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No performers under age 60 are allowed in The Beat Goes On!, the latest musical production from Jackie "The Pink Lady" Goldberg. Writer/director/choreographer Cate Caplin is attempting to bo…
Saundra McClain, a stage veteran who moved from New York to LA in 2006, took a while to discover the LA theater community. But this month she's directing a more book-oriented version of the …
At the opening of David Mamet's November at the Mark Taper Forum, Connie chats with Theodore Bikel, Eric Idle, Raphael Sbarge, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Ritchie, Bruce Davison and cast member F…
Malik B. El-Amin is a convert to Shakespeare, and he's determined to convert others with his Game of Thrones-based approach to Julius Caesar at his new Griot Theatre of the West Valley in En…
The Mark Taper Forum's November and Ebony Rep's Fraternity examine the final days of disparate election campaigns, just in time for the final weeks of the 2012 campaign. David Mamet's Novemb…
MainStreet Theatre, Rancho Cucamonga's professional family-friendly company, has received its first Ovation Award nominations. Producer Mireya (Murry) Hepner hopes the recognition will help …
Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre, the NoHo grand guignol company, approaches its 20th anniversary -- not to mention yet another Halloween -- with its seventh play from Robert Riemer, The Fai…
Becca Godinez became an actress by performing in American musicals in her native Philippines. Then she immigrated to America, and now she's playing a Filipina American longing for home in Ra…
Diane Rodriguez a TCG veep...Judd Hirsch in Freud's Last Session at Broad...Katselas programs plays about black women...Hudson programs musicals...Former critic Wenzel Jones returns to actin…
Rocky Carroll, a veteran of August Wilson plays, hasn't been on stage since Wilson's Radio Golf in 2005, at the Taper. But the TV star (NCIS) is returning to the boards for Ebony Rep's LA pr…
Nate Rufus Edelman grew up in the vicinity of gang activity in northeast LA. Attending college in Ireland, he was attracted to the idea of writing about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Now…
Free round-robin "arts tune-ups" on a variety of topics will be offered to artists and arts groups at Glendale Library on Saturday Oct 27 from 10 am to 1 pm., sponsored by the LA County …
Ed Begley Jr. and David Mamet aren't necessarily on the same page in their personal political perspectives, but they are on the same stage, more or less, in Mamet's 2008 political comedy abo…
Just before she died in 1970, Janis Joplin was spotted at Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood. Now, writer-director Gigi Gaston and singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins hope that Joplin's spir…
What famous sculptor designed the first Ovation Awards? Who modeled for the Ovation Award statuette? Who got his job at the Grammys because of his previous management of the Ovations? READ M…
Jean-Michel Richaud spent boyhood summers in Provence, not far from the landscapes that inspired Van Gogh. But it was a new museum in Paris that turned Richaud into a Van Gogh devotee. Now h…
Fathers and daughters are the focus of Bart DeLorenzo's staging of Cymbeline at A Noise Within and Marc Masterson's rendition of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at South Coast Rep. Meanwhile, Lynn Not…
For Storytales, WordTheatre combines the micro-fiction of John Edgar Wideman, 30 well-known actor/readers, a score by Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll of the Cool Kids, the dance troupe Cu…
Brian Nelson's Overlooked examines an artist who hires a homeless man to serve as an installation. Better known as a screenwriter (Hard Candy), Nelson believes the story of Overlooked belong…
Veteran screenwriter Christopher Knopf ventures back into his younger years in Hollywood in his first play, The Red Room, especially focusing on an extravagant father who was a movie produce…
Jack Stehlin, directing and playing Brutus in New American Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, is thinking about politicians who seek to destroy their opponents, and a how a…
Pasadena Playhouse nabs lots of NAACP nominations... Pal Joey is out and La Razon Blindada is in the Rubicon's 2012-13 season, and Food Confessions replaces eXtras...Odyssey to turn out the …
What is the often politically-minded Actors' Gang doing as the elections draw closer? Sheridan's 1775 comedy The Rivals. The Gang's Tim Robbins and director David Schweizer -- who saw the Ga…
Larry Cedar, who's playing all the roles in Steven Tomlinson's American Fiesta solo at the Colony, discusses the pleasures and the perils of being the only actor on stage. READ MORE
Sanaa Lathan brings her rendition of the title role in Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark from New York to the Geffen Playhouse -- not far from Hollywood where the play is set. It's …
