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"Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow"...Donald Freed plays on that famous phrase from Macbeth in the title of his new Tomorrow. And that makes one "tomorrow" for each of the companies collaborat…
At least two of the three women who make up DOMA Theatre's Dreamgirls dreamed of being in the show as they were growing up. Now it's opening in the intimate Met Theatre, with Tyra Dennis, Co…
Rogue Artists Ensemble ventures into erotica with Songs of Bilitis, adapted by Katie Polebaum from the 1894 writings of Pierre Louÿs, who initially claimed that these were ancient Greek t…
24 Hours was nominated for a 2004Â Ovation Award as best musical in a smaller theater, but its producer Scott Mlodzinski thought an updated, rewritten, re-titled version might be right fo…
Women dominate Valley stages these days. Check out these modern motherhood plays -- Chalk Rep's site-specific Mommune and Road Theatre's first musical, The Baby Project, at its new Magnol…
This year's LA STAGE Talks series will kick off with a session on what professionalsim in the theater means in LA and beyond, on March 19. Other topics this season will examine artistic phil…
The West Coast premiere of Philip Ridley's Tender Napalm is taking place in a 44-seat configuration within an East LA warehouse space that could seat 600. Equity denied permission to first-t…
Randy Reinholz, the longtime artistic director of Native Voices at the Autry, is a veteran actor but hadn't performed with Native Voices. That's now changing, as he takes the Autry stage in …
The new Pantages season include the return of The Book of Mormon and the LA debut of Once...Julie Myatt is South Coast Rep's new playwright in residence, thanks to a Mellon grant...Cornersto…
Boundaries between the professional and the personal are breached in Jeff Bernhardt's Therapy, about three therapists and a patient who changes them. An incident in Bernhardt's life when he …
Choreographer Oguri read Huckleberry Finn in Japanese and asked jazz master Wadada Leo Smith to write and perform a score for a dance inspired by the novel. The result, called Notaway: Quest…
Eddie Borey, a Vietnamese-Irish American, wrote Christmas in Hanoi, currently being produced by East West Players. It depicts a Vietnamese-Irish American family visiting Vietnam, as ghosts h…
Mark Schwartz, who produced Menopause the Musical, returns with Divorce Party the Musical, which -- like Menopause --Â uses familiar pop tunes with re-written lyrics. It's a collaboration…
Brad Alexander's See Rock City and Other Destinations follows travelers in vignettes threaded together into what director Joanna Syiek describes as "half song cycle, half book musical." Colo…
Did Laurey and Curly from Oklahoma! grow up to be Ma and Pa Joad from The Grapes of Wrath? The question arises from current productions of the former at Musical Theatre West and the latter a…
Pregnancy and the intense feelings that accompany it can produce more than actual children -- they can also result in a play. Here comes Dorothy Fortenberry's Mommune, which Chalk Rep is pro…
An FBI agent played by Greg0ry Itzin, posing as a teenage girl, lures another middle-aged man played by JD Cullum, into an online sting. So goes Sexsting, at the Skylight. Playwright Doris B…
Andrew Kuchlewska's Complete examines the use of language in the self-help community via two linguists who participate in a seminar. Jennifer Chambers, who directs the production at the Matr…
Peter Gil-Sheridan's What May Fall at Theatre of NOTE follows the aftermath of a terrible accident on its witnesses. For Mary Jo DuPrey, who's directing it, it evokes the importance of conte…
James Conlon's LA Opera contract renewed...Gigi Bermingham in Master Class at ICT...Graham Hamilton on Tender Napalm...Earl Carroll's LA career recalled...READ MORE
Michael Michetti is moved to tears by moments in Frank Galati's adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which Michetti is directing for A Noise Within. He explains why. READ MORE
For more than a decade, Ken Roht has contemplated turning Strindberg's Miss Julie into a gay man, Miss Julien. Now it's happening, in a somewhat environmental production called Ken Roht's Mi…
World Theatre Day is on March 27. Dario Fo, the Italian satirist, will deliver the annual message. READ MORE
A single, 40-something New Yorker tries to acquire a baby in Lori Jaroslow's musical The Baby Project. It will christen Road Theatre's new second space on Magnolia Boulevard at the NoHo Seni…
Road Theatre's new second space is ready for its close-up at the NoHo Senior Arts Colony on Magnolia Boulevard. It has plenty of restrooms, we're promised. READ MORE
