1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
When Brian Finney saw a light bulb in a Butoh performance in Australia, a mental light bulb switched on in his head -- of course, why not perform Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a solo show? F…
Two Hollywood legends -- director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler -- are the subject of the Falcon's Billy & Ray, which is about their work together on Double Indemnity. The pla…
A new Donald Margulies play will end Geffen Playhouse's 2013-14 season of nine shows...The Colony's final show of the season is on, although the company has yet to raise its previously annou…
Off-Broadway's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater dips its toe in LA theatrical waters with a revised production of Daniel Talbott's Slipping, which played at Rattlestick in 2009. Talbott i…
Married since 1984, Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman are known primarily for writing and acting gigs they've done separately. But more than 25 years ago, they began writing a play they could p…
In Red Line Time, dancers will perform for underground audiences on Frioday and Saturday, as the Red Line makes its rounds from downtown's Union Station to North Hollywood and back. Goethe I…
Trisha Brown has stopped choreographing, but CAP UCLA is offering an extensive retrospective of her work -- not only at UCLA but also at Getty Center and Hammer Museum. Diane Madden, one of …
Mercedes Floresislas was first ignorant of her son's deafness, then in denial about it. But after she discovered ASL, Deaf culture and Casa 0101's Josefina López, she wrote a play based o…
Cornerstone Theater's Lunch Lady Courage is inspired by Mother Courage but looks a little too much like an adventurous high school play. Two cheers for Charles McNulty's withering analysis o…
LA STAGE introduces LA STAGE Space, a new co-op warehouse in Atwater Village. Costumes, props, sets and equipment will be available, plus a lounge area designed for rehearsals, classes, work…
As the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays wraps up this week in Louisville, Engine 31 will offer online coverage of the event by a dozen journalists. It's the fourth in a string of…
Director Jessica Kubzansky has re-assembled most of her design team from Boston Court's 2012 production of The Children in Pasadena in order to work on The Phantom Tollbooth, produced by Mai…
Pasadena Playhouse's 2012-2013 season will include Stoneface and a new Bernard Weinraub play..Group Rep's season...Jennifer Pollono on Dirty Filthy Love Story, now at the Skylight...American…
Tim Byron Owen first visited his ancestral homeland of Ireland in 1972, s00n after the terrible "Bloody Sunday" -- and after also fleeing the mayhem of the violence at the Munich Olymp…
School lunches, the people who prepare them and the students who eat them are the subjects of Lunch Lady Courage -- loosely inspired by Brecht's Mother Courage, says playwright Peter Howard.…
It's a party, it's a play, it's a scene in a downtown LA loft. It's the site-specific Mindspin, brought to the West Coast by the Brooklyn-based UglyRhino. The group's executive producer Bryc…
Jennifer Haley's play The Nether explores a blurring of reality and virtual reality in the future. She discusses that subject with two of the actors in the play's premiere at the Kirk …
Aaron Kozak -- of the Texas Kozaks -- wrote Round Rock, an epic about the 19th-century Sam Bass Gang, and took it first to the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Now, after "major adjustments,"…
Two companies introduce newly configured spaces within their buildings to present productions about suicidal young men -- Spring Awakening at La Mirada and Melancholia at LATC. The Nether at…
Ghost Road Company's The Bargain and the Butterfly, inspired by a a Hawthorne short story, has been in development for nearly two years. Director Katharine Noon, sound designer Cricket Myers…
La Mirada Theatre is bringing the audience up on the stage for an intimate 199-seat production of the musical Spring Awakening. Brian Kite, the theater's producing artistic director and the …
On opening night of End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson Theatre, Connie chatted with Tracie Bennett's co-star Michael Cumpsty, Glee star Grant Gustin and producer Marty Krofft. READ MORE
Wilson Milam staged the premiere of The Lieutenant of Inishmore in England and later brought it to Broadway and Los Angeles. Now he's staging another Irish play, Robert Massey's Rank, at the…
Thirty years ago, Celebration Theatre was born in LA, and Sharon Lawrence saw her first play with gay characters in New York. It took a long time for the two of them to meet, but now they're…
LATC's spring season and Brimmer Street's Lounge season...Orson Bean in Smokefall...Jennifer Shelton plays "the feisty one" in Master Class at ICT...Earl Carroll Theater morphs into Moulin R…
