689 stories from Footlights
Award-winning, nationally-touring company Four Clowns presents That Beautiful Laugh, conceived by Orlando Pabatoy, as part of the 3rd Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival this June. Set in a wor…
Careers in show business are often seen as the "over night success" story. Pretty girl, cute guy walking down the street, stopped by super (producer, agent, director) and suddenly they're st…
Every now and then the question arises, "What is theatre?" We live in an age where we have come to expect theatricality in virtually everything, from government to business, from sports and …
The first live theatre I ever saw was a production of Princess and the Pea. As soon as the lights went down I was transfixed…the story, the costumes, the handsome prince and of course the …
Native Voices at the Autry, America's leading Native American theatre company, continues its tradition of excellence, developing works by new and established Native American playwrights at i…
A Noise Within (ANW), the highly regarded classical repertory theatre company and a leading force in arts education, presents SUMMER WITH SHAKESPEARE, a three-week summer program for youth a…
Benefitting The Blank Theatre, honorary host Jennifer Garner will welcome (in alphabetical order) Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, Nicholas Brendon, Brianna Brown, Gordon Clapp, Dale Dickey, Daisy Ea…
KADM Productions has announced the West Coast premiere of The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend, Matt Morillo's raucous new sex comedy, for a limited e…
A WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BASED ON TRUE EVENTS Bruce Howard first went to Vietnam in 1965 to work for the Navy at Headquarters Support Activity, Saigon. He returned to Saigon in 1975 to secretly…
 WE NEED A PRODUCER'S ORGANIZATION A series of meetings has, been held over the past few months, where the focus of the discussions has been the need to formalize a producers organization…
written by James Mathers is a "whodunit" involving a police psychic, CAP'N, and his "paranormal guinea pig," Lieutenant LEO FLECK. Together they are investigating a string of brutal killings…
The world premiere of a modern day re-imagined signed/spoken version of the classic "Cyrano de Bergerac." Cyrano is a brilliant deaf poet hopelessly in love with Roxy, a beautiful hearing wo…
Award-winning theatre company, Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE), will present the West Coast premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s Roadkill Confidential: A Noir-ish Meditation On Brutality, open…
Each spring something like 500 advocates descend on Washington, DC for Americans for the Arts' annual Arts Advocacy Day. The event"actually two days, one day of training and issues brief…
