52 stories by "Deborah Behrens"
by DEBORAH BEHRENS
Steve Julian I knew was a waggish raconteur with an impish twinkle in his eye and infectious laughter on his lips. A beaming presence that could light up any room or r…
Katey Segal discusses her return to the legit stage after 25 years in Randy Newman's "Harps and Angels"at the Mark Taper Forum, the long road between being one of Bette Midler's Harlettes to…
Director Nataki Garrett discusses the west coast premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins provocative "Neighbors" at LA's Matrix Theater Company and how the August Wilson Meets the Minstrels mash-…
Annie Potts is an actress film and television audiences have come to trust. From Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters) to Mary Jo Shively (Designing Women) to Mary Elizabeth “M.E.” Sims …
Helen Helen discusses the joys of playing Beatrice in The Shakespeare Company of Los Angeles' "Much Ado About Nothing", her bi-coastal theatre roots and why she's not suited to stage direct.
LA STAGE Times was given permission to witness the process Dangerous Beauty underwent in the final months leading up to its world premiere opening at the Pasadena Playhouse on February 13, 2…
A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff discusses directing Timberlake Wertenbaker's new translation of Sophocles' Elektra at the Getty Villa in Malibu starring Annie Purcell, Olympia Dukakis…
Dangerous Beauty Director Sheryl Kaller has a favorite mantra she likes to impart after making adjustments or giving notes: That is a change and change is good. The phrase could easily be a …
Legendary costume designer Theoni Aldredge died on Jan. 21. The next day, Soyon An began technical rehearsals for the premiere of the musical Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse, fo…
LA STAGE Times was given permission to witness the process Dangerous Beauty underwent in the final months leading up to its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse on February 13.
Does being a Jenny Craig pitch meister improve one's song-and-dance man game? Ask Jason Alexander.
Ethel Barrymore had a signature Broadway curtain-call line she delivered each night, which originated from her role in ...Continue Reading
LA STAGE Times offers links to its most-read articles from the past year. Celebrities, nudity and controversy were the primary factors driving readership of individual articles.
in "Parfumerie" -- the first play at the new Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills -- Arye Gross plays an employee of a perfume shop in 1937 Hungary. It's not just a rom-com. .
After heckling occurred in a student production of "The Laramie Project" in Mississippi, the LA production of "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" posted a supportive message on YouTube.
"Prometheus Bound", at Getty Villa, offers a 23-foot steel wheel, a new translation by Joel Agee, and a chance to explore one of the world's first plays, notes director Travis Preston.
Amy Brenneman, a pre-LA Cornerstone Theater vet before she became a TV star, makes her full-fledged LA stage debut in Gina Gionfriddo's "Rapture, Blister, Burn" at the Geffen.
McKerrin Kelly staged Brendan at Theatre Banshee and is also directing The Arctic Circle, opening later this month. She also acts, does voiceovers and runs a fitness business. It's a balanci…
Producer Joseph Stern and director Jillian Armenante take on Jackie Sibblies Drury's challenging exploration of racial genocide, "We Are Proud ..., opening Saturday at the Matrix Theatre Com…
Dany Delany plays a DC power broker in Beau Willimon's new The Parisian Woman at South Coast Repertory. She discusses the production and other highlights of her stage career, which has conti…
Married theater veterans and TV stars Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are appearing in Sharr White's "Annapurna" at the 99-seat Odyssey Theatre -- as well as "19 other things apiece." That'…
Playwright Sharr White, fresh off the critical success of his The Other Place on Broadway, answers a few questions about his Annapurna and its stars at the Odyssey Theatre, the real-life mar…
Thirty years ago, Celebration Theatre was born in LA, and Sharon Lawrence saw her first play with gay characters in New York. It took a long time for the two of them to meet, but now they're…
Is Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession about prostitution and hypocrisy, mothers and daughter, or all of the above? It's themes and some personal parallels are revealed by director Robin Larsen …
Kristy Edmunds is midway through her first season as executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA. As she plans her next season, she discusses her gradual education in the ways of LA and its …
