66 stories by "Darlene Donloe"
Watts Village's Meet Me @ Metro series returns to Watts, somewhat scaled back, as Lynn Manning returns as the company's artistic director.
Glynn Turman won an Ovation for a previous August Wilson role, but he thinks he's finally ready to tackle Wilson's work, in the Taper's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."
For Jennifer Leigh Warren, "having it all" doesn't mean the same thing as it did for Helen Gurley Brown, whose book of the same name provided the title for the musical that Warren is in at L…
Ruby Wax -- an American who became a well-known TV personality and comic in the UK -- tackles her own mental health problems in Ruby Wax: Out of Her Mind, at the small Edye space at Broad St…
Preparing to play Hattie McDaniel in Hattie...What I Need You to Know!, Vickilyn Reynolds visited the grave of the Oscar-winning actress in order to ask her some questions. Now, as she's abo…
Former Ovation winner David St. Louis (for Parade at the Taper) is playing George, the suitor of the seamstress in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's his second …
Black Women: State of the Union 'Taking Flight' arrives at the Skylight after success at Company of Angels in 2009. It's a series of six short plays written by, directed by and starring Afri…
Rocky Carroll, a veteran of August Wilson plays, hasn't been on stage since Wilson's Radio Golf in 2005, at the Taper. But the TV star (NCIS) is returning to the boards for Ebony Rep's LA pr…
Sanaa Lathan brings her rendition of the title role in Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark from New York to the Geffen Playhouse -- not far from Hollywood where the play is set. It's …
Dane Cook takes a break from standup comedy to make his professional theater debut as the crazy Nazi who created Springtime for Hitler in Mel Brooks' The Producers, at the Hollywood Bowl thi…
Lillias White brings happy years of experience"but not 285 of them"to her performance as Aunt Ester in Rubicon Theatre Company's Gem of the Ocean, opening tonight. READ MORE
The black soldiers at Camp Logan in Texas became embroiled in a devastating chapter in American history in 1917. Joe Morris' staging of Celeste Bedford Walker's Camp Logan recalls that bitte…
In The Convert, Danai Gurira looks at the cultural conflicts facing a young woman who's fleeing a forced marriage in 1895 Zimbabwe. Gurira knows the turf -- born in Iowa, raised in Zimba…
Matt Shakman, once a Ventura kid turned juvenile TV star, grew up and became an LA theater and TV director. Best known in the LA theater world for his tiny Black Dahlia Theatre, he's about t…
The little Celebration Theatre is doing the big The Color Purple musical with La Toya London, who played Nettie in the touring production but now plays Shug, and with Cesili Williams in the …
Kirsten Vangsness plays an amateur porn star who represents lust in Phinneas Kiyomura's Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE -- it's not the kind of play she wants her nieces to see. Nor is it a lucr…
Pam MacKinnon staged the premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park in 2010, and now she's preparing the Mark Taper Forum's staging, which will morph into the Broadway deb…
Charlayne Woodard, famed for her autobiographical solo plays, takes on her role as surrogate mother to nieces, nephews, godchildren and other offspring of friends in her latest production, T…
Robin Givens, starring in Blues for an Alabama Sky at Pasadena Playhouse, gets all choked up about playing Pearl Cleage's sad and struggling blues singer in Harlem during the Depression. Dir…
Longtime friends Karen Black and David Proval play an aging Jewish couple in the South in Moses Supposes, at the Zephyr. Black reveals what every actor should know, and Proval discloses a pr…
More tales from John Leguizamo's life are about to take over the Montalban Theatre, in Leguizamo's latest solo, Ghetto Klown. Here he talks about how he prepares for his on-stage self-th…
The night's big LA theater winners were Ben Guillory's Robey Theatre Company, who took home the Best Producer Award (local) in association with the Latino Theatre Company for The Reckoning…
It was a full-on celebration at the 4th Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theater Festival held this past weekend at Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC). Utilizing the theme "Raise the…
Corbin Bleu discusses his August 5 Hollywood Bowl debut as Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray, why musicals are now considered cool and what's up with his Food Network fandom.  READ MORE
Discipline, doubt and kale are among a few of Anna Deavere Smith's favorite things as she brings Let Me Down Easy, her solo show on health care, to the Broad Stage. READ MORE
