pair would pe…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 03:06PM@ This Stage – Less than 24 hours after the announcement that Steven Leigh Morris, the doyenne of Los Angeles critics, had been named as the new Executive Director of LA STAGE Alliance…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:56AMThursday, November 5, 2015
The New York Review of Books: A thorough review of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare’s writing of King Lear in the context of the artist…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:26AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
The Guardian: The Globe Theatre aimed to have its touring production of Hamlet visit every country in the world to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, and the 400th…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 08:24PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Playbill: President Obama returned to Broadway to see Hamilton on Tuesday. Being on a fund-raiser stage gave the President an opportunity for a little political stand-up: “Have you n…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:52PM“Theatre isn’t just about us. It’s about serving the community. We are here to serve.” ~John Sloan The room is quiet. Empty. Just myself and Co-Artistic Directors…
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