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by HAYLEY HUNTLEY
set for Sheila Callaghan's Bed, playing now at the Echo Theater Company, is a total mess. From the second you walk into the theatre, the set and all the play's props ar…
IN THE NEWS
Center Theatre Group and Cornerstone Theater Company have both been accorded $115,000 grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's (DDCF) 2016 Building Demand for…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Azadeh Ahmadibaseri and her husband, Mohammad (Mo) Faraji, are both in their early 30s, and, at the time we met, were celebrating their 43rd day of living in the U…
by CHRISTINA CAMPODONICO
I arrive at the apartment complex in Angelino Heights, via a winding drive that leaves me mildly disoriented, a woman is sitting on the building's ti…
[PRESS RELEASE]
Washington, DC " Today's creative economy gets a big boost from the arts, according to new data from the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Bureau of Economic An…
Betty, Please. LA theatre, drawn and quartered.
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IN THE NEWS
NBC 4's favorite weatherman is reviving his one-person show, An Evening With Fritz Coleman, on March 5 as a fundraising event for the Colony Theatre in Burbank. Unfortu…
So... Valentine's Day is coming up, but we realize it's a holiday that isn't loved by all. Maybe you don't buy into the pressures of Hallmark, or you don't enjoy being reminded of what…
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER
are relatively few musicals that spend much time on a construction site. There are fewer still that focus on the design, funding and fabrication of a building. Even …
A podcast where playwrights talk to playwrights about the things usually left unsaid. In a conversation that dives into life's muck, we learn what irks, agitates, motivates, inspires and -- …
by JULIO MARTINEZ
, Community Television of Southern California, first signed on the air on September 28, 1964, as an affiliate of National Education Television (NET). When James Loper ca…
IN THE NEWS
Ron House, co-creator of the monumentally successful farces El Grande de Coca Cola and Bullshot Crummond, passed away Friday, January 29. House had re-created his iconi…
by ED RAMPELL
-Theatre" gives form to the truism "truth is stranger than fiction" on the boards. Don. K. Williams, Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company's Associate Director, defines …
by NANCY KEYSTONE
never ceases to amaze me how the spark of an idea will fuel a journey beyond my imaginings. I was in Poland in 2009, which was the 20th anniversary of the Solidarity…
by MAUREEN LEE LENKER
, now making its West Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse, tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen " the first African-American Army Air Corps fighters " whose m…
We last featured a board we're cultivating on Pinterest of amazing set designs, so now I thought that I'd share another fun board that we're pinning with a huge variety of tips and …
by JULIO MARTINEZ
Theatre Group has extended its Community as Creators Project " engaging LA communities in the creation of live theatre " to Leimert Park in the southern area of L…
IN THE NEWS
LA Opera at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will launch its six-production 2016-17 MainStage season with Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth, starring Artistic Director Plácido Domin…
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER
days of rain in early January brought not the anticipated El Niño deluge, but a cleansing shower. By the afternoon of the third day, the threat had passed. The cl…
LA STAGE Alliance is traveling to neighborhoods throughout the city for LOOKING FORWARD, a series of six community forums taking place ​in February and March, to discuss the challenge…
by MURRY HEPNER
"Yes, but do you do shows for adults?"
asked this question, or a variation of it, a lot. So I'm here to dispel the myth that doing Theatre for Young Audiences means that…
THE THING IS
Hollywood has a new outlet for live theater. The Basement at Mack Sennett Studios will inaugurate its new space with the premiere of Salome, "a radically queer reinventio…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival town hall and workshops dates are now available.
Organizers of the Hollywood Fringe Festival have announced the details of this year's Town Hall & Workshop…
by STEVE B. GREEN
idea for Timeshare came during a short-lived survival job I had selling timeshare memberships. Like many, our family business had imploded during the "Great Reces…
by DWAYNE COLBERT
"So, you boys know what's going on in the news, right? No? Uh, well… go back outside and play then."
was me in the summer of 2014 trying to tell my sons about …
