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Mary Lou Rosato and Willie C. Carpenter play Miss Daisy and her chauffeur Hoke Coleman, who are "eyeball to eyeball and heart to heart"Â in Sierra Madre Playhouse's revival of Alfred Uhry…
Larissa Wise considers the difference between telling a story out loud and writing a story for a stage production. Her LoveSick is about to open at the Loft Ensemble. READ MORE
Kathleen Rubin had a director's personality, but she was in her 40s before she thought about developing her director's side -- after an acting teacher suggested it. Her current project is Ha…
Embarrassing experiences are usually unpleasant, to say the least, but talking about them later can be fun. So says Jennifer Sorenson, who first wrote about them on her blog and now turns so…
The liveliest theatrical hot spot within Greater LA right now might well be the Segerstrom complex in Costa Mesa, where you can sympathize with the addicts in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Mothe…
Don't make it funny, Michael Rothhaar's advises directors of comedies, such as Plaza Suite, which he's staging for Morgan-Wixson Theatre. A paradox? Let him explain. READ MORE.
A revival of The Rainmaker at Edgemar Center is the occasion for a three-way chat among director Jack Heller, Robert Standley in the title role, and Tanna Frederick -- who plays Lizzie and r…
Everyone in London's dramaturgical circles seemed to like Jemma Kennedy's The Grand Irrationality, but only in Los Angeles did she find a producer and director (Lynn and John Pleshette) who …
La Virgen de Guadalupe was missing from the Christmas theater season, but Latino Theater Company has found a new sponsor for 2013...Two of Celebration Theatre's former artistic directors nam…
Phaedra's Lust reworks the classic tale of forbidden love through the lens of modern stage conventions and subplot constructions, including an intense seduction scene. But it's still set in…
London's Cheek by Jowl company cuts the final lines from John Ford's 17th-century incest drama 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The company's associate director Owen Horsley, who's in charge of …
Gigi Fusco Meese pauses briefly between her former job at Musical Theatre West and her new job as executive director of Anaheim Performing Arts Foundation to stage Intimately Wilde at her ev…
Actor Andrew Schlessinger and director Martha Demson spent more than a year preparing the production of Eugene O'Neill's two-character one-act Hughie, now at Open Fist Theatre. Schlessin…
Would you believe two tourists from Florida traveled to more than140 LA theatrical productions this year? More tourists might discover LA theater if the discoverlosangeles website, LA touris…
Michael Philip Edwards was once chewed out by Athol Fugard in a restaurant. He remembers the South African playwright's words as he directs the alternating casts of Tracey Scott Wilson's dra…
Preparing to play Hattie McDaniel in Hattie...What I Need You to Know!, Vickilyn Reynolds visited the grave of the Oscar-winning actress in order to ask her some questions. Now, as she's abo…
The website Bitter Lemons and the program publisher Footlights are joining forces...LA Women's Theatre Festival prepares for its 20th anniversary...Apollo Dukakis discusses A Noise Within's …
"Hey kids, let's put on a show." But it's never that simple. Membership companies have to balance the members' wishes, the company's goals, the artistic directors' authority, public producti…
A Tom Waits song was the inspiration for Paul North's The Gambler's Daughter, opening Friday at the Eclectic. He chose a small Nevada burg, as opposed to Las Vegas, as the setting. READ MORE
The LA STAGE Alliance offices will be closed Christmas week through January 1, 2013. Likewise, LA STAGE Times will cease posting new stories after Friday, December 21 and shall resume Wednes…
We hope it isn't too late for Santa to receive these not-so-traditional Christmas wish lists from a dozen of LA's small theater companies. Most of these groups' venues lack chimneys, but…
Victory Theatre plans a 2013 season but still has to raise money for two of the three shows...CTG Writers' Workshop begins again...Andrew Vonderschmitt explains Long Beach Playhouse's storyt…
Some of the prominent independent publicists who promote LA's small and midsize theaters -- Judith Borne, Jerry Charlson, David Elzer, Libby Huebner, Sandra Kuker, Lucy Pollak, Phil Sokolof…
Keith Stevenson procrastinated while writing Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd., but he finally submitted it one day before the deadline for a reading at Pacific Resident Theatre. It became a…
LA theater had plenty of high points in 2012. Here they're organized by size of theater -- the big, the middle, the small. Also an account of yesterday afternoon at Broad Stage, where a …
