53 stories by "Cynthia Citron"
"Every day I walk in here I feel so lucky!” Annie Hendy, bubbling over, sits in the lobby of the Falcon Theatre in Burbank to talk about her personal odyssey as she presents it in her …
Fascinated by the life and career of celebrated pianist Clara Schumann and her relationships with her then-less-celebrated husband, composer Robert Schumann, and their prot�g�, Joh…
You might call director Elina de Santos an Arthur Miller groupie -- not to trivialize, but to celebrate, her lifelong devotion to the works of the man she considers America's greatest playwr…
On the heels of a great success in "Fallen Angels," Mary-Pat Green turns her attention to Sebastian Barry's "The Steward of Christendom" at the Taper.
Bruce Norris' dark comedy "The Pain and the Itch" played Pasadena before his "Clybourne Park" fame. Now, a revival is set in Pacific Palisades. Jennifer Chambers directs Eric Hunnicutt and B…
Santa Monica's new mid-size Moss Theater, alongside a New Roads School campus, welcomes professional theater artists, especially if they're willing to do something for the students.
Eve Gordon, opening in Shem Bitterman's Open House at the Skylight, has played roles ranging from Marilyn Monroe to the pub proprietor in Peace in Our Time.
Shakespeare specialist Louis Fantasia has instead opted for a Goldoni play, Trouble in Chiozza, for this year's Classical Theatre Lab production in a West Hollywood park.
Peter Lefcourt's The Assassination of Leon Trotsky is subtitled "A Comedy." Joel Swetow and Murielle Zuker play actors who are in a play about Trotsky and Frida Kahlo.
Pamela Dunlap stars as an out-of-shape middle-aged flamenco student in Stephen Sachs' Heart Song, at the Fountain.
Teri Ralston played her first role at age 12 at Laguna Playhouse. Now she has returned there from New York to play Ouiser in Steel Magnolias.
Lindsay Nyman, co-writer and co-director of Theatre for the Blind's new play Yesterday's at Promenade Playhouse, talks about the methodology of working with blind actors.  The ti…
Two Hollywood legends -- director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler -- are the subject of the Falcon's Billy & Ray, which is about their work together on Double Indemnity. The pla…
Mark Schwartz, who produced Menopause the Musical, returns with Divorce Party the Musical, which -- like Menopause --Â uses familiar pop tunes with re-written lyrics. It's a collaboration…
A single, 40-something New Yorker tries to acquire a baby in Lori Jaroslow's musical The Baby Project. It will christen Road Theatre's new second space on Magnolia Boulevard at the NoHo Seni…
Road Theatre's new second space is ready for its close-up at the NoHo Senior Arts Colony on Magnolia Boulevard. It has plenty of restrooms, we're promised. READ MORE
Judd Hirsch, playing the title character in Freud's Last Session at Broad Stage, discusses the doctor and Darwin and the subject of playing many Jewish roles -- which have included, besides …
A revival of The Rainmaker at Edgemar Center is the occasion for a three-way chat among director Jack Heller, Robert Standley in the title role, and Tanna Frederick -- who plays Lizzie and r…
NoHo Senior Arts Colony, a new and partially subsidized housing development, features a professional theater that the Road Theatre Company is about to occupy. The partnership might signify a…
Playwright Carole Real turned a misdiagnosis of pancreatic cancer into a comedy. Doesn't Anyone Know What a Pancreas Is? opens Wednesday in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Speakeasy, staged by Jen…
Women affiliated with Ojai Playwrights Conference will take the stage to portray discuss transitions and turning points, in Milestones next Thursday as part of the Ojai conference. Here are …
Costume designer Jessica Olson has to create costumes that can fit two casts for the Antaeus Company's Macbeth. And director Jessica Kubzansky is placing the idea that the Macbeths had a chi…
Artistic directors talked shop with each other, and looked at the bigger picture too, at an LA STAGE Talks discussion Monday at the Geffen. Among the participants were Michael John Garces, O…
Playwright Murray Mednick continues in the tradition of his Padua Playwrights with The Fool and the Red Queen, opening tomorrow night. He's ably interpreted by director Guy Zimmerman. …
Three theater critics, a playwright and an actress gathered at KPCC Monday to discuss "Arts Criticism -- How Does It Serve Los Angeles?"Â It was part of the LA STAGE Talks series sponsore…
