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Von Bach at the Fremont Centre Theatre and Absolutely Filthy at Sacred Fools are full-length parodies that take us to unexpected places. Plus a few additional comments on somewhat related sh…
Wooster Group audiences are accustomed to radically deconstructed texts of older plays. But Richard Maxwell of New York City Players, who directed three of Eugene O'Neill's Early Plays for W…
Mike Daisey re-wrote his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs after it was embroiled in controversy over fabricated embellishments. Now the edited, 2.0 version will introduce th…
Matty Simmons, the original CEO of National Lampoon, is returning to the fold with his production of Sketches From the National Lampoon, at the Hayworth Theatre. Richards Levinson, who has w…
Playwright Gary Lennon and director Chris Fields were born in the same hospital, and both of them grew up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. A search for the common ties of "home" i…
The departure of Guillermo Avilés-RodrÃguez from the artistic director job at Watts Village Theater is rocky, as the company announces a new season...Tony nominee Wilson Milam directs Ra…
It's the beginning of the end of Andak Stage, the small NoHo company run by Dakin Matthews and Anne McNaughton. But first, Kitty Swink stars in a revival of Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blue…
Bootleg Theater produces or co-produces a lot of theater, but it has expanded over the last three years into a locus for indie bands, puppets, spoken word, dance, even "lady arm wrestlers" a…
Albert Alarr, a Juilliard-trained director of TV soaps, is staging his first musical, the Sondheim/Furth Company, which he compares to Shakespeare's Tempest. It's at Crown City Theatre…
Incompleteness is a basic part of writing for theater, says Charles Duncombe. Others make their own contributions to each individual production. City Garage is opening his Caged on Saturday.…
Paul Zaloom of Beakman's World fame explores the trials and tribulations of being white in America, assisted by his old-school dummy Butch Manly and "White-Man." Yes, the "idiotically titled…
Some reviewers are ignoring the central theme of the Geffen's The Gift, so as not to give away a plot twist. In a play of ideas, isn't the theme more important than a plot twist? Two Canadia…
Von Bach is back. And that legendary undead creature, originally from the 19th century, is none too pleased with the way his image has been treated -- or by celebrity culture in general. His…
Elliot Shoenman's new A Heap of Livin', at the Odyssey, examines a famous country singer (Lawrence Pressman) whose days are numbered. His daughters (Jayne Brook, Didi Conn) must make decisio…
I'll Be Back Before Midnight has been called the most frequently produced Canadian play. It has been produced in many cities in other countries -- but not LA, until now, as Colley directs it…
Lynn Manning is the new artistic director at Watts Village Theater Company...LATC will present Marcus Gardley's the road weeps, the well runs dry, in the fall...Sutton Foster and Andrew Rann…
An economically strapped town decides to become a reality TV site in Paradise, a new bluegrass musical by Cliff Wagner, Bill Robertson and Tom Sage. Wagner, a reality TV veteran from the Old…
Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith returns to the Geffen with the US premiere of The Gift. Although it's still set in LA and the Caribbean, Murray-Smith and director Maria Aitken disc…
Now that Richard III's bones have been brought to light, casting doubt on his humped back and withered arm, will stage interpretations of him change? Several Shakespeare specialists in the L…
The vision of Lorraine Hansberry has steered Andi Chapman's theatrical career recently. First Ebony Rep, where she is associate artistic director, produced A Raisin in the Sun. Now Actors Co…
Australia's Circus Oz made a big splash in a short run at UCLA in 1984, as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. Its venue then was the smaller Freud; now it's returning to the bigger Royce Hal…
DeeDee Rescher is BFF with Shirley Valentine -- the unhappy English housewife who flees to Greece in Willy Russell's one-woman show. Rescher played her in Long Beach in 2004 and 2005, in Lag…
David Henry Hwang's Chinglish takes the massive subject of US-China relations and makes it specific, personal, human -- and very funny. It's at South Coast Rep. Car Plays ended a brief run n…
Luis Valdez's I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges, a pointed comedy about the treatment of Latinos in Hollywood, was introduced at LATC in 1986. Now it's being revived at Casa 0101. …
Noel Coward's 1925 Fallen Angels was initially scheduled to open at the Pasadena Playhouse three years ago, but it became the first show to fall victim to the playhouse's temporary bankrup…
