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Jami Brandli's bad breakup with a guy in Boston led to a breakthrough with a play. An earlier version called The Sinker went well in St. Louis, but now she has re-written it and retitled it …
He speaks, he signs, he reads lips, and he had a key role in There Will Be Blood in his professional acting gig. Now Gallaudet grad Russell Harvard plays the pivotal role of Billy in Nina Ra…
Results of a Yale survey of 700 US theater managers -- including 73 from the LA area -- started the discussion of the meaning of "professionalism" in the theater Tuesday at KPCC. It was …
Marya Mazor has some personal memories about the fall of Communism in eastern Europe more than two decades ago. The Arab Spring two years ago revived those memories and led her to Caryl Chur…
Les Wieder drives up Pacific Coast Highway in order to receive his best writing brainstorms -- including his inspiration for his play Voices and his idea of how to rewrite it. Focusing on in…
Men sit alone, earning a living at their computers. Not dramatic enough for a play? Then you haven't seen Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at South Coast Rep or Doris Baizley's Sexsting at the S…
Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival is celebrating its 20th year of presenting solo shows, mostly but not necessarily by and about women. This year it's at two venues -- the Renberg Theatre…
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Center Theatre Group and its production of Waiting for Godot was the biggest winner of Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards for 2012, followed by Fountain Theatre and its production of Cy…
Terry Johnson directed End of the Rainbow, which is now literally about Judy Garland, in contrast to an earlier incarnation. It opens this week at the Ahmanson. Johnson also discusses some o…
In the early '50s, a young man and woman of different ethnicities and religions overcame their parents' objections and married. Now their daughter Lisa Phillips Visca has written a play …
Given the blessings of the Janis Joplin estate to create a musical tribute show, Randy Johnson devised a plan to honor her alongside the women singers who influenced her -- and to avoid the …
You remember Betty Hutton? If not, Nuttin' But Hutton seeks to restore the reputation of the wacky '40s musical movie star -- not in a biographical play but in a tribute to the songs she ado…
The British are coming in the next Ahmanson season, but so is Porgy and Bess...Matthew Arkin of SCR's The Whale offers his tips for gaining hundreds of pounds...Dany Delany in The Parisian W…
Is autism a disability or just a difference? It's one of the questions raised in Ken LaZebnik's play about two young people who fall in love. Both of them are on the autism spectrum. Jacquel…
Is Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession about prostitution and hypocrisy, mothers and daughter, or all of the above? It's themes and some personal parallels are revealed by director Robin Larsen …
Growing up in Missouri, the death of a friend inspired Jules Willcox to follow her heart into theater. Now Willcox is playing Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, who dies and must then choose between an …
For Jennifer Leigh Warren, "having it all" doesn't mean the same thing as it did for Helen Gurley Brown, whose book of the same name provided the title for the musical that Warren is in at L…
Steve Yockey has found a way to get four successive "premieres" for his new plays -- the National New Play Network. His Wolves is completing the final chapater of its four-pronged" premiere"…
A year after director David Cromer brought Our Town to LA, he returns with Nina Raine's Tribes, an eye-opening play about a family who tends to drown out its one deaf member, at the Taper. M…
Latino Theater Company's Melancholia examines a recent LA veteran's struggle to survive PTSD after he returns home. Initially produced in 2007, it's begin revived in LATC's Basement Gall…
The director and four of the actors who shook up the LA small theater scene in 2002 with a rough and raw production of Trainspotting, the play about Scottish heroin addicts in the '80s, are …
On the occasion of International Women's Day, a baker's dozen of women in LA theater comment on their hopes for LA theater in the coming year. READ MORE
Rubicon Theatre's venue undergoes a radical reconfiguration for Our Town...The death last week of Bonnie Franklin, a Rubicon veteran, is intensifying the emotion in the Our Town cast...L…
One night, a long-held secret erupted in Buddy Farmer's brain. He rushed to the computer and wrote Alabama Baggage, which examines how a family friend had sexually abused him 45 years earlie…
