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Sinatra sang plenty of Christmas songs. In Christmas My Way at El Portal, two men and two women interpret those songs, as well as some of Sinatra's other hits within a holiday context. It's …
The Colony's next show will go on, thanks to the success of the extended current show, The Morini Strad...Sideways moves up from Ruskin to La Jolla...Jane Kaczmarek and Gregory Harrison at t…
Some of the costumes for Troubadour Theater shows are among LA's most elaborate, yet the many quick changes and all the dancing in Troubie shows requires considerable flexibility from design…
In-school classes and workshops are the favorite form of educational activities offered by theaters that were surveyed by Theatre Communications Group. READ MORE
Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande, 19, appears in the title role of A Snow White Christmas, a panto at Pasadena Playhouse. So far her career appears charmed, except for those agonizing red-carp…
Ever been to an office party that seems to last, say, 17 years? Bob's Holiday Office Party is entering its 17th season, this year at Pico Playhouse. But audience members don't have to make c…
NoHo Senior Arts Colony, a new and partially subsidized housing development, features a professional theater that the Road Theatre Company is about to occupy. The partnership might signify a…
Alex Garza remembers his maternal grandmother and also plays nine other characters in Abuelita's Christmas Carol. He's performing it for the first time outside his home state of Texas this w…
The bigger LA theaters decided to do holiday productions this year. But none of 'em tops the Troubies' Rudolph/Doors stew. CTG's Second City Carol is a fiasco, but could its Other Desert Cit…
Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer-nominated play about a Palm Springs Republican clan whose daughter has written a tell-all family memoir, had its West Coast premiere Sunday ni…
Before Sam Henry Kass moved to LA, where he worked on Seinfeld in 1994-95, he wrote plays in New York. Now he revives three of his one-acts under the title Siddown! One of them stars former …
Michael Kearns helped David Trudell turn stand-up material into a solo show that covers more intimate and potentially discomfiting material. His "In Heat in Hollywood Ho Ho Ho!" opens Saturd…
LA Opera pays off a big debt...Dámaso Rodriguez of Furious Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse named artistic director of Artists Repertory in Portland, Oregon...Remembering Gar Campbell. READ…
John Stark took his cues from his own experiences and from Stanislavski in writing Tom, Dick and Harry Meet Mary, which opens Friday at the Odyssey. READ MORE
Robert Foxworth plays a Reaganesque character in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, but in fact he opposed Reagan to the extent that he produced a radio series th…
Nonprofit theaters appear to be in recovery mode, according to a new report from Theatre Communications Group. READ MORE
Alex Egan was an intern as Circle Rep first produced Lanford Wilson's Angels Fall Off-Broadway. Now, three decades later, he has staged his own rendition of the play for Hollywood's Producti…
Fresh from winning an Ovation Award for Waiting for Godot, Hugo Armstrong tackles the role of Sam in LA Theatre Works' Lips Together, Teeth Apart -- a role that he doubts he would ever play …
LA County's annual holiday celebration at the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion features a wide variety of musical and dance groups, from Immaculate Heart of Mary Children's Choir to …
Cirque du Soleil's Iris, planned to last at least a decade in Hollywood, will leave town in January after only about 18 months -- apparently because it has been selling only about half its t…
Afia Fields, a Baltimore burn survivor at age three, didn't let her scars prevent her from seeking fame in Hollywood. She tells her story in I'm Dop3!, at Elephant Studio Theatre. READ M…
Los Angeles may not get a white Christmas, but the landscape is blanketed in A Christmas Carol " from the traditional to the twisted. READ MORE
Latino Theatre Company receives NEA grant, which will help support national festival and conference in 2014…Free holiday play readings include the traditional, eclectic, comedic, political…
Writers Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort explain the serious business of creating the funny for Center Theatre Group"The Second City's production of A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!, opening…
Matthew Maguire grapples with mortality as the Wild Man runs from the Devil in Maguire's solo show Wild Man in Rome, this week only at Son of Semele Ensemble. READ MORE
