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Lilith, who arguably pre-dated Eve as the first woman in Hebrew folklore, unites playwright Aaron Henne's new theatre dybbuk and Kate Hutter's LA Contemporary Dance Company in a choreographe…
Pacific Resident Theatre brings Nora, Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House, to LA, with Dana Jackson directing. She and cast member Bruce French discuss how Bergman stripped…
After six decades, Long Beach's Musical Theatre West is the most prominent musical theater company in Los Angeles County. Executive director and producer Paul Garman, who has been with t…
Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities slates a Nov. 21 revival of Thoroughly Modern Millie -- and a revival of the company itself -- at the Warner Grand in San Pedro...The Colony raises enou…
Libby Letlow said good-bye to Blanche DuBois and picked up puppets. Now she's in her second production of the musical Avenue Q as a puppeteer, and she teaches puppetry. DOMA is producing Ave…
Former Ovation winner David St. Louis (for Parade at the Taper) is playing George, the suitor of the seamstress in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's his second …
Break the name down as you speak it -- IAMA Theatre Company translates to "I am a theater company." And, as the title of its current production Do Like The Kids Do might indicate, it's a com…
Director Scott Paulin writes about the late playwright Horton Foote and his one-acts on the occasion of Foote Notes: Two Plays About Harrison, Texas, opening this week at the Open Fist Theat…
Writer West Liang and director Justin Huen don't let cloudy weather in Hollywood lure them into indolence -- they turn to the theater. Liang's Their Eyes Saw Rain opens Saturday at Company o…
In LA theater, non-liberals are few and far between. Could it be because theater is the most extreme "public option" in the performing arts? But sometimes the result is "preaching to the cho…
Christopher Basile's new Green Card Theatre will concentrate 0n plays from other countries that are new to LA, beginning with German writer Ingrid Lausund's Slipped Disc. It opens Thursday a…
Native Voices' short play festival offers readings of six short plays on Saturday at the Autry. Among the playwrights are veteran Muscogee Creek playwright Bret Jones, Inupiak artist and the…
Jen Bloom was house manager at New York's Vineyard Theatre during the premiere of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive. Now, 15 years later, she's directing the play for the new Santa Monica…
Chris Rock at LA Theatre Works...Pacific Resident Theatre to produce Bergman's Nora...A free LA Opera performance...Frédérique Michel discusses The Bald Soprano...The evolution of Drama-Lo…
Does King Kong really prefer the intimacy of a small stage to his better-paying gigs on screen? Adam Hahn may not answer that question, but he explores his obsession with creating a…
Jane Kaczmarek and Culture Clash's Herbert Siguenza are set to host the 2012 Ovation Awards on November 18 at the historic Los Angeles Theatre in downtown LA. Presenters are announced as wel…
Cornerstone Theater brings its Hunger Cycle to Inglewood for the premiere of Seed, Sigrid Gilmer's play set among LA's urban farms -- but with elements of magic and surrealism, says director…
John DiFusco has created a solo show, The Long Way Home -- Reflections on the Tracers Journey, about how he and other Vietnam vets transformed their stories into the acclaimed drama Tracers.…
Let's bring jobs back to American shores -- and that includes jobs in running seminars that will show Americans How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. The UK hit receive a USA adaptation at The…
LA STAGE Times Editor in Chief Deborah Behrens and columnist Don Shirley are nominees for the Los Angeles Press Club's 2102 National Entertainment Journalism Awards. READ MORE
David Melville -- best known as Independent Shakespeare's co-founder, actor and managing director -- has written a musical about an infamous murder that took place near his native turf in En…
The Colony has declared a fund-raising emergency. A collapse of this midsize company would be a disaster for LA theater in general -- a signal for others to do safe plays with small casts. B…
Black Women: State of the Union 'Taking Flight' arrives at the Skylight after success at Company of Angels in 2009. It's a series of six short plays written by, directed by and starring Afri…
From an an organic farm in North Dakota sprouted Damon Kirsche, the debonair musical theater and big-band star. He's currently playing Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, which is launching Musical…
Book of Mormon's weekly take of $2,246,093 sets a record...The Detective's Wife veers away from the Road...Long Beach Opera's season...Linda Gehringer discusses SCR's How to Write a New Book…
