66 stories by "Darlene Donloe"
By Darlene Donloe
Alex Alpharaoh is a successful playwright, actor, spoken word artist, social worker, and producer. All of those are impressive monikers, but the one designation he co…
by Darlene Donloe
Douglas C. Baker's 40 years of working in the theater haven't diminished his enthusiasm for the art form. If anything, his zeal has increased, he says, because he "loves" …
By Darlene Donloe
Gloria Gifford doesn't consider herself a control freak, she just likes to have her "heavy hand" in every aspect of a production.
"I'm a perfectionist," she says. "I'm …
By Darlene Donloe
Michael Michetti didn't plan it, but as fate would have it he is currently in the midst of a whirlwind directorial convoy that has him helming three consecutive theatrical…
By Darlene Donloe
When it comes to Judith Scott's latest role as Mrs. Kitty Warren, the title character in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, the actress will tell you it's …
By Darlene Donloe
Tonya Pinkins' latest role is painful to watch.
It has nothing to do with her acting ability, the dialogue, or the direction. Rather, it has everything to do with the m…
by Darlene Donloe
Playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's latest play, Br'er Cotton, is an uncomfortable reminder of the state of race in America today.
The show, now playing at the Zeph…
By Darlene Donloe
It was 1967 when Robert Hooks, Douglas Turner Ward, and Gerald Krone sat down at the Orchidia restaurant in Manhattan's East Village and mapped out, on a tablecloth, what …
by Darlene Donloe
The Robey Theatre Company, in association with the Los Angeles Theatre Center, will mount the 2017 Paul Robeson Theatre Festival, with the theme: Harlem To Central Avenue,…
by DARLENE DONLOE
gozi Anyanwu has a strong constitution, and attributes a lot of her grit to her upbringing.
"In Nigerian culture you're expected to be successful," she tells me, sitt…
This is the second part of an interview feature by Darlene Donloe. Read Part I.
This is the second time the show has been in Los Angeles. It was at the Lillian Theater. Is this th…
by DARLENE DONLOE
Dolphin is sitting inside the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, watching intently as workmen put the finishing touches on the lights and set for the musical, Recorde…
by DARLENE DONLOE
The name Gilbert Glenn Brown has become synonymous with "good works" around the L.A. theater world.
A handsome gent with a bright, poetic smile, Brown enjoys a caree…
by DARLENE DONLOE
"There's just something about the theater," says Gregg T. Daniel.
he's acting or directing, both of which have garnered him praise, Daniel is committed to his craft, a…
A closer look at what it takes to make #hff15 happen, along with its creator " Ben Hill.
Director Lisa Peterson describes her latest show, In Mother Words, as a "compilation or quilt play" made up of 15 short pieces by 15 different writers, all describing what it means to be a m…
Jessica Kubzansky admits that being one of the founding artistic directors at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena is the “hardest job” she's ever had in her life.
John Earl Jelks and Tracee Chimo talk about crossing the country to continue the premiere production in L.A. of Neil LaBute's play Break of Noon, at the Geffen.
Ben Vereen still has "magic to do" -- this year as a genie in "Aladdin and His Winter Wish," the holiday-oriented panto at Pasadena Playhouse.
Ellis Williams, playing one of the jurors in the black and white-cast "Twelve Angry Men" at Pasadena Playhouse, looks back on 35 years of acting, growing up in the South, and being on a jury.
Shirley Jo Finney believes she was destined to direct Marcus Gardley's "the road weeps, the well runs dry". She explains why as the play opens the LA leg of a rolling world premiere, at LATC.
Charlie Robinson, a friend of South Coast Rep artistic director Marc Masterson for 45 years, plays Willy Loman in Masterson's mostly African-American "Death of a Salesman."
William Stanford Davis directed a workshop version of John Henry Redwood's "The Old Settler" in 2009 and now stages a full production of it at Pico Playhouse.
Vanessa Bell Calloway portrays author Zora Neale Hurston, of Harlem Renaissance fame, in five performances of Letters From Zora -- In Her Own Words, at Pasadena Playhouse.
Brooke Shields makes her stage directorial debut with Chicago, at the 17,000-seat Hollywood Bowl. She previously performed in the Broadway revival.
