39 stories by "A.r. Cassell"
As a young man, Stefan Marks was struck speechless by a young woman he encountered, but he did nothing about it -- until he wrote Hello, which tells his imaginary story of what might have be…
Luca Ellis didn't move to LA with a plan to make it big as a crooner. But as he listened to more and more Sinatra recordings, he realized that he's got Sinatra under his skin and in his voic…
The Rude Mechs, that Texas-based group of collaborating theater artists, go West to the Kirk Douglas Theatre once again, following in the wake of their Method Gun. This time, they're opening…
Kristina Poe's Love Sick emphasizes the "sick" as much as the "love." The playwright and director David Fofi discuss the latest production from Elephant Theatre. READ MORE
Reprise's revival of Kiss Me Kate was amply kissed by Ovation voters. They gave it 14 nominations -- the most for any single show in this year's contest. The Reprise team of Jason Alexander …
Cabaret may not be as "under-produced" as many of Reprise's productions. But director Marcia Milgrom Dodge believes she has come up with some new ways of interpreting this dark and distu…
Gilles Marini, a French-born actor with modeling, movie and TV credits, will appear in his first play, Melissa James Gibson's This, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. But he's accustomed to tackli…
Three highly-trained American Special Forces soldiers return home from the war zone. Their newly-promoted leader"tormented by symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), issues of rac…
For playwright Jennifer Haley, the concept of identity, much like the theater, is a construct of both deeply personal and communal elements. Haley puts her theories of identity under the m…
Gritty, provocative new works find a home at Elephant Theatre Company, the West Coast's answer to (and recent partner with) Off-Broadway's LAByrinth Theater Company. As Elephant dives into i…
Mother's Day is fast-approaching and the timing could not be more appropriate for the world premiere of performing artist John Fleck's latest solo piece Mad Women which he has created, wri…
An old familiar feeling is in the air. In theaters across the country, nostalgia for the big band days of the 1930s and '40s seems to be cropping up. The Colony Theatre's revival of The Al…
With a catalogue of cinematic work that has garnered three Oscars (21 nominations), a BAFTA and a Cesar Award, it's safe to say film producer Jonathan Sanger has a discerning eye for a quali…
fter making its debut Off-Broadway in 1995, Horton Foote's The Young Man from Atlanta will finally have its Los Angeles premiere on March 11. Presented by the Production Company and staged b…
