Cornerstone Theater's Food Cycle continues with "Love on San Pedro," by James McManus, staged by Shishir Kurup. Citizens of Skid Row join the Cornerstone pros to examine their community.
Thea Sharrock has brought Neil Simon's "Sunshine Boys" from London to LA, with Danny DeVito and with DeVito's former "Taxi" colleague replacing the late Richard Griffiths. They're listening.…
School lunches, the people who prepare them and the students who eat them are the subjects of Lunch Lady Courage -- loosely inspired by Brecht's Mother Courage, says playwright Peter Howard.…
Andrew Kuchlewska's Complete examines the use of language in the self-help community via two linguists who participate in a seminar. Jennifer Chambers, who directs the production at the Matr…
In part 2 of our examination of local box offices, we look at some of those in LA's small theaters -- Theatre of NOTE, Antaeus, EST/LA, Sacred Fools, Rogue Machine, Fountain and Boston Court…
Director Bart DeLorenzo's "Tarentino period" has ended, and he's on to the happy ending of Cymbeline at A Noise Within, where Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and actor Joel Swetow join in the discus…
The box offices at some of LA's bigger theaters are beehives of activity. In interviews with box office employees at the Geffen Playhouse, A Noise Within, Pasadena Playhouse and Center Theat…
The Psychic Life of Savages, a 1995 dark comedy from Amy Freed, was inspired by several well-known, troubled poets in the late '50s and early '60s. Angie Scott and Nate Edelman discuss their…
Cornerstone Theater's Café Vida was inspired by the former gang members who re-enter productive society via jobs at downtown LA's Homegirl Café. Lisa Loomer was hired to write the play, wh…
Hershey Felder is known for his solo shows about composers. But in his new Lincoln, he is the composer, and he has eliminated his usual piano in favor of an orchestra. He plays the doctor wh…
Beth Henley's new The Jacksonian opens tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. The three women in the cast -- Amy Madigan, Glenne Headly and Bess Rous -- gather to discuss the evil that permeates t…
Theater artists who use first-person testimony and historical artifacts was the topic of a panel on Day 3 of the Association for Jewish Theatre conference, which met at USC on Tuesday. T…
The Music Center employs a corps of 300 paid ushers. They are trained to work at all four of the Music Center venues -- which host more than 1000 performances a year, plus plenty of special …
Olympia Dukakis and Marco Barricelli are appearing in the only two roles in Morris Panych's Vigil at the Mark Taper Forum. Barricelli talks during most of the play, and Dukakis mostly listen…
Cornerstone Theater's next big cycle will include nine plays on hunger and food-related subjects over the next five years. But first, the public is invited to two weeks of appetizers under t…