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Good grief. The Women of Lockerbie at Theatricum Botanicum and Grace Notes & Anvils at the Odyssey explore many aspects of grief in very different but very effective ways; the latter pla…
At the Friday night opening of War Horse at the Ahmanson, Connie chats with Camryn Manheim, Diane Warren, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and -- from the War Horse company -- puppeteers Derek Stratton…
Davis Gaines played King Arthur in Camelot in Sacramento. Now he's tackling the irreverent Monty Python version of the same character, in Spamalot for Musical Theatre West in Long Beach -- w…
Director Kiff Scholl loathes most examples of "reality" TV, which is the subject of Our House, the Theresa Rebeck play that he's directing at the Lounge. One exception to his rule -- Project…
APA brings Boy From New York City to Coast...Sinner wins Sherwood...Farm Boy follows War Horse...The Merchant of Venice With Music set for two West Hollywood parks...Brownstein's hairdresser…
The opening of Downtown LA's new Grand Park, near the end of July, will include a big interactive dance performance and a performance from Cirque du Soleil's Iris troupe. The public is invit…
The War Horse star (spoiler alert -- he's actually a puppet) isn't doing interviews, but we talk to Andrew Veenstra as the award-winning play opens at the Ahmanson. He plays the boy whose be…
He was a poet and performer, but Doug Knott didn't think of himself as an actor. But he's now the star of his own hour-long solo show, Last of the Knotts, doing characters in addition to pla…
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, a Ugandan American actor with a Hollywood career, hasn't forgotten Uganda's problems. His A Missionary Position is a dramatization based on research in Uganda about t…
Pavel Cerny, the director of the upcoming Komitas, discusses some of the differences between his plan for the show and that of its writer/producer Lilly Thomassian. A veteran producer/direct…
The trip made by a sturdy Jitney from South Coast Rep to Pasadena Playhouse raises questions about why more such transfers don't take place. The Fringe ends, with Nina Variations and eggshel…
Going green isn't as easy as a well-intentioned environmentalist might imagine, as Kristina Wong testifies in her solo show Going Green the Wong Way at the Bootleg. Set in LA, the production…
In Laurie O'Brien's first career, in Colorado, she worked with the psychologically troubled. After moving to LA and an actor's life, she played the schizophrenic Mary Barnes in her break…
Marilyn Monroe's name to go on a second LA theater...CAP UCLA, the successor to UCLA Live, returns theater to the mix in its first season...A Noise Within's second season in Pasadena...Crown…
The fledgling playwright didn't know enough about broken hearts, and she found machines boring. But then she found her inspiration -- while working on an assignment from this year's Pulitzer…
David Engel and John J. Joseph cross-dress for Ken Ludwig's farce, Leading Ladies, at International City Theatre -- even as their characters fall in love with women. It's a familiar plot twi…
Lauren Ludwig had low expectations for her first encounter with Lost Moon Radio. Now she's the artistic director and thinks of it as her "new family" -- complete with familial conflicts. The…
Three Hollywood Fringe Festival participants and enthusiasts -- Gregory Crafts, Matthew Quinn and Gedaly Guberek -- discuss ways in which the Fringe can contribute to the larger LA theater, …
He was an actor -- and a former mathlete, supporting his art with a day job as a computer programmer. But then he came up with a phrase that allowed him to combine his two sides -- and r…
How should a theatergoer choose between Fringe shows that close sooner and other shows that close later but might be better? Why hasn't the Fringe found a midsize venue in Hollywood where pr…
Santa Monica-born Lee Ferris, who was seen in 2007 as Berger in Hair at the Met, plays rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins in the touring company of Million Dollar Quartet, arriving at the Panta…
Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, were among the stars of the final leg of Crystal Cruises' 2012 Film and Theatre Cruise, as it headed…
John Perrin Flynn explains why, for the sake of Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom, his Rogue Machine company made an exception to its policy of staging only plays that are new or ne…
Downtown LA's proposed Broadway Arts Center, Cornerstone Theater and CalArts receive ArtPlace grants...Shakespeare Center of LA returns to alfresco summer production with As You Like It at t…
Summer isn't quite here, but it's not too early to apply for a spot in next year's summer season at the Ford Amphitheatre. Workshops are scheduled for July 31 and August 14, with the applica…
