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Plays or pastries? Danny Rothschild thought about those career paths, but Blank Theatre's Young Playwrigfhts Festival helped him make up his mind. His The Empty Man opens tonight.
Culture Shock LA and Versa-Style Dance Company bring hip-hop to Ford Amphitheatre this season.
The melody-loving Steven Cagan is seeing his Love Songs produced at the Attic, by Chromolume Theatre.
Janet Miller decided to create the first fully staged LA production of the musical A Man of No Importance, and a friend convinced her to start a theater company too -- Good People.
Jaime Robledo's first Watson play was a hit for Sacred Fools. Now a sequel, Watson the Dark Art of Harry Houdini, opens, with Robledo again directing and with another Ryan Johnson score.
The Hollywood Fringe Festival isn't just for fresh faces -- it's a place where some shows get second chances.
As a boy, Graham Bowlin found cowboys reassuring. But they're somewhat darker characters in his play Rodeo Town, part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
LA STAGE Times won two honors in the LA Press Club's annual journalism awards.- Don Shirley's LA STAGE Watch column was named best online entertainment commentary.
Peter Lefcourt's The Assassination of Leon Trotsky is subtitled "A Comedy." Joel Swetow and Murielle Zuker play actors who are in a play about Trotsky and Frida Kahlo.
ModRock, a new jukebox musical at El Portal, pits the rockers of Wembley against the mods of Stepney in 1965 London, explain producer Tom Coleman and director Brian Lohmann.
Radar L.A.announces preliminary talent and Sep 24-Oct 6 dates...Looking back at Kent Skov and his LA Connection improv comedy group
Max Friedlich writes about the process of developing his play Black Ice, both at the Powerhouse Theater Apprentice Program and at the Blank, where it opens tonight.
The Geers play the Cavendishes, who were representing the Barrymores, in the Kaufman/Ferber comedy, The Royal Family, at Theatricum Botanicum.
Henry Ong's Sweet Karma, at GTC Burbank. is a fictionalized account of the story of Haing Ngor, the Cambodian doctor turned Academy Award winner turned murder victim.
Diane Samuels' Kinderstransport returns in a radio theater production by LA Theatre Works, marking the 75th anniversary of the pre-World War II rescue of Jewish children from Europe.
LA's theatrical producers begin to organize two leagues -- one for small producers in small theaters and another for producers in midsize theaters. They may eventually merge.
Michael Shaw Fisher 's Exorcistic is about a theater company that's mounting a parody of The Exorcist. It's part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, at the Open Fist.
Comedy requires a sense of balance -- witness Yes Prime Minister, Neva, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Bob: A Life in Five acts. Plus the LA debut of A Man of No Importance.
Janet Roston is choreographing revolver, the last production Celebration Theatre will produce in its somewhat problematic (the pole at stage left) space on Santa Monica Boulevard .
A theater-trained Hollywood writer re-enters the stage with a musical about TV sitcom maids, The Real Housekeepers of Studio City. It's part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Musical Theatre Guild moves to Santa Monica...Avery Schreiber Theatre to close but Schreiber name to move...Prometheus at Getty...Cirque-a-Palooza in Pasadena...Actors Forum history
Nicole Acton completes three years as a writer at Blank Theatre' s Young Playwrights Festival with her Survival Strategy. She has a connection to its subject, burn survivors.
Alina Phelan is thinking about the recent death of a friend as she portrays the woman who finds a Dead Man's Cell Phone, in Sarah Ruhl's play, at International City Theatre.
Aaron Lyons has been considering tackling the solo version of Shel Silverstein's The Devil and Billy Markham for eight years. It arrives, finally, as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Jefferson Mays, opening in the US premiere of Yes, Prime Minister at the Geffen, discusses some of his career highlights and the power of transformation on stage. .
