28 stories by "Gary Ballard"
Playwright Ron Hutchinson wrote Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedic retelling of how the final film script came into being. It had its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2004 an…
Daniel Henning, founding artistic director of the Blank Theatre Company, tells how it began, “When I did a play at the age of four, that was sort of it. I was bit hard. It was Stone So…
Sab Shimono, a veteran actor with East West Players for more than three decades, is adding a new wrinkle to his repertoire. He stars in East/West's premier of Wrinkles, by Paul Kikuchi, ope…
Will Leslie Jordan ever run out of material for his autobiographical solo shows? Probably not, if his mother has anything to say about it -- which she does. Director David Galligan helps Jor…
Staging I Love Lucy episodes in a 99-seat theater is harder than it looks. The actors, producers and director Rick Sparks talk about the challenges in the Live on Stage version at Greenw…
"You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Thus spoke Asa Yoelson"better known to the world as Al Jolson"so resoundingly it became his catch phrase, trademark and battle cry all rolled into one. Tho…
If you were a teacher in grade school with both Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger in your class, you'd quickly learn to separate the two of them to opposite corners of the room. Even then…
Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo, the married team who have run Santa Monica Playhouse since 1973, continue the playhouse's 50th anniversary celebration with Dolls--Not Your Usual Love Story! …
All the world's a stage. You might not agree with that sentiment. You might wish to argue or debate it. But as you like it or not, you'd be foolish to deny its cultural impact gi…
According to an old cliche, you get only one opportunity to make a first impression. That impression, however, can often assume folkloric dimensions or an iconic status when recounted nu…
Pacific Resident Theatre's Artistic Director Marilyn Fox discusses her new show of J.M Barrie one-acts entitled Barrie: Back to Back, being invited to bring Vince Melocchi's Julia to New …
The Colony opens its 37th season June 4 with the West Coast premiere of Michael Golamco's Year Zero, centering around Cambodian American brother and sister Vuthy and Ra Vichea's efforts to …
David Hunt Stafford loves theater. Talk to him approximately 15 minutes and you know it. Talk to him another five or so, and he'll tell you about Theatre 40 where he serves as Artistic and…
Les Hanson, founding artistic director of West Coast Ensemble, is espousing the traditions of those wandering minstrels of yore with his next production. He opens Gypsy by Arthur Laurents,…
Elizabeth Swain could fall prey to a whimsical journalistic labeling or libeling about how disaffected, displeased and distrustful she currently is, and nothing could be more distanced from …
The newest offering of Theatre West, which has produced plays since 1962, is a world premiere entitled Goodbye, Louie . . . Hello! by the late Allan Manings. The play is creating some bitter…
The famed bluebird of happiness traces its more modern roots to the 1697 publication of L'Oiseau Bleu by Madame d'Aulnoy, who adapted the premise from ancient legends. The Road Theatre Compa…
Daniel Henning, founding artistic director of the Blank Theatre Company, tells how it began, "When I did a play at the age of four, that was sort of it. I was bit hard. It was Stone Soup,…
Simon Levy directs Tennessee Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand at the Fountain Theatre in its West Coast premiere opening Feb. 26. He says, "This play, coming as late as it does in the Wi…
Sab Shimono, a veteran actor with East West Players for more than three decades, is adding a new wrinkle to his repertoire. Â He stars in East/West's premier of Wrinkles, by Paul Kikuchi, …
Playwright Ron Hutchinson wrote Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedic retelling of how the final film script came into being. It had its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2004 an…
A theatrical adding machine, perhaps? Now, in his long-running role as artistic director of Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Sossi is gearing up to present the West Coast premiere of Ad…
Roday, Raider and Red Dog. Kinda rolls off the tongue, huh? But who"or what"are they? A rock group? A trio of swashbucklers? Surely not a stock brokerage or a law firm. No, the first tw…
The annual LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards for excellence in greater LA theater will be presented in January and seven producing entities are nominated in the prestigious category …
