52 stories by "Deborah Behrens"
Robert Foxworth plays a Reaganesque character in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, but in fact he opposed Reagan to the extent that he produced a radio series th…
He's macho on the big screen. Off-screen, he's attracted to a man. So is his wife -- to another man. So goes the story of Justin Love, the new musical at the Celebration that's a collaborati…
Helen was hot in early '60s Hollywood. Then this beautiful woman, normally associated with Troy, was spirited away to exile while a phantom Helen wrecked havoc in her place. In this way, ada…
Tessa Thompson didn't like Shakespeare at Santa Monica High School. But roles in two LA Shakespeare productions introduced her to the notion of being an actor. A decade later, after many dis…
Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, were among the stars of the final leg of Crystal Cruises' 2012 Film and Theatre Cruise, as it headed…
LA STAGE Times Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens recalls a summer 2009 afternoon spent with the legendary author, who reminded her why she wanted to be a writer. READ MORE
In honor of Ray Bradbury's passing today at 91, we re-post this July 2009 interview by Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens from the LA STAGE Times archives. As we said then -- "A month shy o…
Crystal Cruises' Serenity heads through the Panama Canal to colorful Cartagena while eye-catching costumes, ear-catching performances and conversations"including one with The Birds star Tipp…
Crystal's Cruises' Serenity sails south, and the performers on this theater-related cruise have to vie for rehearsal space and time. How about the fitness room after midnight? Susan Claassen…
A cruise is making is way down the Mexican coast, en route to the Panama Canal and then New York -- and it will benefit such LA arts nonprofits as Center Theatre Group and the Gay Men's Chor…
After a critic called Wendy Johnson "a Judy Holliday clone," she began investigating her inner Holliday. The result is Johnson's Concealing Judy Holliday, a multi-actor play about the origin…
JoBeth Williams equates making her LA intimate theater debut in Joel Drake Johnson's The Fall to Earth at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble to climbing Mount Everest. Director Robin Larsen he…
Kathleen Turner discusses how portraying the late iconic Texas columnist, in the West Coast premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kiss-Ass Wisdom of Molly Ivins opening tonight at the Geffen, fit…
Director Sheryl Kaller discusses her long bi-coastal journey with Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall from first reading to Off-Broadway sensation to Broadway Tony Award nominee. She gleaned new ins…
Anne Archer discusses her return to the stage as Jane Fonda in Terry Jastow's Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion at Edgemar Center for the Arts, what playing Mrs. Robinson in The Grad…
Director Anne Bogart discusses SITI Company's production of Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa, her new criteria for projects at 60 and why 'just keep walking' is a mantra she…
Hal Linden and Christina Pickles have circled each other's orbit since both became Broadway regulars in the early '60s, then network television stars on Barney Miller and St. Elsewhere -- …
No one could accuse Ann Closs-Farley of being beige. The multiple award-winning costume designer best known for her eye-popping creations in Ken Roht's 99¢ Only holiday extravaganzas to…
Going to Mitzi Gaynor's home is like being invited over for a play date with your soon-to-be new best friend and her gal pals. Not only do Nellie Forbush and Ethel Merman make cameos but L…
All politics are personal. None more so perhaps than the fight over gay marriage, currently playing itself out in California courts and on stage in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage P…
Tis the theatrical season for high-end call girls. First a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica in Dangerous Beauty and now Manhattan-based Charlotte in the premiere of Jane Anders…
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 (Any Day Now…
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 Playhou…
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…
