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Director Bart DeLorenzo's "Tarentino period" has ended, and he's on to the happy ending of Cymbeline at A Noise Within, where Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and actor Joel Swetow join in the discus…
Street dancers are strongly individualistic, notes Amy "Catfox" Campion, who runs Antics Performance. So how does she transform their solo breaking, popping and krumping moves into a theatri…
On opening night of Justin Love at Celebration Theatre, Connie chats with Adam Huss, who was cast in the title role late in the process. She also talks to artistic director John Michael Beck…
It's comedy tonight with two new plays:Â the Pasadena Playhouse's Under My Skin, which applies a human perspective to the health care debate, and Katselas Theatre's Focus Group Play, whic…
Sound designer John Zalewski is nominated for three Ovation Awards -- for A Wrinkle in Time, Peace in Our Time and The Children. He discusses his work on those projects and the principles th…
Tonight City Garage opens its T1 space at Bergamot Station -- not to be confused with Bergamot's Track 16 gallery, which the Santa Monica troupe used during the past year. The first producti…
Downey CLO's death averted...Faith, part three of Evelina Fernandez's Mexican Trilogy, opens Oct 19 at LATC...Gary Lamb of Crown City describes a recent medical emergency he encountered whil…
He's macho on the big screen. Off-screen, he's attracted to a man. So is his wife -- to another man. So goes the story of Justin Love, the new musical at the Celebration that's a collaborati…
Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser emerge from 300 episodes of series TV -- about half of them from The Nanny -- to enjoy the relatively luxurious schedule of writing and polishing a play. T…
The tiny musical Hey, Morgan! has eight Ovation Award nominations -- much to the surprise of its creators Isaac Laskin, David Richman and Matt Fogel, who used it to slyly comment on their ro…
Musical satires are breaking out all over -- none bigger than Book of Mormon, which is even more of-the-moment now than it was when it opened in New York. Xanadu is better here than it was i…
Downtown LA's new Grand Park will offer free events throughout the fall, including an October 6 aerial dance performance by Bandaloop, hundreds of feet above the park. READ MORE
Can the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore make sense to contemporary audiences? Eugene J. Hutchins, who's directing Sierra Madre Playhouse's version, decided to give the audience a mo…
Inspired by such disparate sources as South Park and Anne of Green Gables, Benita Scheckel became a lyricist. Her collaboration with Michael Upward, A Bend in the Road, is based on the latte…
Celebration Theatre's 16 Ovation nominations included 13 for its revival of The Color Purple -- more than any other show received this year. The news provided an ideal way to launch the comp…
Family audiences are now the top priority at 24th Street Theatre, which doubles as a community center. The latest example of this programming is the US premiere of the Mexican import Rome at…
Henry Murray's Three Views of the Same Object, at Rogue Machine, is now being staged by John Perrin Flynn, Hollace Starr and Brett Aune, after original director David Anspaugh left a week ag…
Actors' Gang's Elizabeth Doran is Pasadena Playhouse's new executive director...South Coast Repertory's new season at Studio SCR...With director David Anspaugh leaving Three Views of the Sam…
A seventh grade assignment led Meg Wallace to the world of Carson McCullers. Now, Wallace is providing another chance for the famous Southern writer's seldom-seen The Square Root of Wonderfu…
Married for three decades, Keliher Walsh and James Eckhouse apparently still can't get enough of each other's company. Eckhouse is directing Walsh's first play Year of the Rabbit in its prem…
At age 36, playing a naive 19-year-old in The Book of Mormon at the Pantages Theatre, Gavin Creel is Elder Price in more ways than one. He reflects on the advantages of experience as well as…
LA STAGE Alliance announced the nominations for the 2012 Ovation Awards at the Renberg last night, and here some of the nominees express their feelings about the news. READ MORE
Private Lives hasn't remained a private pleasure -- after eight decades, it's consistently revived. Joseph Fuqua and Julia Granata discuss why. They play its leading lovers and its prima…
The 2012 Ovations nominations were especially good news for Center Theatre Group, Celebration's The Color Purple and designer Tom Buderwitz. They won the most nods for any group, single show…
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