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What do teenage playwrights know about? Themselves. But one of them has expanded her character's circle of friends to include a teenager from the 15th century -- Joan of Arc -- in her entry …
After two award-winning collaborations in the past year, actress Anne Gee Byrd and director Cameron Watson aim for a trifecta as they approach The Savannah Disputation, at the Colony. Watson…
With seven productions in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Fierce Backbone is announcing its presence with a big splash. The company aims to be as eclectic as it is fierce. READ MORE
She's the Hollywood Fringe outreach director, representing all Fringe participants equally. She also manages a company that's participating in the Fringe. Can she maintain a proper balan…
Artistic directors talked shop with each other, and looked at the bigger picture too, at an LA STAGE Talks discussion Monday at the Geffen. Among the participants were Michael John Garces, O…
Winter in deepest Iowa, with only the image of an eggshell to guide him, Søren Olsen decided to use gibberish, not words, in Eggshell. Now he has brought the piece to the long June days o…
South Coast Repertory's Studio SCR is again inviting experimental troupes in Southern California to apply for its series of performances at SCR's 94-seat Nicholas Studio. An informational se…
A veteran member of the company that the late Lonny Chapman led writes a love letter to her memories of him and the work he did -- just as she is about to perform a weekend of Love Letters w…
The LA Times again overdoes the Tony Awards coverage, while ignoring LA theater awards. Yussef El Guindi's Language Rooms at LATC is a must-see, and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper isn't…
The Wisehart brothers spent three months in Virginia City, Nevada while growing up, and they were inspired by the town's heritage as the place where, in the 19th century, Samuel Clemens adop…
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At first director Alex Scott wanted to do Martin McDonagh's Pillowman in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, but it wasn't available. So he turned to a play that he had found in college. He hopes…
Matt Shakman and James Roday, young theater artists who made money in TV, are re-investing some of it in a joint home for their companies, Shakman's Black Dahlia and Roday's Red Dog Squadron…
Language Rooms was born from the recently naturalized US citizen and playwright Yussef El Guindi's growing sense of civic alienation -- a result of the stories of human rights abuses during …
His assignment was to come up with the book for an electronica-scored musical. Appropriately enough for a company named SkyPilot, Adam Hahn devised a story set on a space station. READ MORE
CTG announced next season at the Kirk Douglas...memories of Ray Bradbury...David St. Louis is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow...Theresa Rebeck and Josefina Lopez plays...The Manor is back...Morgan Fa…
A young playwright in Blank Playwrights Festival finds that the theme of his play The Index -- our desire to be recognized for our accomplishments -- is echoed in his experiences participati…
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the Fringe Cabaret, from 6 to 9 each evening during the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It showcases the talent on display in the other Fringe sho…
An LA artist presents his personal tour of Fringe festivals in Canada, Australia, Scotland and, now, Hollywood. READ MORE
A newbie producer uses Hollywood Fringe Restival resources to give birth to a new play, Jennifer Aniston Stole My Life. READ MORE
LA STAGE Times Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens recalls a summer 2009 afternoon spent with the legendary author, who reminded her why she wanted to be a writer. READ MORE
In honor of Ray Bradbury's passing today at 91, we re-post this July 2009 interview by Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens from the LA STAGE Times archives. As we said then -- "A month shy o…
How is the Hollywood Fringe Festival like Abraham Lincoln? The creator of the Fringe show Reconstruction explains it all for you. READ MORE
With Los Otros at the Taper and Charity at LATC, two of our bigger stages are occupied by the premieres of productions about the Mexican diaspora in southern California -- a rare and excitin…
Playing yet another mustachioed character, Douglas Sills returns to the LA stage as the patriarch of the proudly oddball Addams family, opening tomorrow night at Pantages Theatre. The former…
