L.A. Times: Fountain Theatre co-founder and co-artistic director, Stephen Sachs recalls a quarter-century of productions on one of L.A.’s most vital intimate theaters from Deborah Lawl…
Playbill.com: Oh No She Didn’t! There are many kinds of actor nightmares, but this looks like a new one. An intoxicated audience member climbed onto the stage of the Signature Theatre …
Stage Raw: Can Actors’ Equity Association new president Kate Shindle save her union by setting the factual record straight to the rank-and-file membership from Los Angeles to New Yo…
Playbill.com: “Arrogant” and “cowardly” were words used by Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, to describe guidelines posted by the Words Players Theatre …
LA Times: L.A. small theater hit “Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara” is back on its feet after a six-year interruption and is headed for the Geffen Playhouse and Laguna Playh…
Iconic L.A. architects Neutra and Schindler reunite in a site-specific play, 'The Princes of Kings Road,' at the Neutra Institute and Museum of Silverlake. In 1953, iconic L.A. architects…
NPR: Bye Bye Birdie, Our Town and Beauty and the Beast have all spent time at the top of Dramatics’ high school theater rankings. Â There’s just something about the high school…
HowlRound: Jonathan Mandell on the shifting definitions of “amateur”, Â “professional theatre” and “theatre professional.” “Given the economic rea…
L.A. Weekly: "We haven't been treated fairly, and everybody knows it, says actress Maria Gobetti. She’s objecting to the elimination of L.A.’s 99-Seat Theate plan by Actor’…
Stage Raw: There are hundreds of theaters, unknown even in their own back yards. You'd think in an age where "Google" has become a verb, no information could remain hidden. Kevin Delin looks…
THE STAGE: Phil Willmott writes why a new generation of directors is too scared to make theatre – Â “I've had people contacting me in tears for advice after being bullied by th…
AMERICAN THEATRE: Â Why do we spell it ‘theatre’? As with many questions of language, there’s a simple answer but not a ‘right’ one. Â 1Jt3EGd The post Re: …
AMERICAN THEATRE: Every month, American Theatre wants YOUR input. We post up a new cartoon and you, readers, are invited to write a caption to it. This month caption this image and …
BBC News: A group of actors lose an employment tribunal case after claiming they should be paid the minimum wage for appearing in a fringe theatre play. http://bbc.in/1KaIW3q The post Fringe…
First, it took the sitcoms. Now the Netflix pay model is seeping into theater culture. Finally. Third Rail Repertory is the first Portland company pitching a monthly membership subscription …
HuffPost: Maybe it’s the summer doldrums, but an uneasy quiet has settled in on the Western Front wars between Actors’ Equity and LA’s 99-seat theater movement. The  …
theGuardian: When was the last time you went to a new theatre show you knew nothing about? In a venue you had never been to before? Where you read the blurb, looked at the image and de…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRISÂ Earlier this year the union's heavily-lobbied proposal to replace the 99-Seat plan was put to an "advisory referendum," i.e. a vote of the Los Angeles membership, w…
Broadway World: ‘Spring Awakening,’ in a co-production revival by Los Angeles based Deaf West Theatre and Forest Of Arden, will transfer to Broadway in the fall. Â It was first…
East West Players (EWP), the nation's longest running professional theatre of color and the largest creator of Asian Pacific artistic work, announced today that Tim Dang, Producing Artistic …
Stage Raw: The National Council of Actors Equity Association overruled the overwhelming results of a local referendum. Â Defying the clearly-expressed wishes of its local membership, the u…
Here’s a question for you Angelenos: What has a 2000 person workforce, puts on more shows than any other theatre festival in the country, runs for over three weeks in June in dozens of…
The 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival ended last night after crowning this year’s award winners at the annual Award Ceremony and Closing Night Party. Over 650 people attended the event. �…
The website Bitter Lemons now allows theaters to pay to be reviewed.  Speaking for the  American Theatre Critics Association (ATAC) chair Bill Hirschman had this to say……
How to Write About Theatre: Independent theatre criticism or payola? – Â The Guardian Scotland writer Marc Fisher comments: Linking coverage to cash on the barrelhead can only serve …