Blinn's Short Stay at Carranor Made Lee Meriwether Cry
Lee Meriwether returns to her stage home, Theatre West, in William Blinn's play about twilight-years lovers, "A Short Stay at Carranor."
Lee Meriwether returns to her stage home, Theatre West, in William Blinn's play about twilight-years lovers, "A Short Stay at Carranor."
Five small bits for your LA arts fix.
Amy Brenneman, a pre-LA Cornerstone Theater vet before she became a TV star, makes her full-fledged LA stage debut in Gina Gionfriddo's "Rapture, Blister, Burn" at the Geffen.
The first annual meeting of The Producers League of Los Angeles was held tonight at the Los Angeles ...Continue Reading
Another look at Southern California-set plays includes three productions in San Diego -- Sideways, Double Indemnity and Second City's take on the city, plus Open House in LA.
The long-awaited Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will open in October. Programming has been announced in its two theaters.
The green rooms behind LA stages vary as much as the theaters themselves. We take a look at some of LA's most distinctive backstage retreats.
Steve Stajich's Auto Parts at Fremont Centre consists of loosely-related short plays set in or around cars, with the sequence determined at the beginning of each performance.
The Radar L.A. lineup will include the use of three of LA's vintage movie palaces...International City Theatre's season...Skylight honors McNally...West Coast Ensemble history...
Independent Shakespeare Company's "free" Griffith Park fare not only attracts bigger audiences than most LA theater, but the audiences are younger and more diverse.
Zombie Joe's, which gave new life to playwright Matthew Sklar's creative dreams, is reviving his Captain Dan Dixon vs. The Moth Sluts from the Fifth Dimension.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix. THEATER GOES VIRAL Last Friday, Val Kilmer posted this photo ...Continue Reading
Vanessa Bell Calloway portrays author Zora Neale Hurston, of Harlem Renaissance fame, in five performances of Letters From Zora -- In Her Own Words, at Pasadena Playhouse.
Shakespeare's original As You Like It is in Griffith Park and a countrified musical version, Tanglin' Hearts, is at Theatre 40. Chalk Rep's Lady alfresco Lady Windermere's Fan is at Clark Li…
Director Jeremy Lelliott of Coeurage Theatre had to figure out how to evoke contemporary standards of evil in sections of Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day.
Peggy Webber's California Artists Radio Theatre has a large catalogue of plays on CD but is running low on funds and radio outlets.
Director Richard Kuhlman fell into depression in June, but since then, directing the new musical farce Greeks 6 -- Trojans 5 has had restorative powers.
French Stewart TV series delays Stoneface at Pasadena Playhouse...Hershey Felder's Rockstar at Laguna...Joyce Carol Oates at Theatricum...Gary Austin of Groundlings fame...
The president of the Sierra Madre Playhouse board, Estelle Campbell, writes about the company's new focus on fare for older children and families.
Susan Rubin discusses her eve2, in which she questions why Eve gets so much blame. The play is set in Bellevue Hospital during a power blackout. Mark Bringelson directs, at the Bootleg.
Joni Ravenna's Beethoven and Misfortune Cookies tells the fact-based story of Kabin Thomas, who was fired from his teaching job for cursing in class and moved to the world of reality TV.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix. FREE DISCO LESSONS I really never thought I'd write the ...Continue Reading
Daniel Corral's Dislike examines the "vortex" evident from the comments posted about Justin Bieber's "Dislike", YouTube's most "disliked" video. It's part of REDCAT's NOW Festival.
Applications are being accepted for TCG's and Doris Duke Foundation's (R)Evolution grants, designed to stimulate audience engagement and community development for TCG members.
The Pasadena Playhouse is filling its summer with some unorthodox shows, including Cirque-a-Palooza's circus and variety evening, The Road to Palooza.