153 stories by "Margaret Gray"
The characters in Ron Klier's new play "Gus's Fashions
The importance of Martha Graham in modern dance can't be overstated: Like Picasso and Stravinsky, she is credited with bringing a classical art form forcibly into the 20th century through ra…
South Coast Repertory's generosity to new playwrights has a fairy godmother-like charm. The company commissioned a play from the relatively unknown writer Melissa Ross and has lavished a vis…
I thought I was over "Cinderella." I assumed the whole world was over "Cinderella" right along with me.
"I'm actually wondering if I need to put a giant sign in the lobby of the Pasadena Playhouse that says, 'This is not like "My Fair Lady," ' " says Jessica Kubzansky, who is directing a reviv…
Theatre West has revived Jim Beaver's play "Verdigris," a hit for the company 30 years ago, about a young man's absorption into an offbeat Oklahoma family in the summer of 1972.
There are plenty of fish in the sea, we console ourselves when loved ones escape our nets. But in Kimber Lee's new play, "tokyo fish story," having its world premiere at South Coast Repertor…
David Mamet's "American Buffalo," which premiered in Chicago in 1975, startled and delighted the theater world with its dialogue: broken, overlapping sentence fragments, studded with expleti…
"Enter Laughing," Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical 1958 novel, has had nearly as varied a career as its author. Playwright Joseph Stein ("Fiddler on the Roof") turned it into a Broadway p…
The versatile impressionist Darrell Hammond, 59, holds the record as the longest-running cast member on "Saturday Night Live" (1995-2009) and recently succeeded the late Don Pardo as the pro…
"Serrano the Musical," in its world premiere at the Matrix Theatre, relocates "Cyrano de Bergerac," originally set in 1640 France, to New York's Little Italy, around now.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas -- an unusually frosty, Northeastern Christmas for these climes -- at the Hudson Mainstage, where a twinkly new production of John Cariani's "Almo…
"It's currently 12 degrees in Chicago," says Robert Falls, the artistic director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre. He's in L.A. to oversee the Tuesday opening at the Kirk Douglas Theatre of Rebe…
Would you believe that in the Broadway juggernaut "Kinky Boots," which has just arrived at the Pantages Theatre, nobody even wears boots?
In his new play, "Nice Things," premiering at Rogue Machine Theatre, Vince Melocchi returns to the middle-American, blue-collar, recession-devastated milieu of his two previous plays, "Lions…
Underpinning much of Mel Brooks's comedy is the assumption that people constantly yearn to break into tightly choreographed, vaudeville-style song-and-dance routines.
Michael Wilson's revival of Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful," which has just opened at the Ahmanson Theatre, premiered on Broadway in 2013 to a bounty of praise and nominations, especi…
"Let's Make a Deal's" Wayne Brady as the lead in a revival of "Kiss Me, Kate": It almost sounds like an especially wacky draft in some fantasy stunt-casting league for theater directors.
"We're just going around in circles," a character accurately observes in British playwright Mike Bartlett's "Cockfight Play," having its L.A. premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre. (The actual t…
It may sit uneasily with our notion of Shakespeare to imagine him tackling the hot-button issues of his era like a Jacobean David Mamet.Â
J.B. Murray, the outsider artist and subject of the musical hagiography "Visionary Man" at the Hudson Mainstage, was an illiterate Georgia farmer who at age 70, after receiving a message fro…
New York is only three hours ahead of L.A., but in theatrical time, the distance often seems greater. Broadway events, like starlight from distant galaxies, can take years to reach us.
Sometimes I wish Shakespeare had written a different version of "The Taming of the Shrew" " one in which the shrew is "tamed" with, say, empathy and affection instead of torture.
A divorced couple and their new partners meet for a dinner that shakes up their lives in Peter Lefcourt's romantic comedy "The Way You Look Tonight," premiering at the Odyssey Theater under …
The Fountain Theatre follows up its award-winning 2012 production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's "In the Red and Brown Water" with a vibrant incarnation of "The Brothers Size," the second instal…
