60 stories from Engine 28
Engine 28 reporter Walter Ryce, on loan from the Monterey County Weekly, asks regular folks in downtown Los Angeles about their relationship to (or lack thereof) Los Angeles theater.
The performances of the Latino comedy troupe Culture Clash range from sketches to full-length plays, charged with political and social satire. The company is known for its irreverent approac…
Remixing New York's Under the Radar Festival for the West Coast, the RADAR L.A. Festival reflects a shift in contemporary theater, colliding international work with the Los Angeles theater s…
What was the big idea behind Engine28.com? E28 is about finding new ways of telling a story, training arts journalists, and engaging and interacting with the audience. The hope is that this …
I've shopped in pop-up stores and eaten in pop-up restaurants " but a pop-up newsroom? When my friends and colleagues Douglas McLennan of artsjournal.com and Sasha Anawalt at USC proposed th…
Lost Moon Radio is three fringe shows in one: ' A rock band doing comedy songs and parodies; ' A crack five-person comedy troupe; 'Â A touching yet comedic relationship drama between this …
Larry Blum seems like a very likeable guy. He’s carved out a unique career in Hollywood and New York, chronicled in this autobiographical one-man show. Every one of Blum's brushes with…
Hey, Slim (Justin O'Neill): if you want to nail this proto-punk mad-love classic by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, don't look down at your hands while you're playing guitar. Take more lessons …
Jon Armstrong, a fixture at Hollywood Fringe headquarters, was getting some lip from a fellow magician. "All he could do was prattle on about everything he was a master of. About how he coul…
Hallie Gordon, a Chicago theater professional who helped found and now oversees Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s program promoting theater among youth, delivered what might become …
Just when you thought Los Angeles' June theater festivals were wrapping up, it turns out the fat lady has a lot more to see before she sings. As RADAR L.A. and the Theatre Communications Gro…
You know that dream where you're standing naked in front of an audience? For author/actor Summer "Rain" Sinclair, it's a reality that's happened three times this week. Sinclair strips hersel…
A friend was recently at the playground with her children when a stranger began to explain in detail about how the end of the world was fast approaching. Talk about an uncomfortable conversa…
Orson Welles in 1937. Photo: Carl Van Vechten, courtesy Library of Congress How do you make Shakespeare edgy enough for the Hollywood Fringe? You resurrect a 75-year-old script edited…
About a dozen people learned more about sleep apnea, narcolepsy and cataplexy than they might have reasonably expected on a Friday night at a Hollywood Boulevard bar/improv comedy club. They…
* On every significant front"writers, directors, artistic directors, leading roles"the status of women in today’s theater is in dire straits. What is to be done to redress the situatio…
Ever wish there were more (well, any) TV shows about theater? Engine 28 is here with that answer " except it’s on the Web! In this premiere episode of Off Stage W ith Engine 28, Jesse …
If you've never hated the family that you also love, stand up. Now sit down, preferably in some water, because your pants are probably on fire. Almost all of us have, well, complicated relat…
Supertitles are introducing American audiences new worlds of theater but remain far from perfect. The future of American theater may be as much read as watched. Presenting organizations, fol…
Anyone who's ever worked in a cubicle will recognize the fluorescent-cool pecking order of corporate culture in Chelfitsch’s Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and The Fairwell Speech.Â�…
Theatre Communications Group celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. TCG is encouraging members to discuss the future of theater by exploring “what the field has achieved, the chall…
Tight combos rocking hour-long sets late at night in small spaces, on a street where you can quickly dash from one venue to the next, with booze always near at hand. For years, that was my a…
It's West Side Story meets The Karate Kid in the East West Players crowd-pleasing original musical, Krunk Fu Battle Battle. The Asian American theater company closes out its 45th season with…
A stiff but stylish drama inspired by the philosophical musings of Octavio Paz, the Latino Theater Company's Solitude attempts to imagine a Mexican-American existentialism but achieves only …
Given Julie Taymor‘s appearances at the Theatre Communications Group conference, Engine28 is going bicoastal, with impressions from some of us who’ve spent time with Spider-Ma…
