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To find talent for a new play in development for the past year, casting has been outsourced at the Center Theatre Group. Kimber Lee’s Idaho-set drama, “different words for the sa…
Phantom Projects Theatre Group is still on the hunt for young talent.
The Los Angeles-area youth theater company produces a four-show season at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Art…
A local college student won Los Angeles’ top amateur musical theater competition Sunday, Feb. 16, by dodging a pitfall that snagged her competitors, according to casting directors who …
Organizers are hoping a new theater festival set to be held in Los Angeles this fall will help create a touring network for Latino theater companies.
Such companies have sprouted up in citie…
It seems people love to turn movies into musicals—movies that have no business being musicalized! Now, the beloved ’80s cult classic “Back to the Future” is going to …
Our first peak at the Off-Broadway show “Heathers: The Musical” at the Snapple Theater Center on Feb. 19 left us wanting more. The show is based off the 1988 high school crime dr…
With previews scheduled to begin March 8, the news that Diahann Carroll—set to star as Lena Younger—was dropping out of the Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” …
Monday, Feb. 17 is Presidents Day (and also Washington’s birthday!) Contrary to popular belief, the holiday means more than just getting a day off work. It’s meant to celebrate G…
Want to follow the career path of James Franco? There’s a class for that.
The actor, who has achieved success in film and television in addition to his varied artistic pursuits, has en…
The resurrection of Burbank's Colony Theatre is now complete.
After facing a money crunch in 2012, the 270-seat theater—one of the few mid-sized venues in the Los Angeles-area&md…
This week we want to catch the screening of “Titanic” at the Los Angeles Theatre; get “Up Close” with Jonathan Groff; take some workshops at the L.A. Scripted Comedy …
The U.S. Senate sent a reassuring message Jan. 17, when it allocated $146 million to the National Endowment for the Arts despite reports in the autumn of 2013 that the NEA could be cut by as…
Actors and artists aren’t known as an entrepreneurial bunch, but they’re going to have to learn. That’s according to Adam Huttler, founder and executive director of Fractur…
Ever dream of singing Jean Valjean’s songs? Or bringing the tragic Fantine to life? Now, actors don’t have to move to New York or join a tour for a chance to perform in a stage p…
A conversation about new book “Nothing Like a Dame”; a free screening of Chinese drama “To Live”; a movie costumes exhibit at FIDM; the release of “Killing Kenn…
We all remember our big firsts—first kiss, first dance, first nailed audition. Now on Monday, Feb. 10, hear about similar famous milestones in the lives of Broadway stars like Nick Bla…
A Noise Within will continue its expansion, with three new grants flooding the coffers of the Los Angeles-area classical repertory theater company.
The company, which in its 2011-12 se…
Increasingly, the spring months don’t just bring flowers—they also bring stars. To Broadway, specifically, and 2014 is shaping up to be as starry as anything van Gogh could have …
Calling all young playwrights.
If you're 19 or younger, the Blank Theatre will consider your play for its upcoming Young Playwrights Festival. Winning plays will be presented for a weekend r…
The following is the second part of a two-part series, outlining the basics of Actors’ Equity touring under the Short Engagement Touring Agreement (SETA). Read the first part on Produc…
Time to dust off your old manuscript. Los Angeles' Brimmer Street Theatre Company opened the window Monday for submissions to its play development program.
The program, called Breaking Groun…
“Frozen” fans might just melt with excitement over the official announcement that the newest addition to Disney’s beloved animated roster is in early plans to make its way …
Theater actors can breath a little easier.
Young people attended Broadway theater in New York last season in record numbers, according to a new report by the Broadway League.
Producers have …
Face it, the industry is filled with beautiful and talented people, and when you’re stuck doing a project together for weeks—or months—at a time, sparks tend to fly. Whethe…
Broadway is about to take on a whole new sound when it welcomes hip-hop to its Palace Theater stage come May 26 for “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” a musical based on tunes and lyrics pe…
