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In its first LA performance since the early 1950s, Kurt Weill's rarely produced social indictment of apartheid-era South Africa, Lost in the Stars, will be staged by A…
Below are the 2016 Ovation Awards winners! Congratulations to everyone!
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Best Season
CELEBRATION THEATRE
Bootycandy
Dream Boy
T…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
1950, noted stage and screen thesp Charles Laughton was about to go on the road with the four-person play Don Juan in Hell, which he adapted from the third act of Georg…
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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 a total of $500,000 to LA STAG…
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Theatre of Note in Hollywood has announced its 22nd Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, featuring more than 50 performers in an all-day, all-night extravaganza of c…
A podcast where playwrights talk to playwrights about the things usually left unsaid. In a conversation that dives into life's muck, we learn what irks, agitates, motivates, inspires and " u…
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LA theater vets Gregory Crafts and Jenn Scuderi Crafts have launched the venue management firm StageCrafts LLC, officially taking control January 1 of local theatre sp…
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Alexandra Billings has been set to host the 27th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, January 17 at the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center. Red c…
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Theatre Group has selected three local productions for the inaugural Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Block Party will remount Co…
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The City of Inglewood has awarded an Inglewood Growing Artists Performed Project (IGAPP) grant to playwright Henry Ong to stage his six-hour adaptation of the famed Ch…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
December 1949, just one week before Christmas vacation, the fifth grade classes of Eastmont Elementary in Montebello were given a special treat: a field trip to the hil…
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Members of L.A.'s "PRO-99" theater community continue to gather signatures to demand a new referendum on Actors' Equity's 99-Seat Theater Plan, which is scheduled to end t…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
It's been a terrible year, by every standard that snowflakes hold dear.
You don't have to live in the Atlantic northeast or in the mountains of California to be …
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER
approach of the holiday season brings the inevitable surrender of our local stages to the likes of Scrooge, Santa, the Grinch, George Bailey and those irrepressible …
n December 8, a judge dismissed the lawsuit Ed Asner et al vs. Actors' Equity Association, which would have prevented Equity from requiring Los Angeles 99-seat theatres to pay actors mini…
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The Geffen Playhouse will honor Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award-winning artists Quincy Jones and Mel Brooks at its 15th annual Backstage at the Geffen fundraiser, "…
A podcast where playwrights talk to playwrights about the things usually left unsaid. In a conversation that dives into life's muck, we learn what irks, agitates, motivates, inspires and " u…
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Group Rep opened its 43rd season with Phil Olson's premiere comedy, A Nice Family Christmas, with Broadway veteran guest artist Marcia Rodd, running through Dec 18 at …
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
*to be read in an Irish Brogue*
Dear Beauty Queen of Leenane,
It is Hayley Huntley and I'm writing from Reno on account of I'm still here leftover from Thanksgiving,…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Wednesday evening, LA STAGE Alliance and the Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles hosted an LA STAGE Talk (presented in partnership with California Lawyers f…
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Hollywood Fringe announces its 2017 Fringe Scholarships program, with awards now doubled from five to 10 scholarships, thanks to a grant from the National Endowm…
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
high school boyfriend broke up with me in a Barnes & Noble Starbucks a few days after my mom and I saw Jesus Christ Superstar. He delivered the bad news, we said go…
A podcast where playwrights talk to playwrights about the things usually left unsaid. In a conversation that dives into life's muck, we learn what irks, agitates, motivates, inspires and " u…
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Continuing the yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's extraordinary legacy, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles will explore the impa…
