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The box offices at some of LA's bigger theaters are beehives of activity. In interviews with box office employees at the Geffen Playhouse, A Noise Within, Pasadena Playhouse and Center Theat…
Plays about middle-aged spouses and younger lovers are so common that a playwright has to do a lot to stand out from the crowd. Look at Euripides' Helen, as adapted by Nick Salamone for Gett…
East West Players imports the Massachusetts-based but India-inpired Navarasa Dance Theater to open its 47th season, presenting an Encounter with an indigenous woman's struggle against milita…
Unlike her male colleagues in The Full Monty, Shannon Warne won't have to take off all her clothes for her role in Third Street Theatre's revival. But she had to do so in Camelot at Pasadena…
Natalie Sutherland left Scotland more than a decade ago to act in LA, feeling like Dorothy going to Oz. In this analogy, her wizard was Odyssey artistic director Ron Sossi -- who, thanks to …
Andy Bloch contends that The Bellflower Sessions, his tale of a stormy relationship between a patient and a therapist, reflects broader themes, such as "the emasculation of America's economy…
Ovation Award nominations announced next Tuesday...Tribute to Joan Stein on Oct. 8...Glaudini moves from MTW to Moonlight...City Garage opens a new space at Bergamot and a new play by Mee...…
Brothers Jon and Al Kaplan moved to LA to become film composers. But they've achieved their greatest fame with Silence! The Musical, a YouTube-generated stage parody of the movie Silence of …
Robert Marra became more excited about his assignment from Actors Co-op to stage a revival of The World Goes 'Round not only after he lived with the Kander and Ebb music for a while but also…
Helen was hot in early '60s Hollywood. Then this beautiful woman, normally associated with Troy, was spirited away to exile while a phantom Helen wrecked havoc in her place. In this way, ada…
Applicants for funding from Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Organizational Grant Program can attend seven free workshops that are designed to improve the applications, scheduled for Sep…
David Gow had no idea that his Cherry Docs would receive a hundred productions -- the most recent of which opens Thursday at Theatricum Botanicum. Considering that it's about a skinhead accu…
Independent Shakespeare Company attracted more than 2800 theatergoers to Griffith Park last Sunday and nearly 38,000 to its summer season. Its last production, Comedy of Errors, featured a m…
Iñaki Rikarte had to learn how to direct with masks but without words for André & Dorine, from the Spanish Basque Country-based Kulunka Teatro. The three-actor production, about a ma…
Chalk Rep's Flash Festival will present 15 new 10-minue plays -- five in each of three weekends -- in site-specific locations within the George Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. Audiences…
The LA STAGE Alliance offices will be closed today to celebrate the Labor Day holiday. Everyone returns tomorrow to help launch the exciting fall theatrical season kicking off this week!
Heading into Labor Day Weekend, here's something to take along to the beach:Â Â the top 10, most-read LA STAGE Times columns, features and First Persons of the summer. READ MORE
Downey Civic Light Opera appears doomed after the current season...Steven Glaudini appears to be leaving Musical Theatre West...The attempted extension of Deathtrap falls into a...deathtrap.…
After nearly 25 years in offices in downtown LA's old Engine Co. 28, LA STAGE Alliance is on the move -- to temporary quarters within the LA County Arts Commission offices on Wilshire Bl…
When Matthew McCray first read Martin Crimp's The City in 2008, he couldn't make much sense of it. Now he's directing the US premiere for Son of Semele, and he writes about how he approached…
Charlie Mount's first encounters with The Fantasticks weren't especially memorable. But now, in middle age, he realizes that the musical "suddenly makes more sense". He has re-imagined its s…
CTG not only almost entirely avoids LA in its upcoming season at its three venues, but a reference to its devotion to LA content that used to be on the CTG website is now missing -- even tho…
The creators of Elephant Room -- Steve Cuiffo, Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford -- assume their fictional identities during an interview about the magic-themed production, which arrives in LA S…
Sean Thomas has made some big choices in life -- leaving Nova Scotia for Hollywood, returning home, returning to Hollywood. Now he feels he has found the right play to explore what he has le…
The Mark Taper Forum and International City Theatre 2013 seasons are announced...Cornerstone gets a $50,000 grant...VS. Theatre will take over the former Black Dahlia space...Dave Barton dis…
