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Ebony Rep will present the LA premiere of Fraternity at the Holden...Readings series at Long Beach Playhouse and the Road...Shakespeare Orange County's season...Jules Aaron's many projects..…
Dreamhouse Ensemble, which was in the Space on Heliotrope, has transformed into Dreamhouse Theater Company, opening All My Sons at the Jet in NoHo. In between the two Dreamhouses, founder Al…
Peter Lefcourt wrote and Terry Hanauer is directing a new play with the ominous title Mutually Assured Destruction. And they're married -- to each other. Does that title reflect their wo…
Nilo Cruz wrote Lorca in a Green Dress, in which the Spanish poet and playwright travels through purgatory, during the same period when Cruz was writing his Pulitzer-winning Anna in the Trop…
REDCAT associate director George Lugg, who oversees the organization's New Works Festival (NOW), discusses some of the coming attractions of the 2012 edition of the annual event, July 26-Aug…
Inspired by the Group Theatre, the Group Rep's colleagues work together on projects as disparate as My Three Angels and Jon Robin Baitz's The Paris Letter -- which opens Friday, directed by …
Summertime -- and the Shakespeare is everywhere. The Shakespeare Center returns to the VA Japanese Garden with another As You Like It, Independent Shakespeare draws big crowds but wants a pe…
The 11 irreverent puppets of Avenue Q take over Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton this weekend, and Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in early August, for 3-D Theatricals' version of the mu…
REDCAT's Original Works Festival...LA Theatre Works and Cal Rep seasons...Adam Rapp's Blackbird returns...Celebration cancels Design for Living...Arielle Jacobs on the Girls Camaraderie Proj…
Chance Theater, on the east side of Anaheim, tackles West Side Story with plans to make the audience feel more intimately rooted in gang turf and with borrowed LED lighting that promises to …
Tessa Thompson didn't like Shakespeare at Santa Monica High School. But roles in two LA Shakespeare productions introduced her to the notion of being an actor. A decade later, after many dis…
Costume designer Jessica Olson has to create costumes that can fit two casts for the Antaeus Company's Macbeth. And director Jessica Kubzansky is placing the idea that the Macbeths had a chi…
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Nora Dunn is polishing her new solo show Mythical Proportions at the Road Theatre in NoHo, although she says its premiere will take place in her home t…
Christina Hart traces the gradual evolution of her Birds of a Feather, which was inspired by her volunteer work helping children and families. The last frantic chapters of her story will sou…
Even Charles McNulty now acknowledges that LA's midsize theaters are the "logical" place to introduce new plays that aren't picked up by LORT theaters. So why does he explore this issue by t…
If it's Monday, this must be klezmer night. On Tuesday, time to dance, Mexican folkloric-style. The J.A.M. series offers free participatory music and dance events through the summer at six l…
A panic syndrome triggered the creation of Tony Tanner's Merchant of Venice musical. Panic -- plus the fact that Shakespeare is a dead genius. It's about to be produced in two West Hollywood…
John Pielmeier of Agnes of God fame tackles another story about a young woman's interactions with Catholicism and the supernatural -- The Exorcist, based on the famous novel and film from 40…
A support group for men with small penises is the subject of Martin Casella's The Irish Curse, at the Odyssey Theatre. Would you believe that Casella saw his own play in Dublin? Not that LA …
Scratch next season at [Inside] the Ford -- a victim of upcoming renovations of the upstairs Ford Amphitheatre...Dreamhouse returns, in NoHo...Fugard US premiere at Fountain...Open Fist and …
At 15, Chris Raymond was performing in 13, the Jason Robert Brown musical. Now 21, he has had his fill of performance-only gigs. He's the musical director of DOMA's Jekyll & Hyde, and he…
In the years since he saw it in high school 16 years ago, Brian Nitzkin has looked for the opportunity to stage the solo show House, by Daniel MacIvor (whose two-man In On It was presented i…
The LA Stage Alliance offices will be closed today in celebration of the Fourth of July holiday. Wishing everyone a safe and fun-jammed day filled with friends/family, great food and of cour…
Brian Connors describes how he got to know director Mark Rydell and actor Ed Asner and how he then persuaded them to do a short film of one of his Plays in the Park. Now they're doing three …
Jay McAdams, whose 24th Street Theatre won the Peter Zeisler Award for outstanding achievement in American theater at the recent Theatre Communications Group conference in Boston, writes abo…
