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Richard Broadhurst's Benched was inspired by a Sacramento woman and received its first production there, with Eddie Jones playing one of the roles. After a decade, Jones has instigated a sec…
Actors' Equity, currently renting in Hollywood, buys in NoHo...24th Street Theatre receives $110,000 Irvine grant for community productions...Danielle Cintron talks about Weird on Top...Will…
Kristy Edmunds is midway through her first season as executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA. As she plans her next season, she discusses her gradual education in the ways of LA and its …
Becca Wolff's direction of Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake has given her a new appreciation of social media's role in changing our attitudes toward time. The play opens Saturday at …
Marshall Pailet was among three collaborators who imagined what the events depicted in Jurassic Park might be like from the dinosaurs' point of view. Now Pailet is directing the West Coast p…
The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, a drama about the making of the landmark porn film, arrives in LA, near the epicenter of the adult film industry. Directed by Jerry Douglas, the actors who play …
Judd Hirsch, playing the title character in Freud's Last Session at Broad Stage, discusses the doctor and Darwin and the subject of playing many Jewish roles -- which have included, besides …
Marc Bamuthi Joseph hosts eco-festivals in underserved parts of American cities. In his red, black & GREEN: a blues, these festivals are represented in an installation on stage, where th…
Is Black History Month dead in the bigger LA theaters? Why wasn't Tracey Scott Wilson's superb The Good Negro, now at the Hudson Mainstage, snapped up by a larger LA theater? Both 24th Stree…
Ruby Wax -- an American who became a well-known TV personality and comic in the UK -- tackles her own mental health problems in Ruby Wax: Out of Her Mind, at the small Edye space at Broad St…
LAb²â´, the new experimental project of 24th Street Theatre, makes its public debut this week with Mike Kenny's Walking the Tightrope, a play about a shared grief between a girl and h…
Ben Moroski initially resisted writing a solo show about his own life, and being specific about the details. But now he has written and performs This Vicious Minute, which focuses on the six…
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's most-nominated productions of 2012 are Jitney, Silence! The Musical and Waiting for Godot, with five nods each. The most-nominated company is Center Theatr…
La Mirada Theatre will produce a Spring Awakening for audiences of 199 seated on the stage...Troubadour Theater revives A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream for the Falcon and La Mirada.…
Cabbies are the subjects of TeAda Productions' in-progress Global Taxi Driver. A staged reading will be held Saturday at Inner City Arts. READ MORE
CAP UCLA imports Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, which depicts Ganesh trying to re-claim the use of the swastika from the Nazis, to the Freud. It's a "devised" work by Back to Back Theatre Co…
David Wiener, best known for Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, returns to an earlier play in a very different style with Cassiopeia, at Boston Court. It was inspired by personal communic…
Meredith Monk's On Behalf of Nature is enchanting, but hardly a call to environmental action. Its premiere was part of CAP UCLA, the new UCLA Live, which offers very short runs and faces com…
Annie Abbott looks back at immigrant grandmothers, her childhood in New York, her first Equity job, her dating experiences as a widow. She believes she has found her storyteller's voice in G…
Veteran actor Bruce Gray doubles as a director for Theatre 40. He also doubles as a citizen of both the US and Canada. So he has consulted Theatre 40 on its recent selections of Canadian pla…
The celebrated composer and performer Meredith Monk brings her vocal ensemble to UCLA this weekend for the premiere of On Behalf of Nature. She says she would like to deliver political messa…
Steven Robman, who directed four plays at the Taper in the '80s and will return there next fall, is about to make his debut as an LA 99-seat theater director with Kathryn Graf's A Snake Can,…
Book of Mormon and Wicked can both claim box office records at the Pantages...Hollywood Fringe Festival and Directors Lab West begin registration for the 2013 sessions...Jo Bonney to stage M…
While the Boeing company is in the news this week, it's Boeing-Boeing -- the '60s farce -- that's opening Saturday at La Mirada Theatre. "The bones of the play are magically intertwined," sa…
Theatre Movement Bazaar returns to Three Sisters in its series of Chekhov-inspired performance pieces. This new adaptation, Track 3, emphasizes the music. It opens at the Bootleg tonight and…
