25 stories by "Jessica Koslow"
Joe Iconis has been developing his garage-band musical "The Black Suits" for nearly a decade.. It receives its premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
The site-specific opera "Invisible Cities" turns Union Station into a setting for a tale involving Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, as well as travelers passing through LA. Director Yuval Sharon …
A gay African American teenager and tweets and texts about him are the focus in choreographer David Rousseve's and sound designer d. Sabela grimes' "Stardust," part of Radar L.A.
Joe Orrach boxes, dances, talks about his Boriqua upbringing in New York and his troubled relationship with his father. Add a jazz trio, and you get "In My Corner" at the Odyssey.
Culture Shock LA and Versa-Style Dance Company bring hip-hop to Ford Amphitheatre this season.
ModRock, a new jukebox musical at El Portal, pits the rockers of Wembley against the mods of Stepney in 1965 London, explain producer Tom Coleman and director Brian Lohmann.
Jeff Arch, who wrote the Sleepless in Seattle story, spent more time working on the stage musical version, now at Pasadena Playhouse, than he spent on the movie.
Director Tim Dang applies colorblind casting to his revival of Chess for East West Players.
As Traces, the Canadian-based circus, returns to LA at the Music Center, performer Bradley Henderson discusses the group's focus on performers as real people.
Trisha Brown has stopped choreographing, but CAP UCLA is offering an extensive retrospective of her work -- not only at UCLA but also at Getty Center and Hammer Museum. Diane Madden, one of …
Choreographer Oguri read Huckleberry Finn in Japanese and asked jazz master Wadada Leo Smith to write and perform a score for a dance inspired by the novel. The result, called Notaway: Quest…
For more than a decade, Ken Roht has contemplated turning Strindberg's Miss Julie into a gay man, Miss Julien. Now it's happening, in a somewhat environmental production called Ken Roht's Mi…
Australia's Circus Oz made a big splash in a short run at UCLA in 1984, as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. Its venue then was the smaller Freud; now it's returning to the bigger Royce Hal…
Marc Bamuthi Joseph hosts eco-festivals in underserved parts of American cities. In his red, black & GREEN: a blues, these festivals are represented in an installation on stage, where th…
The celebrated composer and performer Meredith Monk brings her vocal ensemble to UCLA this weekend for the premiere of On Behalf of Nature. She says she would like to deliver political messa…
Helmer-choreographer Kathleen Marshall puts the kicks in the old-time Cole Porter tuner, opening this week at Ahmanson Theatre. READ MORE
Lilith, who arguably pre-dated Eve as the first woman in Hebrew folklore, unites playwright Aaron Henne's new theatre dybbuk and Kate Hutter's LA Contemporary Dance Company in a choreographe…
For Storytales, WordTheatre combines the micro-fiction of John Edgar Wideman, 30 well-known actor/readers, a score by Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll of the Cool Kids, the dance troupe Cu…
Street dancers are strongly individualistic, notes Amy "Catfox" Campion, who runs Antics Performance. So how does she transform their solo breaking, popping and krumping moves into a theatri…
Mikhail Baryshnikov immigrated to the West from the Soviet Union, becoming an international ballet superstar. Now, at age 64, his destinations have changed " he doesn't dance much in the US …
London-based Steven Hoggett choreographed American Idiot, the Green Day musical that opens tonight at the Ahmanson. Director Michael Mayer had liked Hoggett's Black Watch work. But Hogge…
Sahr Ngaujah, an American-born son of a father from Sierra Leone and an American mother, portrays the late Afrobeat star and political activist Fela Kuti in the Bill T. Jones-directed musica…
It feels like teen spirit -- and team spirit -- at the Ahmanson Theatre, where Adrienne Warren and Taylor Louderman prepare for their starring roles in Bring It On: The Musical. No, they…
As Twyla Tharp's Come Fly With Me arrives at the Pantages, Twyla Tharp resident director John Selya discusses the heartfelt break dancing he'll be doing, the long-running romance between Tha…
Todd Nielsen returns to International City Theatre to helm a show dear to his heart -- The Robber Bridegroom, opening October 14. The multi-tasking director previously led a 1986 product…
