Independent Shakespeare Company attracted more than 2800 theatergoers to Griffith Park last Sunday and nearly 38,000 to its summer season. Its last production, Comedy of Errors, featured a m…
CTG not only almost entirely avoids LA in its upcoming season at its three venues, but a reference to its devotion to LA content that used to be on the CTG website is now missing -- even tho…
As we approach the national political conventions, political plays are popping up. A look at How Obama Got His Groove Back, The Grönholm Method, The Government Inspector, The Return to Mora…
A jaded dramaturge and a world-famous painter try to pass on their wisdom to younger talents in John Morogiello's Blame It on Beckett at the Colony and John Logan's Red at the Mark Taper For…
The late Joan Stein was a specialist in commercial mid-size theater, especially at Beverly Hills'Â Canon Theatre, which she ran with Susan Dietz. Is that kind of theater a dead duck in LA…
Midsize theater leaders respond to the charge that they aren't interested in new plays. Smaller theater producers elect representatives to a committee that will speak for them in talks about…
LA's annual Bard blast offers more than just Shakespeare -- it also offers plenty of adaptations of Shakespeare, from Chance Theater's intimate West Side Story to Vanguard Rep's alfresco Jul…
Summertime -- and the Shakespeare is everywhere. The Shakespeare Center returns to the VA Japanese Garden with another As You Like It, Independent Shakespeare draws big crowds but wants a pe…
Even Charles McNulty now acknowledges that LA's midsize theaters are the "logical" place to introduce new plays that aren't picked up by LORT theaters. So why does he explore this issue by t…
Good grief. The Women of Lockerbie at Theatricum Botanicum and Grace Notes & Anvils at the Odyssey explore many aspects of grief in very different but very effective ways; the latter pla…
The trip made by a sturdy Jitney from South Coast Rep to Pasadena Playhouse raises questions about why more such transfers don't take place. The Fringe ends, with Nina Variations and eggshel…
How should a theatergoer choose between Fringe shows that close sooner and other shows that close later but might be better? Why hasn't the Fringe found a midsize venue in Hollywood where pr…
The LA Times again overdoes the Tony Awards coverage, while ignoring LA theater awards. Yussef El Guindi's Language Rooms at LATC is a must-see, and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper isn't…
With Los Otros at the Taper and Charity at LATC, two of our bigger stages are occupied by the premieres of productions about the Mexican diaspora in southern California -- a rare and excitin…
Follies was the first production at LA's Shubert Theatre, and that theater's imminent demolition 30 years later was the occasion for a Follies-like reunion, which is recalled by the exper…
Springtime on Spring Street brings authentic LA stories -- Cornerstone Theater's production of Lisa Loomer's Café Vida, inspired by the saga of the Homegirl Cafe, and eight short plays at C…
It's election year, so it's time for plenty of plays about politics. Chuck Rose's Bedfellows leads the pack by letting us see the potential as well as the flaws within its California guberna…
Three young women enter adulthood in musicals that are otherwise very different -- Cloudlands at South Coast Rep, Dames at Sea at the Colony and Miss Saigon at La Mirada -- where Jacqueline …
The subject of class distinctions looms large in this election year. Take a look at Good People, The Prince of Atlantis, Billy Elliot, Working, even Long Day's Journey Into Night. Why ar…
99-Seat Plan productions made up "only" 58% of the Equity-related productions in Greater LA in 2011. The others were on Equity contracts " something to think about as Equity considers changi…
The Vault: Bankrupt is almost site-specific, located inside LATC's old bank building, produced by an organization that has had financial problems of its own. Hershey Felder has Lincoln's doc…
The Mike Daisey flap isn't just for the East Coast -- it raises questions about whether or when any producer of non-fictional theater should vet the accuracy of the text. Plus a look at two …
American Idiot -- the musical as opposed to the Green Day album -- owes a lot to its predecessor Spring Awakening, but unfortunately American Idiot isn't nearly as good. The evidence is in t…
By flexing his imagination while also connecting his fantasies to a firm narrative base, Richard Montoya makes history and the immigration experience come alive in his American Night at the …
Antony and Cleopatra is the big new production in A Noise Within's new theater that we've been waiting for. Are you enjoying the Chekhov festival -- the one that includes Theatre Movement Ba…