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Directors Lab West wrapped up its 2013 sessions with Velina Hasu Houston, Carefy Perloff, Sean Daniels, Anne Cattaneo and the Burglars of Hamm, among others.
On Days 5 and 6 of Directors Lab West, the Labbies spoke to Elizabeth Doran, Janet Roston, Diane Rodriguez, Luis Alfaro and Vincent Paterson, among others.
Pamela Dunlap stars as an out-of-shape middle-aged flamenco student in Stephen Sachs' Heart Song, at the Fountain.
Jozanne Marie wanted to tell the story of her troubled youth from a stage, but how? Charlayne Woodard and Geoff Rivas helped, and the solo play Beautiful is the result.
More on Lee Melville's death...A Noise Within and Actors Co-op seasons...Humor Abuse replaces What the Butler Saw at Taper...Miles Playhouse's past...
Marketing a nearly three-hour play about the people who were on opposite sides of a 1941 pogrom isn't easy, but Kiff Scholl and other cast members drummed up support for Our Class.
Watts Village's Meet Me @ Metro series returns to Watts, somewhat scaled back, as Lynn Manning returns as the company's artistic director.
Directors Lab West continued with two days of dance, masks, myths, site-specificity, stage managing, social media, young audience taboos and a preview of Scottsboro Boys.
Ian Ruskin is performing solo shows about labor leader Harry Bridges and revolutionary hero Tom Paine at two venues over two months.
Directing Brian Friel's Translations for Coeurage Theatre at the Lost Studio, Ryan Wagner looked at original 19th-century maps in the New York library.
Writing The Princes' Charming, a satire at Loft Ensemble, saved Mitch Rosander's life, he testifies.
LA STAGE Times columnist Don Shirley and contributor Jessica Koslow are nominated for LA Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards.
LA STAGE Day's hottest topic, diversity, is the subject of LA STAGE Watch.
Several participants in Directors Lab West write impressions of the event's opening weekend.
In Brian Golden's Cooperstown, at the Road on Magnolia, the denizens of a diner measure what the induction of Jackie Robinson into baseball's hall of fame means in their own lives.
Take Toulouse-Lautrec, the women who were his subjects, and mix with contemporary artists. You get A Fried Octopus at the Bootleg Theater.
Annette Bening will revive Ruth Draper monologues...LA Opera launches Off Grand series at Broad Stage...Memories of Joe Yule at the Gayety...
Michael Peretzian was a big-time Hollywood literary agent, but now he concentrates on directing plays, including Christopher Shinn's Dying City at Rogue Machine.
Antaeus always uses two casts per production, so why not two co-directors? Armin Shimerman and Geoffrey Wade helm the company's The Crucible.
Zayd Dohrn, the son of Weathermen radicals, writes plays, including Long Way Go Down, which is about immigrants without papers, at Art of Acting Studio.
Director Tim Dang applies colorblind casting to his revival of Chess for East West Players.
As a child, Heather Chesley was entranced with the breaking of the fourth wall in Our Town. Now she's breaking it in another Wilder play, The Matchmaker.
The first half of the 20th century was tough -- look at Our Class, Parade, Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Royale.,
Proposals for a Greater Los Angeles Producers League are being formalized at a series of meetings.
Composer Jason Robert Brown discusses the evolution of Parade, which plunges Fullerton's 3-D Theatricals into darker subject matter.
