55 stories by "Les Spindle"
Broadway/L.A. is offering one of its most tantalizing seasons yet, including several recent Broadway Tony winners and nominees.
Broadway fans know him as pretty-boy killer Clyde Barrow in "Bonnie and Clyde" and as Jack Kelly in his Tony-nominated turn in the megahit, "Newsies." Followers of TV musicals watched him cr…
John Sawicki has lived in LA for two years, but he has been touring with "Stomp" for 16 years. Now he gets to perform it on his new home turf, at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Edward Tournier, who was active in small LA theater for seven years before moving to New York, is back in town as an actor in the "Peter and the Starcatcher" tour, soon playing the Ahmanson.
Brian Shnipper conceived and developed "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays." Now he's staging Tom Dudzick's "Miracle on South Division Street" at Colony Theatre.
Six of the seven Ovation Awards winners from "The Nether" discuss their collaboration, along with director Neel Keller. It won more Ovations Sunday than any other production.
Deborah Puette maintains that David Lindsay-Abaire's "The Rabbit Hole" isn't a total trail of tears. She's starring in it at La Mirada Theatre.
Steven Leigh Morris, best known as the LA Weekly theater maven, dons his playwright's cap for "Moskva," an adaptation of Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" at City Garage.
Philip Dawkins' "The Homosexuals", opening in Atwater, is Celebration Theatre's first production since leaving its previous home. Executive director Michael Kricfalusi talks about the move.
Terrence McNally, guest of honor at a four-day Skylight Theatre tribute, reflects on some of the results of his personal golden age of writing plays.
Allan Miller was going to play Ben in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound on Broadway in 2009 when the production was canceled. Now he's finally doing the role, at La Mirada Theatre.
The LA Gay and Lesbian Center's LA premiere of "The Laramie Project -- 10 Years Later," staged by Ken Sawyer, mixes the actors up with the audience, town meeting-style.
Here comes the second edition of Radar L.A., the international arts festival to take place in late September in LA and Culver City. Its curators and two of its performers speak.
At age 16, Valerie Rose Lohman is playing Anne Frank -- only three months after she played Mary Phagan in Parade, another production about severe anti-semitism.
Wyatt Fenner's Puck for the Shakespeare Center is only the latest chapter in his Puck-like travels through LA's theatrical landscape.
Pacific Resident Theatre artistic director Marilyn Fox and Dana Jackson collaborate on the company's revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, featuring PRT actor/playwrigfht Vince …
Jefferson Mays, opening in the US premiere of Yes, Prime Minister at the Geffen, discusses some of his career highlights and the power of transformation on stage. .
Dámaso Rodriguez, co-founding artistic director of LA's Furious Theatre Company and new artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, helms a farewell remounting of Matthew …
It's curtains for Downey Civic Light Opera after this season -- and more than four decades. The final show, Paint Your Wagon, opens Friday.
Composer Jason Robert Brown discusses the evolution of Parade, which plunges Fullerton's 3-D Theatricals into darker subject matter.
Vs. Theatre Company is about to open its new home, in the tiny space formerly occupied by Black Dahlia, with the premiere of Cops and Friends of Cops, by the company's literary director and …
As Group Rep turns 40, co-artistic directors Larry Eisenberg and Chris Winfield balance many considerations as they extend the legacy of the company and its late founder Lonny Chapman. GRT i…
Married since 1984, Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman are known primarily for writing and acting gigs they've done separately. But more than 25 years ago, they began writing a play they could p…
Steve Yockey has found a way to get four successive "premieres" for his new plays -- the National New Play Network. His Wolves is completing the final chapater of its four-pronged" premiere"…
At least two of the three women who make up DOMA Theatre's Dreamgirls dreamed of being in the show as they were growing up. Now it's opening in the intimate Met Theatre, with Tyra Dennis, Co…
