201 stories by "La Stage Alliance"
LA STAGE Times is taking a brief hiatus next week and will be back online January 3. Wishing all our readers a happy holiday and a joyous 2012! READ MORE
Director Heidi Helen Davis has died from breast cancer. She's probably best know for staging more than 20 Theatricum Botanicum productions since 1988, but she also staged the premiere of EM …
Shinsai: Theaters for Japan on March 11 will mark the anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake with short performances at American theaters, designed to benefit Japanese theater arti…
The Ovation Awards ceremony Monday offered laughs from French Stewart, Carolyn Hennesy and Sally Struthers, tears and counsel from Wren Brown, fond memories of Gil Cates from Randall Arney a…
Troubadour Theater Company won more Ovations than any other company, its A Wither's Tale took more trophies than any other production, and two of its leaders -- Matt Walker and Beth Kennedy …
Frank Mancuso, Geffen Playhouse's board chairman, will temporarily become the playhouse's producing director -- a title that had been held by the late Gil Cates. A special executive sess…
A public forum on the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, which would re-vitalize the downtown LA street and many of its historic theaters, is taking place at one of those landmark theaters, …
LA stage veteran Carolyn Hennesy will host the Ovation Awards ceremony, stepping in for French Stewart, who had to withdraw because of a professional conflict. Also, here's a list of the pre…
The Biller Family Foundation has opened a new source of private funding for smaller LA theater companies with its annual BEST awards. The first batch of grants has provided $47,500 to a tota…
Gilbert Cates, the founder and producing director of the Geffen Playhouse, died Monday at the age of 77. During his tenure, Geffen productions earned 119 Ovation Award nominations and won 27…
Preparing for the Ovation Awards ceremony on Nov. 14, Ovation nominees gathered last Sunday at a reception at the Norris Center in Rolling Hills Estates. Two of the Ovation Honorary Awards w…
If Sherlock Holmes were to give voice lessons, but then was discovered to be an immigrant from the third rock from the sun, you might get someone resembling French Stewart, who will host the…
Engine29, another pop-up arts journalism web site, is preparing for a November burst of activity. But don't confuse it with last June's Engine28 website, which also arose out of USC's Annenb…
Center Theatre Group turned the Kirk Douglas Theatre lobby turned into a Wild West shindig for opening night of The Rude Mechs musical I've Never Been So Happy. Attendees were offered cowboy…
Center Theatre Group has selected seven LA-based playwrights for its 2011-2012 Writers' Workshop. They include Padraic Duffy, Larissa FastHorse, Sigrid Gilmer, Prince Gomolvilas, Jennifer H…
The Reprise Theatre Company led the 2011 Ovation Award nominations with (17), followed by the Troubadour Theater Company (16), Center Theatre Group (12) and Demand Productions (11). Most n…
Watch tonight's 2011 Ovation Award nominees announcement live from the Falcon Theatre in Burbank on LASTAGETimes.com beginning at 7:00 pm. READ MORE
Center Theatre Group and the LA Stage Alliance hosted a reception at Corkbar in downtown LA to welcome South Coast Repertory's new Artistic Director Marc Masterson to the Los Angeles theat…
A group of 20-30 area theatre leaders are meeting on 9/10/2011, for a Theatre Vision/Council Task Force Day, to create a draft of a vision and a council structure for the Greater LA Theatre …
South Coast Repertory has announced it is expanding its 2011-2012 Studio Series to include Los Angeles county theater companies. The series partners SCR with "eclectic and adventurous loca…
Eight free workshops for arts organizations considering applying to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Organizational Grant Program (OGP) will be held throughout LA county between S…
LA STAGE Alliance announces the LA Dance Advance, an initiative to increase connections between Los Angeles area dance artists and regional and national audiences. LA Dance Advance is intend…
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and its project partners are soliciting community input for the proposed Broadway Arts Center. Two separate surveys -- one for individu…
The NAACP Theatre Awards ceremonies in Hollywood on August 29 will be preceded by a weekend festival at Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown LA, including performances and panel discussion…
Are you interested in the creative evolution of Downtown Los Angeles? The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs invites members of the creative community -- artists, professio…
