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IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group celebrates 50 years at the Mark Taper Forum with a 2017-18 season that Artistic Director Michael Ritchie describes as "five plays that represent t…
Garry Marshall, film and television writer, director, and actor " and founder of LA STAGE Alliance member organization, The Falcon Theatre " has passed away at the age of 81, at 5:00pm on Tu…
by NADRA NITTLE
Tira Palmquist began writing her play about homeless youth, she didn't plan to include a transgender character. As she studied homelessness, however, Palmquist learned th…
This is the second part of an interview feature by Darlene Donloe. Read Part I.
This is the second time the show has been in Los Angeles. It was at the Lillian Theater. Is this th…
by DARLENE DONLOE
Dolphin is sitting inside the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, watching intently as workmen put the finishing touches on the lights and set for the musical, Recorde…
IN THE NEWS
Ojai Playwrights Conference announces its ninth season, Aug 4-14, featuring new works by playwrights Robert Askins, Jon Robin Baitz, Aziza Barnes, Bekah Brunstetter, D…
United FORlando, an evening concert and conversation presented by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and the Los Angeles LGBT Center in memory and support of the victims of …
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
Johnny and June Carter Cash in Walk the Line to The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys, the musical biography is familiar fodder for storytelling. As neither screenplay no…
THURSDAY, JULY 14
Art Walk
Self-guided tour and open house for 40+ art venues in Downtown LA, incl. commercial galleries, museums, and non-profit spaces.
6pm â— Downtown …
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…
On 7:00 P.M. this Sunday in Culver City, LA Women's Theatre Festival will be taking over the Ivy Substation (home of The Actors' Gang) for a series of excerpted works. This is the sixth annu…
IN THE NEWS
Venerable Long Beach Playhouse has not slowed down in its 88th year of production. Its eight-production, 2016-17 Mainstage season (dates TBA), begins with F. Andrew Le…
by JULIO MARTINEZ
Stock Market Crash of 1929 did not affect the Hollywood film industry, which flourished with the advent of talking pictures. But the early years of the Depression did t…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
PART I:
The National Stage Union is Sued (Yet Again) by Its Own Members
the showdown between the New York-based actors/stage managers union, Actors' Equity Ass…
[PRESS RELEASE]
Los Angeles, June 30, 2016 " Actors' Equity Association Executive Director Mary McColl issued the following statement:
Actors' Equity Association (Equity) remains disa…
IN THE NEWS
On Tuesday, June 28, Actors' Equity Association (AEA) published a statement regarding the ongoing Asner v. Actors' Equity litigation. The full text can be found in @ T…
[PRESS RELEASE]
Dear Equity Member and Los Angeles Theatre Community "
By now you have seen Equity's Press Release and letter to their members attacking actors for their efforts to pre…
by ED RAMPELL
play's the thing," says the melancholy Dane in the second act of Hamlet. But sometimes, the plays themselves are not the only thing that theaters offer. Rather, it's bec…
The following press release has just been issued by Actors' Equity Association.
Actors' Equity Association and the plaintiffs in the Asner vs. Actors' Equity litigation announced toda…
BEYOND THE FRINGE
The end of Hollywood Fringe Fest 2016 is upon us, but it's not the finale for a select number of Fringe shows chosen to extend their runs in conjunction with …
Betty, Please. LA theatre, drawn and quartered.
#5:Â Hot One
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by JULIO MARTINEZ
evening, a small but focused contingent of Los Angeles theater professionals gathered at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights to listen to and take part in a panel discus…
IN THE NEWS
For its opening salvo as the first resident theatre company at Greenway Court Theatre, the Not Man Apart Theatre Ensemble"led by new Co-Artistic Directors Jones Welsh,…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is coming to a close, so if you're frantically trying to decide what shows to see before the end, why not judge a book by its cover? As always, an eye-catchi…
