1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
Jamie Pachino wrote The Return to Morality in 1998, as a reaction to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, but it has much longer legs than Pachino ever expected. Now the Production Company is prese…
An Incident at the Border examines how arbitrary borders can be. In directing it, Tracy Woodward thought about imposing a big directorial concept -- expanding the playwright's borders, you m…
RADAR L.A. the Sequel expected in Sept-Oct 2013...Robert Egan returns to the Taper to direct Other Desert Cities...24th Street Theatre's new season...Death's Holiday canceled in favor of Tit…
Women affiliated with Ojai Playwrights Conference will take the stage to portray discuss transitions and turning points, in Milestones next Thursday as part of the Ojai conference. Here are …
Novice choreographers looking for mentors are invited to a free workshop for applications to the 2013 CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) Southern California program. The workshop …
Jaime Robledo is on a roll -- he wrote and directed Watson and then staged Stoneface at Sacred Fools. Now he's moving to Theatre of NOTE, where he's directing Adam Szymkowicz's Hearts Like F…
Bill Ratner is a successful voiceover actor and narrator. But in his solo show Voices in My Head: a Life, he tells his own story. Designated as a Best of the Fringe show in the Hollywood Fri…
Dancers Nick Duran and Jmy James Kidd look back on the movement phrases stored and remembered in their bodies in Lake, part of REDCAT's New Original Works festival. READ MORE
Alarmed by changes in the current political climate and inspired by Camus' play Caligula, Kai Cofer decided to write a musical based on it. After struggling with the structure and size of th…
Midsize theater leaders respond to the charge that they aren't interested in new plays. Smaller theater producers elect representatives to a committee that will speak for them in talks about…
The Psychic Life of Savages, a 1995 dark comedy from Amy Freed, was inspired by several well-known, troubled poets in the late '50s and early '60s. Angie Scott and Nate Edelman discuss their…
For the first time in decades, the intimate theater producers of Greater Los Angeles have elected a slate of leaders to move the community forward. The election results are in. READ MORE
Theatre @ Boston Court co-artistic director Michael Michetti and Furious Theatre co-artistic director Nick Cernoch inspect the co-production process that has resulted in their joint producti…
Tim McNeil thought directing Adam Rapp's Blackbird would drive him cuckoo -- in a good way. He wrestled over how to make the experience of the two-hander intimate enough. The results will op…
Marilyn Monroe banner filched...Sanaa Lathan returns to playing Vera Stark...Theatre 40 season...A Steinbeck premiere...Stephen Spinella at Falcon...New music team for Sleepless in Seattle..…
The War Horse story continues six decades later in Farm Boy, at the Matrix. It's drawn from Michael Morpurgo's sequel to his War Horse book; Daniel Buckroyd adapted the sequel for the stage.…
Dane Cook takes a break from standup comedy to make his professional theater debut as the crazy Nazi who created Springtime for Hitler in Mel Brooks' The Producers, at the Hollywood Bowl thi…
Prumsodun Ok suddenly realized that his new Of Land and Sky is "a break-up dance" after his thoughts were stirred by a song on the radio. Will he ever stop being inspired by the men he loves…
The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, producers who make and lose money, the decreasing importance of print media in marketing and how to craft a great pitch were among the subjects covered at the Su…
Poor Dog Group was introduced at a REDCAT NOW festival and now returns to the annual event with its developing 30-minute solo production The Murder Ballad. The show's director Jesse Bonnell …
LA's annual Bard blast offers more than just Shakespeare -- it also offers plenty of adaptations of Shakespeare, from Chance Theater's intimate West Side Story to Vanguard Rep's alfresco Jul…
Musical theater writers gathered over the weekend for the Biz of the Musical Theatre Biz Conference for musical theater writers, at the NoHo Arts Center. The first couple days saw participat…
Opera Povera, in presenting Pauline Ontiveros' To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation at REDCAT, uses an old LA Times photograph of Cheryl Crane …
Miles Brandman was wrestling with writing a plot-driven movie thriller, so he wanted to write a play that was very different. All the hard work on that play comes to fruition Saturday with t…
Kevin Cochran has directed Elmer Rice's nearly 90-year-old expressionistic satire The Adding Machine in the wake of three different economic crises. As he prepares for the opening of his lat…
