53 stories by "Cynthia Citron"
Mona Golabek, a third-generation concert pianist, concentrates on her mother's story in The Pianist of Willesden Lane at the Geffen. As a child, her talented mother was shipped out of reach …
Auschwitz survivor turned clutch purse manufacturer Lucy Deutsch has now turned her autobiography into the musical No Time to Weep, opening at the Matrix. Starring as the young Lucy is Caitl…
After directing her daughter's school production of Anything Goes, the former Cheers writer/producer Cheri Steinkellner created a new show from old songs in the public domain in order to giv…
David McClendon met David Lee Stafford when they were freshmen in an Oklahoma college. Now the former David is directing Laura, the noir play that its more famous for its movie version, for …
Friends in Russia, Ilia Volok and Eugene Lazarev are now involved in an adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman in West Hollywood. Volok is performing the solo show under Lazarev's direction…
Barbara Bain, of Mission: Impossible fame, chose to accept the mission of playing a gallivanting archeologist, who researches the female brain, in Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body, at Edge…
Tom Dugan's Simon Wiesenthal -- Nazi Hunter, acclaimed at Theatre 40 last year, moves to Ventura's Rubicon Theatre. Although Dugan's father told him stories about his World War II servic…
Gathering at UCLA Hillel for the first two days of its 31st conference, the Association for Jewish Theatre produced panels that began with jokes but went on to discuss ethical values, Jewish…
Sam Anderson is directing Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge at the Road, where he is a co-artistic director. Here he also talks about his experiences in TV's Lost, the recent play Blackbird,…
LA County's annual free holiday celebration at the Music Center, which is broadcast live for three hours on KCET-TV, requires some complicated planning and split-second timing behind the…
Kathrine Bates' The Color of Rose uses three actresses, on stage together, to portray Rose Kennedy in three stages of her life. The West Coast premiere opens tonight at Theatre 40. Bates, wh…
Sherry Glaser created a durable hit, Family Secrets, 21 years ago in LA, but now she's concentrating more on the re-awakening of Mother Nature. It's the subject of The Second Coming: …
Johnny O'Callaghan's solo show Who's Your Daddy? at the Little Victory Theatre relates the tale of his adventures adopting an orphan in Uganda -- and more. His past also includes a stint in …
Kate Bergh's costumes can be seen in two big shows right now -- South Street at the Pasadena Playhouse and Reprise's Cabaret at UCLA. After reading about the designer and her work, you can s…
Director Richard Israel helms Falsettos as the inaugural production for YADA's new Third Street Theatre and explains why a "small musical with big themes" offered him a great opportunity to …
Sarah Treem is moving from writing HBO's In Treatment and Netflix's House of Cards to watching a workshop performance of her newest play, When We Were Young and Unafraid, at the Ojai Playwri…
Roxanne Hart, now appearing in A Death in Colombia, has found new inspiration from working in LA's small theaters. READ MORE
Her email address begins with "nifttt", which she says stands for "nothing is funnier than the truth."Â (It could also stand for "nifty," which she most certainly is.)Â For actor/dir…
"By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank." Â Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Orme…
"All theater is a character telling a story---as if he were sitting around a campfire." Playwright Wendy Graf is sitting around a table at a cafe in Burbank as she quotes iconic director G…
"We have a live lamb on stage and she's not housebroken---or, more accurately, stage-broken---so our first run-through was a bit redolent," director Scott Paulin says. He's talking about t…
You might think living in an all-pink house would give you a toothache.  But, au contraire, Jackie Goldberg, the "Pink Lady," has made her all-pink home a delightful nest of airy lig…
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 protégé, Johannes Br…
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…
"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 semi-a…
