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Artists frequently support their art with day jobs -- and some of those day jobs can be found on the managerial side of nonprofit theaters. Here are stories of two such Angelenos, Diana Wyen…
Michael Golamco depicts video game creators in Silicon Valley in his Build, opening tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. The LA-based Year Zero playwright uses a story similar to that of Pygmali…
Tentacle porn? Wacky sex farce? Steve Yockey (Heavier Than..., Very Still and Hard to See) is preparing us his quickly-written The Fisherman's Wife, in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Speakeasy in…
Meet David Tarlow and Ryan Maes, who converted management skills learned in part at nonprofit theaters into better-paying day jobs -- without forgetting their theatrical roots. Then meet Ste…
The 2012 Ovation Award Nominee Reception was held last Sunday night, October 21 at SIX01 in downtown Los Angeles. Nominees had the opportunity to meet each other, receive their nominat…
Prompted by a fifth grade teacher on New York's Lower East Side, the introverted Juan Francisco Villa surprised himself by spilling his guts about dark family secrets. Now he's doing it as a…
Evelina Fernandez's Faith at LATCÂ completes her Mexican Trilogy in fine form. It includes the trilogy's first scenes that are actually set in Mexico, before the action switches to the '3…
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Kappy Kilburn created and used to run the Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse readings series. Now she's returning to the playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre with Joe Musso's New Orleans-set Conk …
Rogue Machine is on a roll. Artistic director John Perrin Flynn hopes that the hits keep comin', starting Saturday with A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter. "It's a play that cuts acr…
1776 paints a portrait of Americans overcoming differences to work together. Is there anything we can learn from that in 2010? Director Nick DeGruccio asks this question as he stages the mus…
Jennifer Chang is a Filipina-American, and A. Rey Pamatmat's Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them is a play centering on a household of two Filipino-American siblings in a small town. Chang i…
Antaeus announces 2013 plays...Dates scheduled at Pasadena Playhouse for the briefly controversial Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo...the latest seedlings at Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse...Val…
If theater illuminates the human condition, can it do so without literal light? Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is about to answer that question with two productions of short pieces performed entir…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy has attracted much attention nationwide. LA's first sampling of it, In the Red and Brown Water, arrives Saturday at the Fountain, gui…
Greg Keller didn't have to do a lot of extra research to play the role of a young writer in Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, opening tonight at the Ahmanson. He's a young writer himself, as well as…
Gigi Bermingham is directing her first Antaeus production -- You Can't Take It With You. In some ways, she says, the eccentric family inside the play is like a close-knit family of the…
In part 2 of our examination of local box offices, we look at some of those in LA's small theaters -- Theatre of NOTE, Antaeus, EST/LA, Sacred Fools, Rogue Machine, Fountain and Boston Court…
In scaling back her epic screenplay to the dimensions of a one-person show, Joy Cha was able to focus on what was going inside her central character -- a Korean American nurse in the U…
Atwater Village looks so peaceful, but its theater is filled with war -- Circle X's premiere of Jim Leonard's Abu Ghraib musical Bad Apples and EST/LA's premieres of Nate Rufus Edelman's The…
TCG's annual report on the business of nonprofit theater shows cites a $1.94 billion contribution by these theaters to the US economy and attendance figures of 34 million, based on data from…
LA has already seen parts 2 and 3 of Evelina Fernandez's trilogy about four generations of a Mexican American family, loosely based on her own. Now Faith, part 1, is opening at LATC. It's se…
Jim Leonard fictionalizes the Abu Ghraib scandal to examine why soldiers in faraway combat zones might become abusers and torturers. A musical score by Rob Cairns and Beth Thornley facilitat…
How do you move forward in life? We can't ask Willy Loman for advice, but maybe Cat, the protagonist of Patricia Scanlon's Death of a Salesgirl, might be of some assistance? Scanlon and dire…
Boston Court's new theater season...South Coast Rep opens a new Santa Ana project thanks to $600,000 from Irvine Foundation...Paul Linke's Time Flies returns on its 25th anniversary...Kelly …
