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Don't put Michael Hollinger in a box. His Ghost-Writer, at International City Theatre, was inspired by a story about Henry James and his secretary. His Tooth and Claw, recently recorded for …
East LA Rep still does theater -- it's doing For One Mariachi for Meet Me @ Metro III. But it also has expanded into a "creative center," explains co-founder Jesus A. Reyes. READ MORE
Fountain Theatre's US premiere of Athol Fugard's The Blue Iris will again remind us that this small theater has become Fugard's artistic home away from his actual home in Del Mar and his hom…
Angela Wood, resident costume designer for Glendale Centre Theatre, traces her evolution from selling Halloween costumes at a Glendale shop to designing more distinctive apparel for the thea…
As another Carmageddon looms, with closure of the 405 freeway scheduled for Sept. 29-30, the ARTmageddon movement is encouraging residents not only to stay close to home but also to support …
As we approach the national political conventions, political plays are popping up. A look at How Obama Got His Groove Back, The Grönholm Method, The Government Inspector, The Return to Mora…
The Theatricum Botanicum, that bastion of the classics, also develops new plays in its Seedlings series of readings. Now one of those new plays, Michael Gene Sullivan's Recipe, is attracting…
Stephen Spinella, best known for his Angels in America roles, is now part of the US premiere of the Catalan-born play The Grönholm Method, at the Falcon. While director BT McNicholl is urgi…
Promenade Players and an Italian company collaborate in Santa Monica...EST/LA announces two new wartime plays...New American Theatre's new season...Under My Skin cast for Pasadena Playhouse.…
At the opening of Red at the Mark Taper Forum, Connie chats with Betty White, Zachary Quinto, Dustin Lance Black, Alan Mandell, Ed Begley Jr., and playwright John Logan, who acknowledges a f…
As Mark Troy prepares to open his new play Anxiety at the Odyssey, he discusses some of his own anxieties and his obsessions over one minutia or another. On opening night, take a look at his…
Katselas Theatre combines features of several previous play labs in sessions that start before the first draft is even written. The results of the first lab are now being presented in worksh…
A jaded dramaturge and a world-famous painter try to pass on their wisdom to younger talents in John Morogiello's Blame It on Beckett at the Colony and John Logan's Red at the Mark Taper For…
President Obama has been the subject of a series of satirical productions from City in a Swamp. In the third, How Obama Got His Groove Back, the president supplements his regular duties …
Playwright John Morogiello's resume lends credibility to Blame It on Beckett, a comedy set behind the scenes of a resident theater company. The director -- former Laguna Playhouse artistic d…
Samantha Macher had to learn how to write about someone she never knew, in a very different culture, in a time far removed from the perspective of her millennial generation. With the help of…
In memoriam -- Dale Olson, Joan Stein and Marvin Hamlisch...Hollywood Fringe Festival ticket sales went up 25% over last year...Thomas Bradac brings his adaptation of Venus and Adonis back t…
We're in an election year, but director David Chrzanowski hopes his staging of the Adrian Hall adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men will resonate beyond the story of t…
Jonathan Groff was Tony-nominated for Spring Awakening and an Obie winner for two Craig Lucas plays. But now he's an LA actor, too, working not only in TV's Glee and Boss but also in the Mar…
Heather Woodbury's concerns about climate change aren't sending her to protest marches -- they're sending her to REDCAT, where she's performing an excerpt from her As the Globe Warms serial.…
Gregg Daniel, artistic director of Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, encountered "mine fields" while trying to find a play for the company's second production. Rights weren't available for many …
Suzi Dietz, the late Joan Stein's producing partner at the Canon Theatre in the '90s, gathered tributes to her friend, who died Friday of cancer at age 59. A variety of LA theater people…
John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday -- previously the source of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream -- receives a non-musical adaptation by Robb Derringer and Matt McKenzie at Pacific…
The late Joan Stein was a specialist in commercial mid-size theater, especially at Beverly Hills'Â Canon Theatre, which she ran with Susan Dietz. Is that kind of theater a dead duck in LA…
Melanie RÃos Glaser pays tribute to la tribu, her tribe of artists with whom she experienced an artistically heady time in Guatemala in 1997-2001, via an improvisation-based dance at REDC…
