18 stories by "Steven Sabel"
Coco Blignaut produces "God's Gypsy," about St. Teresa of Ãvila, and also plays Teresa. She recruited Lili Haydn to do the music. The play opens Saturday at the Lillian Theatre.
Gordon Goodman is tackling the role of John Barrymore in the almost-solo "Barrymore," by William Luce, for Good People Theater Company's second production.
Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and actor Thomas Tofel discuss A Noise Within's action-packed season opener, Shakespeare's "Pericles." Tofel plays both hero and villain.
Lee Meriwether returns to her stage home, Theatre West, in William Blinn's play about twilight-years lovers, "A Short Stay at Carranor."
A family affair: Ellen Geer's Merlin melds Arthurian wizardry and 40 years of theater-making at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.
Dr. Faustus, I presume? Steven Sabel has deleted some of Marlowe's scenes and added some of his own to make Faustus more contemporary, at Archway Theatre.
The Geers play the Cavendishes, who were representing the Barrymores, in the Kaufman/Ferber comedy, The Royal Family, at Theatricum Botanicum.
Shakespeare's popular comedy morphs into Troubadour Theater's A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream, while New American's Theatre's version features Greek Gypsy fairies.
Marco Ramirez's The Royale, based on the story of Jack Johnson, is an example of what he calls "naked theater." It's at the Kirk Douglas.
Mark Saltzman dramatizes the closeted side as well as the professional side of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart in the new musical Falling for Make Believe, at the Colony. He discusses the pro…
In Red Line Time, dancers will perform for underground audiences on Frioday and Saturday, as the Red Line makes its rounds from downtown's Union Station to North Hollywood and back. Goethe I…
Wilson Milam staged the premiere of The Lieutenant of Inishmore in England and later brought it to Broadway and Los Angeles. Now he's staging another Irish play, Robert Massey's Rank, at the…
Is autism a disability or just a difference? It's one of the questions raised in Ken LaZebnik's play about two young people who fall in love. Both of them are on the autism spectrum. Jacquel…
Growing up in Missouri, the death of a friend inspired Jules Willcox to follow her heart into theater. Now Willcox is playing Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, who dies and must then choose between an …
An FBI agent played by Greg0ry Itzin, posing as a teenage girl, lures another middle-aged man played by JD Cullum, into an online sting. So goes Sexsting, at the Skylight. Playwright Doris B…
Albert Alarr, a Juilliard-trained director of TV soaps, is staging his first musical, the Sondheim/Furth Company, which he compares to Shakespeare's Tempest. It's at Crown City Theatre…
The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, a drama about the making of the landmark porn film, arrives in LA, near the epicenter of the adult film industry. Directed by Jerry Douglas, the actors who play …
Phaedra's Lust reworks the classic tale of forbidden love through the lens of modern stage conventions and subplot constructions, including an intense seduction scene. But it's still set in…
