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Albee spoke to the Weekly from New York, days before returning to London to assist with a new production of his play The Lady From Dubuque.
Greg Kotis, on his agri-eco farce, Pig Farm
Minus Ossie, Ruby Dee Picks Up the Pace
The new troupe Plus One Productions' debut restages Richard Greenberg's 2002 Broadway drama Take Me Out -- about an African-American baseball star who comes out of the closet -- for a black-…
One man is dragged, screaming, down a portal to hell. A boy takes a baseball bat to his abusive father. A mysterious body stuffed into a trunk provokes the most unsettling metaphysical quest…
For all the latest new theater reviews and stage listings, see below.
Our list of the top 10 plays in 2013 is this week's theater feature.
This is the last posting of Stage Raw at this loc…
A "beguiling interactive adaptation" of the Alladin story is this week's Pick of the Week. It features with Bruce Vilanch and Ben Vereen, among others. Warm feelings also for the just-closed…
On New Year's Eve, around midnight, City Hall will disappear.
First, the iconic 85-year-old art deco skyscraper will morph and vibrate with neon patterns, as its windows, walls and edges e…
Saturday, Dec. 21
Everything Is Terrible! Holiday Special 2013! is at the Echo tonight at 7 p.m. This comedy event promises to be "the tackiest winter wonderland imaginable," offering a com…
The artistic directors of Southern California's regional theater powerhouses came together Monday night on the Pasadena Playhouse stage for what was billed as a panel discussion "on the stat…
If you waited until L.A. Opera season started to purchase your tickets to season-opener Carmen this year, you were in for a rude awakening: Prices for the cheapest seats for Bizet's classic …
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht find themselves on the Santa Monica Pier for Paul Sand's Kurt Weill at the Cuttlefish Hotel -- a cabaret that critic Paul Birchall describes as a "tour de force…
The holidays in L.A. are marked not by snow but by the heavy fall of holiday-themed shows into small theaters across the city. Multitudes of A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, and ho…
A Christmas Carol at Sierra Madre Playhouse crawls inside the head of Scrooge, and nabs this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also liked a "turbo-charged" A Christmas Carol at Zombie Joe…
A spooky, horror magic show, Todd Robbins' and Teller's Play Dead at Geffen Playhouse, is this week's Pick. A good review also for In the Heights presented by Teatro Nuevo Horizontes and Cas…
Choreographer Matthew Bourne has a reputation for audaciousness that precedes him. In America, the British choreographer is most well known for his production of Swan Lake. First staged at …
This week, a fountain at LACMA gets renamed and a Culver City gallery temporarily adds a basement.
5. Trolleys can make music, too
Futurist Luigi Russolo began his 1913 manifesto, The Art o…
Fionnuala Kenny's Elvis's Toenail takes us back to 1961 Dublin. Critic Neal Weaver found himself entranced by the classical strain between people and church. The production at Burbank's Sidw…
Steven Leigh Morris, L.A. Weekly's own head theater critic, has brought a Russian literary masterpiece -- Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita -- to Santa Monica with his stage adapta…
Lewis Carroll meets Charles Dickens in Daniel Rover Singer's play on the literati at South Pasadena's Fremont Centre Theatre, called A Perfect Likeness. Our critic Deborah Klugman enjoyed it…
"The thing that is so amazing about music," exclaims the excited voice over the phone, "is I feel that it is so much more immediate. ... It's just like ... I don't know, it's just like, I me…
This week's dance events include lost boys, the day of the dead, Susan Marshall live and two phoenices rising from the ashes.
5. Phoenix rising #1
Not sure what is more impressive, the fact…
An intense one-act about a showdown between a schoolteacher and a parent, Gidion's Knot, presented by Furious Theatre Company at the Pasadena Playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre, is this wee…
