This might be our favorite time of year... and no, not because everything is currently melting in Los Angeles. (Hello, accidental sun tan from walking in and out of Trader Joes.) The Kilr…
[PRESS RELEASE] Michael Seel, Executive Director of Boston Court Performing Arts Center, has announced he will be leaving the organization at the end of August 2016 to pursue other in…
FRINGE PODIUM Actress/author Michelle Jewsbury developed the one-woman show, But I Love Him, based on her own experience with domestic violence. Jewsbury's Domestic Violence Semin…
IN THE NEWS Latino Theater Company at Downtown's Los Angeles Theatre Center has garnered a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support capacity building activit…
[PRESS RELEASE] The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California announced today that Danny Feldman will be the theatre's new Executive/Artistic Director. Mr. Feldman will work closely …
interview by MAUREEN LEE LENKER Disrupted, currently making its world premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, is the first play from writer and memoirist Mary Anna King. King is the auth…
by CHRISTINA CAMPODONICO many, talking about ballet can feel like speaking in a foreign language. (Its mother tongue is French, after all). But choreographer and American Contemporary Ba…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival hosts a huge variety of different types of performances each year " solo shows, parodies, new musicals, cabaret and more " but sometimes, what really sticks out…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS June 8, the Chicago Reader published an exposé about a decades-old pattern of actor abuse at one highly regarded non-Equity Chicago company, Profiles Theatre. The…
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IN THE NEWS The 7th annual Hollywood Fringe Festival officially opened yesterday, following a week of previews. There were over 800 attendees at last night's 2016 Opening Night Pa…
In light of the recent Chicago Reader story regarding alleged incidents of abuse/harassment that have taken place at Profiles Theatre, we thought it might be appropriate to spotl…
IN THE NEWS Last week's Center Theatre Group release announcing the upcoming Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2016-2017 season made intriguing mention of the launch of Block Party: Celebrat…
by JULIO MARTINEZ 1986, I interviewed character actor King Donovan, who was in the midst of a bus-and-truck tour of On the Twentieth Century co-starring his wife, Imogene Coca. My per…
[PRESS RELEASE] The USC School of Dramatic Arts announced on June 8 the creation of an endowed professorship in stage management, established with a $1.5 million gift from Teresa and Byro…
[PRESS RELEASE] -acclaimed Japanese drumming group TAIKOPROJECT and Grammy Award-winning Chicano rock band Quetzal join forces to create an all-new musical sound with a quintessentially L…
interview by NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL What's in a name? A single word can come loaded with history, pain and intention " capable of being wielded as a weapon. It also carries the ability to…
by ED RAMPELL first play I saw in Los Angeles upon my return from Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, was Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, playing at the Odyssey Theatre through July 17. Thes…
ENSEMBLE SURREAL Sacred Fools Black Box Space is hosting two large cast revivals during Fringe Fest: Loft Ensemble, still renovating its new home in Sherman Oaks (former home of L…
he City of Conversation references political and cultural events that span three decades. Director Michael Wilson sought a device that would both ease the jolt of the time span between scene…
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER Early evening sunlight beats down with surprising strength as I pull into a parking space at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. May days are definitel…
IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group continues its 50-year sojourn in LA, announcing Kirk Douglas Theatre's 13th season, which includes: four premiere regular season productions, two …
by HAYLEY HUNTLEY up: "Cod, risotto, risotto." Jorge swings the plates from the kitchen to the busboys' table, clinking ceramic dishes on metal. Peter (the unofficial leader of the busbo…
NEWS This year's Hollywood Fringe Fest is underwriting five 2016 Fringe Scholarships, selected from nearly 40 applicants. In this debut grant, the winners are Disrupted, written a…