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IN THE NEWS
This October, the Santa Monica Playhouse will host The BFF: BINGE FREE Festival of THEATRE"the first-ever two-week Santa Monica Fringe Festival featuring LA and Santa …
round one of a filing by plaintiffs in the Asner, et al versus Actors' Equity Association against the national stage actors and stage manager's union, Actors' Equity Association, the Nationa…
Actors' Equity Association, the national trade union that represents actors and stage managers, has announced that " for the first time in its 103-year-history " the organization is endorsin…
IN THE NEWS
Antaeus Theatre Company has vacated its NoHo home of nine years and begun the process of transferring to its new site at 110 E. Broadway in Glendale. The company has u…
by HALEY HUNTLEY
Deb Debbie Deborah doesn't make sense. Jerry Lieblich's play skirts logic, defies pattern, and resists resolution. It knows it's doing those things, though, and you catc…
interview by MICHAEL VAN DUZER
This season, Theatricum Botanicum presents a new production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Ellen Geer, the company's Artistic Director and director of the…
by HOYT HILSMAN
14, 2016 is D-Day for intimate theater in Los Angeles. That's the deadline Actors' Equity Association (Equity) has set for the implementation of its new Agreement that mo…
[PRESS RELEASE]
Actors' Equity Association (Equity), the national union of professional stage actors and stage managers, announced the launch of a new website www.EquityWorksLA.com.
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IN THE NEWS
Rubicon Theatre in Ventura announced its 2016-2017 season with the theme "Stories that Matter, " beginning with A Christmas Carol (Dec 7"24), an original adaptat…
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
Theater
The Latino Theater Company offers a glimpse of Evelina Fernández's "Mexican Trilogy: An American Story,"
6 pm ' Downtown ' Info
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by NICHOLAS PILAPIL
"So they created a discriminatory 'Asian American Only' Group to fight lack of diversity in Hollywood and other plays???? How can people cry discrimination when they tur…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Williams could arguably be dubbed an American Shakespeare " a playwright who, in capturing a singular vision of the mid-twentieth century American South, also conve…
by NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL
week marked the 92nd birthday of James Baldwin, the literary great whose work still remains a highly relevant reflection and critique on race, sexuality and the …
IN THE NEWS
Raising money while having some fun, TreePeople opens its 14th season of Once Upon a Canyon Night this weekend, Aug 12 & 13, featuring a reading of The Best Man…
All photos courtesy of Ojai Playwrights Conference/Jacob Sidney.
by JULIO MARTINEZ
southeast corner of 5th and Olive in Downtown LA was destined to house performing venues, despite an awkward history of venue names and production agendas. In 1885, pio…
Monday, August 22, a town hall event will be held at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) for members of the Greater Los Angeles theatre community. The purpose of the meeting will be to exa…
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…
IN THE NEWS
Road Theatre Company in NoHo reveals its 2016-17 season, beginning with Edward Albee's The Play About The Baby, starring Co-Artistic Directors Sam Anderson and Taylor …
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER
house lights fade and a polite young man from the Odyssey Theatre's staff takes his place on a corner of Nina Caussa's set " a spare evocation of a Long Island summe…
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
the lights came up on Church & State at Skylight Theatre, I felt pressure to stand up and clap. This was no ordinary do-I-or-don't-I standing ovation dilemma " p…
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER
Patterson's plays have been called dark, provocative, edgy, and disturbing. Though, typically not in the same sentence. All of these adjectives remain apt in describ…
IN THE NEWS
After a relaunch of Cabrillo Music Theatre, the company's Board of Directors announces new staff and board leadership, and a relaunched 2016-2017 season of shows. Taki…
Los Angeles-based The Ahmanson Foundation has approved a major grant to LA STAGE Alliance, the region's arts service organization for stage work. The grant is for a two-year project in suppo…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
July 21, 2016, Actors' Equity Association, the national stage actors/stage managers' union, filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit Ed Asner, et al v. AEA, in the Cali…
