What Would An American National Theater Look Like?
Playbill believes it knows how an American National Theater should look… and why America needs one: …unlike most nations (the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, China, and India among…
Playbill believes it knows how an American National Theater should look… and why America needs one: …unlike most nations (the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, China, and India among…
Miami is not particularly known for being a theater center for the US which is all the more reason why Christine Dolen’s thoughts on the scene there, after 36 years of watching it as a…
Deadline Hollywood: A sobering look at the “new normal” where roles once billed as “Guest Stars” are now day players. If actors don’t have television to…
Time Out:Â Long time critic Bob Verini gives his assessment of LA theater in 2015. …a lot of first-class work managed to find its way to LA's stages… the kind of ambitious, so…
ThisStage.LA:Â In a year that has been full of surprising twists and turns for the Los Angeles Theater Community, Sacred Fools has announced it will be moving into the space recently vaca…
The New York Times:Â Actress Leslie Uggams is doing in New York what often happens in Los Angeles: opting for a well-paying gig, a recurring roll on television, over a theater roll. …
LA Times: Charles McNulty reflects on the theater highlights of 2015. Fun Home and Hamilton:Â These musicals, both of which began at the Public Theater, have brought new currency to an ar…
Keeping the lights (and their clothes) on in a non-profit theatre isn't always easy as Antaeus Theatre Company proves in their latest video. The post Antaeus: “Turn Off The Dark!”…
The New York Times interviewed actors Viola David and Edie Falco: New York Times: You'd rather be struggling still? Viola Davis: I look back on those early days in the theater like the begin…
American Theatre: The Theatre @Boston Court is profiled in this month’s print issue. Like all intimate theaters in Los Angeles, its future will be heavily determined by its res…
In a filmed on-site interview at the Old Town Ale House, Shannon and Fitzgerald talk about the history behind A Red Orchid, the challenges of celebrity and why Chicago storefront theat…
Theatre Communications Group, the publisher of American Theatre, has taken an official position on color-conscious casting. You can co-sign this letter by going to their web form. Decemb…
American Theatre:Â Incoming LA STAGE Alliance Executive Director, Steven Leigh Morris, gives an extended interview on the future of Los Angeles theater and his ideas on how to get it ther…
Stage Raw: The third and final in a series of recent Stage Raw symposia was held Monday. It focused on the hot topic of diversity: During the post-symposium questions, a discussion erupt…
From Theatre Banshee’s Facebook page: It is with heavy hearts that we post the sad news that The Banshee will be closing it’s doors Dec. 1. This fall we were hit with a sudden an…
Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakenings continues to gain national attention with their cast performance of “Touch Me” on Late Night with Seth Meyers, November 23, 2015. …
Center Theatre Group Press Release: After reviewing over 230 play submissions, Center Theatre Group announced today that 10 finalists have been chosen for the first annual Humanitas/CTG Play…
LA Times Theater Critic, Charles McNulty, writes of the current revolution in American play writing: This fall season has provided Los Angeles theatergoers the opportunity to become better a…
Bitter Lemons: Geoff Hoff, founder of LA Theater Review and a pioneer in getting Los Angeles theater onto the Internet, died on November 18, 2015. He was 60 years old. David …
Dramatists Guild of America President, Doug Wright, has officially weighed in on the controversy surrounding playwright Lloyd Suh’s decision to prevent Clarion University from producin…
SUBSTITUTE MOTION BY SUPERVISORS HILDA L. SOLIS AND MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS NOVEMBER 10, 2015 Improving Leadership, Work Force, Programming and Audience Diversity in Los Angeles County Cultural I…
As part of the celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the cast of Deaf West’s 99-seat-to-Broadway production of Spring Awakening was invited to perform at the White Ho…
The Guardian: Â Theatre needs our love! Â On Wednesday 18 November, theatres, amateur groups, arts companies and audiences from across the UK and beyond will take part in the second #Lov…
Broadway World: It’s been an extraordinary journey for Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening. First produced in a 99 seat theater, it was then remounted in the l…
Kenneth Branagh’s Theater Company is simulcasting their London production of The Winter’s Tale on Thanksgiving, November 26. The play stars Branagh and Judi Dench. Mo…