The Katrina Comedy Fest Celebrates Triumph in Disaster
Rob Florence's The Katrina Comedy Fest concentrates on more upbeat stories from the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. It's in the Hollywood Fringe, at the Lounge.
Rob Florence's The Katrina Comedy Fest concentrates on more upbeat stories from the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. It's in the Hollywood Fringe, at the Lounge.
Here they come. In LA theater, summer is now known primarily for two annual phenomena — lots of ...Continue Reading
Brandon Baruch's Me Love Me, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, examines the idea of making love to your own clone.
Producer Joseph Stern and director Jillian Armenante take on Jackie Sibblies Drury's challenging exploration of racial genocide, "We Are Proud ..., opening Saturday at the Matrix Theatre Com…
Kemp Powers, on his real-life inspiration for "One Night in Miami…," a Rogue Machine premiere at Theatre/Theater in Los Angeles opening Saturday June 8, set in a hotel room where new heavy…
Celebration Theatre's 30th anniversary and final show at its current Hollywood home...South Coast Repertory's upcoming 50th anniversary season...Theatricum Botanicum's "Royal" family affair.…
Dámaso Rodriguez, co-founding artistic director of LA's Furious Theatre Company and new artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, helms a farewell remounting of Matthew …
"Mom, Put Your Flask Away," a farcical exploration of issues of family and independence by first-time playwright Eliana Pipes, opens at Blank Theatre in Los Angeles Thursday, June 6, as part…
No theatrical scenic designer is likely to attract a bigger audience this week in the Los Angeles area than award-winning John Iacovelli, whose work can be seen in productions at the Mark Ta…
In "BOB: A Life in Five Acts," a serio-comic play by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb ("boom"), a man born in a fast food restaurant embarks on a journey to achieve greatness. Opens Saturdat at LA's Ech…
Connie Chats Opening Night at "Sleepless in Seattle--The Musical," at the Pasadena Playhouse through June 23.
Police interviews with the female astronaut at the heart of 2007's headline-grabbing NASA love triangle scandal inspired "Starcrosser's Cut," a drama by writer/director Joseph Tepperman and …
Presentational performances, aimed straight at the audience, are not only in the musicals The Scottsboro Boys, Sleepless in Seattle, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Next tor Normal but als…
Photos from opening night of Ionescopade at the Odyssey Theatre
Tammy Minoff describes the evolution of her play Perennial, at Sidewalk Studio Theatre.
At the opening of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Connie chats with Wade McCollum, Joe Hart, Greg Louganis, Adam shnkman, Sondra Currie, Josh Sussman.
Shakespeare's popular comedy morphs into Troubadour Theater's A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream, while New American's Theatre's version features Greek Gypsy fairies.
Jeff Arch, who wrote the Sleepless in Seattle story, spent more time working on the stage musical version, now at Pasadena Playhouse, than he spent on the movie.
Leslie Caron in Laguna Beach...Cirque du Soleil's Totem in three site next fall and winter...Production Company returns to the San Fernando Valley...Ron Bastone's Hollywood Actors Theatre
Bets Malone and Robert Townsend discuss performing Next to Normal at La Mirada Theatre with their director Nick DeGruccio -- in the wake of personal losses.
It's curtains for Downey Civic Light Opera after this season -- and more than four decades. The final show, Paint Your Wagon, opens Friday.
More than 30 years late, a new version of Ionescopade returns to the Odyssey, again directed by Bill Castellino.
David Thompson, who wrote the book for the Kander/Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys, discusses the show as it's about to open at the Ahmanson Theatre.
LA theater folks remember Lee Melville. A memorial service is scheduled for June 24 at the Colony.
Such plays as The Fantasticks, Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers and Timon of Athens revel in artifice. Cops and Friends of Cops and Long Way Go Down minimize it. And Trainspotting...