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Creating a home in the arts is a common occurrence. The camaraderie and shared experiences. Common ground and common goals. Hours and hours spent talking, planning, designing and performing.…
Creating a home in the arts is a common occurrence. The camaraderie and shared experiences. Common ground and common goals. Hours and hours spent talking, planning, designing and performing.…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival has announced the winners of the 2017 Fringe Scholarships. The 10 winners were chosen from an applicant pool of 150. The applications were evaluated based o…
Press Release LOS ANGELES (February 23, 2017) " The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange Coun…
Who doesn't love a good story? A woman’s desperate escape fomented by mysticism, a violent past, dark magic, a baby who doesn't cry, an assemblage of outlandish, urban characters and d…
Press Release GLENDALE, Calif. (Feb. 13, 2017) " Antaeus Theatre Company will name its new venue at 110 E. Broadway in the City of Glendale the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Cente…
Skylight Theatre Company, recognized for their unwavering commitment to developing new works, has confirmed a 2017 lineup of four plays, new to Los Angeles. January 28 – February 25, 2…
South Coast Repertory's 20th Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF), April 21-23, includes works from SCR's renowned play commissioning program and from CrossRoads, SCR's commissioning/community…
Rogue Machine Theatre announces its 2017 season with 5 plays new to Los Angeles: March 4, 2017 – April 23, 2017 West Coast Premiere Still Life Directed by Michael Peretzian Broadway pl…
Bucket List Theatre has announced their updated 2017 season. All productions will take place at the Let Live Theatre (The Actors Company, 916 N Formosa Ave): April 20-28, 2017 Pageant …
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES (January 23, 2017)Â " The Actors' Gang Artistic Director Tim Robbins, Executive Director Simon Hannah, and chair of the Board, Collette Brooks proudly anno…
Far from dealing with “alternative facts, ” the Bard dealt with eternal truths. Any other quotes come to mind? The post Shakespeare on Trump appeared first on Footlights.
A Saturday afternoon lunch with Jeremy Lelliot, founding artistic director of Coeurage Theatre Company, immediately erupted into a snowball of hilarious storytelling in which Jeremy also rev…
The 2016 Ovation Awards were held on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 in the Ahmanson Theatre. The winners in each category are italicized and in red. The evening’s host was Alexandra…
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES (January 14, 2017)Â " Honoring the wishes of his sister Pearl Bordy Frazier, who passed away on October 9 of last year, Drama-Logue founder Bill Bordy has donated…
The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation has bestowed a $15,000 grant on Sierra Madre Playhouse in support of its upcoming production, Thomas Gibbons' Bee-luther-hatchee. The Sierra Ma…
Walking in at the tail end of rehearsal to interview Academy Award-nominated actor Burt Young (Rocky, Chinatown, The Pope of Greenwich Village), starring this month in The Last Vig, a new co…
The following is a letter to the press from Los Angeles publicist Philip Sokoloff: Actress, Director, and Teacher Barbara Tarbuck passed away at the age of 74 on December 26th, 2016, after s…
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017, the last day of the National Month of Outrage: Theatre Artists Unite, Artists Rise Up Los Angeles (ARULA) will stage, E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One, a colle…
In a year when the Colony Theatre suspended its regular season and the Courts agreed to dismiss the lawsuit brought against Actors’ Equity, it is good news indeed to have Studi…
Although 2016 theater news in Los Angeles was dominated by the battle over the elimination or preservation of the 99-Seat Plan, there were other stories that captured Footlights readers&…
Local writers are reflecting on the best that appeared on Los Angeles stages, both large and small, the previous 365 days. Turns out there was a lot: L.A. Times Theater Critic Charles Mc…
Press Release: LOS ANGELES (December 20, 2016)Â " Center Theatre Group has selected three local productions for the inaugural Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Dougl…
Little Fish Theatre presents Pick of the Vine opening on January 13, 2007, as the first production of its 2017 season. Pick of the Vine is a collection of original short-subject plays. T…
Press Release: LOS ANGELES (December 14, 2016) " Members of L.A.'s "Pro99" theater community continue to gather signatures to demand a new referendum on Actors' Equity’s 99-Seat Theate…
With the clock winding down on the Settlement Agreement that was first set up in 1989, L.A. intimate theater is about to face new rules from Actors’ Equity. Needless to say, several L.…