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Allan Miller was going to play Ben in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound on Broadway in 2009 when the production was canceled. Now he's finally doing the role, at La Mirada Theatre.
After a medical and academic career, Marthe Rachel Gold returned to the theater as a writer. Her onetime director John Frank Levey, now a prominent casting director, stages her "Lake Anne."
Radar L.A. explores contemporary puppetry with Janie Geiser/Erik Ehn's "Clouded Sulphur,", Basil Twist/Yumiko Tanaka's "Dogugaeshi" and Gisele Vienne/Dennis Cooper/Johnathan Capdevielle's "J…
Bette Midler in John Logan's Sue Mengers show replaces "Coney Island Christmas" at the Geffen...Furious Theatre returns to the Carrie Hamilton with new artistic directors...
Orange County barged into the Ovation Award nominations this year, with 3-D's "Parade" and Chance's "Triassic Parq" receiving more nods than any other single productions.
Tom Jacobson is museum executive by day, playwright by night. He blends both of these in "Gallery Secrets," Chalk Rep's site-specific production at the museum where Jacobson works.
Terrence McNally is the subject of a four-day fundraiser for Skylight Theatre, featuring parties, programs, panels, co-produced by Sheryl Kaller, the director of McNally's next play.
Erica Schmidt, the director of "Humor Abuse" at the Mark Taper Forum, discusses her longstanding collaboration with the solo show's performer, Lorenzo Pisoni.
Director Simon Levy is reviving Larry Kramer's angry polemic about the early days of the AIDS crisis, "The Normal Heart," at the Fountain. Tim Cummings stars as Ned Weeks.
Mike Stoller and his wife helped rescue Pasadena Playhouse from financial ruin. Now the Leiber and Stoller revue "Smokey's Joe's Cafe" is revived at the playhouse by director Jeffrey Polk.
Three solo performances -- Luis Alfaro's "St. Jude," Roger Guenveur Smith's "Rodney King" and Trieu Tran's "Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam" -- are opening in repertory at Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix. Note: The Arts Fix will be on vacay next week. ...Continue Reading
Here are photos from the 2013 Ovation Awards nominations announcement on Monday.
Center Theatre Group lost one "Funny Girl" but should check out the 3-D Theatricals version with phenomenal Nicole Parker, in Fullerton. Also, the Colony's "Breath and Imagination."
Ovation Awards nominations this year reflect a clear domination by companies in areas south of downtown LA. The most-nominated show, 3-D's revival of "Parade," is a product of Orange County.
Larry Eisenberg, directing "Awake and Sing!" at Group Rep, says his experience acting in the play more than30 years ago elevated his skills as an actor beyond what he had learned in classes.
Steve Julian's "What Kind of God?," about an episode of priestly sex abuse, arose from the Hollywood Fringe's "Altarcations," which arose from an episode of censorship in Julian's youth.
The LA Gay and Lesbian Center's LA premiere of "The Laramie Project -- 10 Years Later," staged by Ken Sawyer, mixes the actors up with the audience, town meeting-style.
Paul McCartney and Tom Hanks are expected to participate in Shakespeare's Center's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" fund-raiser...Kevin Stidham plays Sherlock Holmes...Looking back at tiny Califor…
"Lost Girls" marks the return of playwright Jobn Pollono ("Small Engine Repair") to Rogue Machine, just as he's also involved in a web series, a TNT series and the opening of "Engine" in New…
Director Richard Israel and actor Daniel David Stewart prepare for the West Coast premiere of the Appalachian-set musical "The Burnt Part Boys," at Third Street Theatre.
Daniel Beaty's "Breath and Imagination" explores the story of Roland Hayes,a pioneering African-American lyric tenor. Elijah Rock stars at the Colony Theatre.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix.
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.
A mostly-black "Death of a Salesman" at South Coast Repertory and an all-women's and cross-racial "Hamlet" at Odyssey Theatre demonstrate differences in non-traditional casting.
