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Each week or so I'm updated on happenings in the LA theater scene by way of the latest postings on LA Stage Times. In the past I've always found the news to be informative and even gratifyin…
The Author at the Kirk Douglas raised big questions about how theater artists and audience deal with inflammatory subject matter such as porn and suicide. Meanwhile, Wrinkles offers a very d…
As I am sure is the case with many of you reading this blog, I have to maintain a day job to support the family and supply my theater habit. I am fortunate that working as a Director of a Co…
From Rent to Jamaica Farewell and Gigi Perreau's A Night With the President, it's all here in this week's LA STAGE Insider.
Shakespeare's classic comedy Twelfth Night opens this weekend at STAGEStheatre with a few new twists. The original tale follows Viola, a shipwrecked young maiden disguised as a man, dodging …
You might call director Elina de Santos an Arthur Miller groupie -- not to trivialize, but to celebrate, her lifelong devotion to the works of the man she considers America's greatest playwr…
Connie Chats with 33 Variations actors Samantha Mathis and Don Amendolia at the opening night party, takes a listen to Linda Eder's new album and reveals a workshop of a new version of Pal J…
As I am sure is the case with many of you reading this blog, I have to maintain a day job to support the family and supply my theater habit. I am fortunate that working as a Director of a Co…
From Rent to Jamaica Farewell and Gigi Perreau's A Night With the President, it's all here in this week's LA STAGE Insider.
“Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.” That is a modest start for the classic tale of the world's most famous fabricating puppet, first serialized in a magazine from 1880…
In Southern California the Phantom Projects Theatre Group has a long history of touring schools with important issue-driven productions. Over the past decade Phantom has developed a solid re…
Director Lisa Peterson describes her latest show, In Mother Words, as a "compilation or quilt play" made up of 15 short pieces by 15 different writers, all describing what it means to be a m…
LA-based composers Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay (Showtime's Weeds) tackle two distinct worlds in
On a gorgeous winter day in California, flames from a gas fireplace provide warmth and a relaxing ambience inside the renovated Craftsman-style bungalow of playwright/actor Nick Salamone, in…
Madonna or whore? Three big musicals examine this stereotype of young women: Dangerous Beauty, Gigi and Rock of Ages, with mixed results.
Actor Len Lesser, 88, best known as Uncle Leo in the hit television show Seinfeld but also a veteran of 500+ film/TV appearances and stage roles, including recent appearances at A Noise With…
This production of Jump/Cut will be the West Coast premiere. Jump/Cut was first produced in Washington in 2003. Think about that. This play is eight years old and has never been produced on …
The Hollywood Fringe Festival will announce a new headquarters venue and discuss Fringe guidlines at a town hall on March 2.
Marc Masterson, artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville since 2000, will join South Coast Repertory as its artistic director. His Louisville theater, like SCR, specializes in new p…
The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that applications are now being acce…
LA Stage INSIDER highlights upcoming S.T.A.G.E. benefit, the stage premiere of Midnight Express, the debut of new Third Street Theatre and the history of movie star Sal Mineo as stage actor…
So that you and I are on the same footing, I will tell you everything I know about The Author, a play opening at the Kirk Douglas on Feb.17 as part of Center Theatre Group's DouglasPlus seri…
Celebrities traveled to Renaissance Italy for the opening night of Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse including stars of the 1998 movie, Jacqueline Bisset and Rufus Sewell, plus dir…
This production of Jump/Cut will be the West Coast premiere. Jump/Cut was first produced in Washington in 2003. Think about that. This play is eight years old and has never been produced on …
