1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
As Traces, the Canadian-based circus, returns to LA at the Music Center, performer Bradley Henderson discusses the group's focus on performers as real people.
Peter Pan never wanted to grow up, but Michael Lluberes' Peter Pan: the Boy Who Hated Mothers re-tells the familiar Barrie story with an eye on the grown-ups in the audience. The West Coast…
The death of Dale Griffiths Stamos' father led her to look into the possibility of communications with the dead. The play One White Crow is the result.
Howard Teichman, artistic director of West Coast Jewish Theatre, discusses his decision to concentrate on Jewish theater as he directs I'm Not Rappaport.
Alistair Hunter, who produced and directed Brecht on Brecht for Scorpio Rising Theatre in the '70s, returns to the revue at Atwater Playhouse. READ MORE.
As Group Rep turns 40, co-artistic directors Larry Eisenberg and Chris Winfield balance many considerations as they extend the legacy of the company and its late founder Lonny Chapman. GRT i…
Katselas Theatre Company becomes Skylight Theatre Company...La Mirada's next season includes a second Onstage production, Floyd Collins...Cristal Gonzalez discusses her trilingual assignment…
Lindsay Nyman, co-writer and co-director of Theatre for the Blind's new play Yesterday's at Promenade Playhouse, talks about the methodology of working with blind actors.  The ti…
Dany Delany plays a DC power broker in Beau Willimon's new The Parisian Woman at South Coast Repertory. She discusses the production and other highlights of her stage career, which has conti…
A veteran of many bad student productions gets to direct The Miracle Worker -- first at a high school and now, professionally, at Actors Co-op. Based on these experiences, he testifies that …
Dan Dietz was born in Los Angeles County but spent most of his life in Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Florida before returning to LA to write for a TV series -- and to see his American Misfit, his…
Susan Clark, a Canadian who has amassed many stage and screen credits in LA and elsewhere, is about to perform for the first time with Latino Theater Company, in Canadian playwright Judith T…
"American" in a play title often signals "metaphor ahead." The new and compelling American Misfit at Boston Court is about the concept of American revolution and uses both a 1790s frontier s…
Are you reading this on an electronic device in a public place? Look up for a moment and see if Jeff Folschinsky is taking notes. His satirical play Low Tech, at Eclectic Company, examines p…
Busy Beth Malone and Kevin Earley, in his LA comeback, are playing the leads in La Mirada's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. They discuss the changing interpretations of their characters in …
A Chorus Line at Musical Theatre West re-unites director/choreographer Roger Castellano and musical director David Lamoureux, who went through most of his career without much love for A Chor…
One Night With Janis Joplin breaks Pasadena Playhouse's box office record...Michael McKean has the title role in the Geffen's Yes, Prime Minister...Broad Stage and Laguna Playhouse seasons..…
When Paula J. Caplan first looked at the effects of war on families in Shades, America seemed to be at peace. The first reading of the play occurred in September 2001, a few days before 9/11…
Married theater veterans and TV stars Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are appearing in Sharr White's "Annapurna" at the 99-seat Odyssey Theatre -- as well as "19 other things apiece." That'…
Playwright Sharr White, fresh off the critical success of his The Other Place on Broadway, answers a few questions about his Annapurna and its stars at the Odyssey Theatre, the real-life mar…
Ron Eldard has been a fighter most of his life -- even literally, as a playground fistfighter and as a Golden Gloves boxer. Now the actor is tackling Teach in David Mamet's American Buffalo …
Sierra Madre Playhouse hired Nancy Youngblut, who played a Klingon commander in Star Trek -- Deep Space Nine, to direct David Rambo's God's Man in Texas. She finds it difficult to tone d…
A landmark weekend for large-scale site-specific dance in LA included the premiere of Stephan Koplowitz's Red Line Time in the Red Line subway and a revival of Trisha Brown's Roof Piece at t…
Engine 31, a pop-up website sponsored by the LA-based USC Annenberg School, covered the final weekend of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Severa…
Four years to the day, without a prolonged conversation -- were they still friends? Allen Barton turned his recent reunion with a friend after that much time into a play, Years to the Day, w…
