LA STAGE INSIDER
Matrix Theatre Company's play of the year...Meet Me at Metro moves on...Recalling Corey Allen...
Matrix Theatre Company's play of the year...Meet Me at Metro moves on...Recalling Corey Allen...
Ryan Heffington's dance performance piece KTCHN, playing at the Mack Sennett Studios in Silver Lake, is inspired directly by the paintings of Nolan Hendrickson.
The stars came out in force Wednesday night for the opening of August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" directed by Phylicia Rashad at LA's Mark Taper Forum.
As Shirley MacLaine's ever-changing autobiographical retrospective approaches, think of La Mirada Theatre as a big living room.
Jane Press writes about memorable women from a century of her family history in My Mother's Keeper, at Electric Lodge.
Glynn Turman won an Ovation for a previous August Wilson role, but he thinks he's finally ready to tackle Wilson's work, in the Taper's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."
Restaurant tales are on the menu at Delicious Reality, a TeAda Production at Miles Memorial Playhouse.
Chance Theater presents The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project Ten Years Later in rep. Plus thoughts about a few other plays with gay characters.
Opening night photos for the world premiere of Marco Ramirez' "The Royale" at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.
How do you connect Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, written in 1936, to contemporary audiences? Director Arden Teresa Lewis believes she's found a way.
Theatre of NOTE and Theatre Movement Ensemble transform Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof into Hot Cat..
Teri Ralston played her first role at age 12 at Laguna Playhouse. Now she has returned there from New York to play Ouiser in Steel Magnolias.
CAP UCLA season to include Robert Wilson and Peter Brook works...East West season will revive the company's Beijing Spring musical...Goodbye, Gibson Amphitheatre...
Producer Andrew Carlberg, at age 28, works overtime to attract his generational peers to LA theater events.
Marco Ramirez's The Royale, based on the story of Jack Johnson, is an example of what he calls "naked theater." It's at the Kirk Douglas.
Lee Wochner's The Size of Pike fondly recalls a "lost" generation of men who knew how to handle situations in the great outdoors. It's being revived by Moving Arts.
In The Anatomy of Gazallas, Janine Salinas Schoenberg writes about a transitional home for young women that's run by a leader who also tries to evangelize for her religious beliefs. It's pro…
Mark Saltzman dramatizes the closeted side as well as the professional side of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart in the new musical Falling for Make Believe, at the Colony. He discusses the pro…
Falling For Make Believe is a masterful new musical about Lorenz Hart -- his homosexuality included -- by Mark Saltzman, at the Colony Theatre. Also glances at two shows about street turmoil…
Richard Pierce, the director of Neo Ensemble Theatre's local premiere of Mitch Albom's Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, had to bring a real tree to the stage of the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the P…
Jason Wells' The North Plan examines a dystopian government's intrusions into personal privacy via a small-town police station. It isn't necessarily a Republican government , but the play is…
Chromolume Theatre revives its production of James de Jongh's Do Lord Remember Me, drawn from accounts of ex-slaves who were interviewed in the '30s. Director Wilson Bell discusses the lates…
Rogue Machine's season...New American Theatre returns to the Odyssey...Shakespeare Center announces a midsummer Midsummer, one of at least four versions of the Bard's
Chance Theater in Anaheim is analyzing its first 15 years just as Tectonic Theater, in 2008, analyzed the first 10 years since the death of Matthew Shepard in The Laramie Project: Ten Years …
Vs. Theatre Company is about to open its new home, in the tiny space formerly occupied by Black Dahlia, with the premiere of Cops and Friends of Cops, by the company's literary director and …