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Rex Pickett has taken a creative journey through golf and wine, novelizations and filmmaking, to bring Sideways The Play to the stage. It finally premieres tonight at Ruskin Group Theatre…
Broadway League creates Latino-audience development partnership… Fundraisers and extended runs abound…Dave Barton helms Ravenhill's  Shopping and Fucking…A look back at Armand Volka…
The Closeness of the Horizon, premiering tomorrow night at the Odyssey, brought out a spirit of collaboration"and perfectionism"between its playwright, Richard Martin Hirsch, and director, D…
Tim Dang infuses East West Players' production of A Little Night Music, opening tonight, with a bit of Chinese culture and a lot of heart. READ MORE
Finances make for a pared-down California International Theatre Festival, but the passion and the quality remain the same, as the lineup starts this week in Calabasas. READ MORE
At LA STAGE Talks' latest event, a panel of theater-makers not only talked last night but also showed how it's done: They collaborated in an initial discussion of designs for a hypothetical …
Transferring from New York after finding its footing in a friendly neighborhood saloon, It is Done opens tonight in a friendly Hollywood landmark. READ MORE
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Follies was the first production at LA's Shubert Theatre, and that theater's imminent demolition 30 years later was the occasion for a Follies-like reunion, which is recalled by the exper…
On opening night of Follies at the Ahmanson, Connie chatted with Annie Potts, Robert Wuhl, JoAnne Worley, Kevin Chamberlin, Michael Ritchie, the production's director Eric Schaeffer, the …
3-D Theatricals, which is about to enlarge its turf to include Redondo Beach, opens the last of its Fullerton-only shows, A Chorus Line, this weekend. Director TJ Dawson and others discuss t…
Several of LA theater's talkback organizers offer tips on how to keep the audience engaged in conversations after the play is over (or even before it has begun). READ MORE
James Blackman's South Bay CLO company moves its big musicals series to the Warner Grand in San Pedro...3-D Theatricals moves into Blackman's former Redondo Beach venue with extensions of it…
Playwright Michael Elyanow has reworked Medea for modern times -- and Maine. Find out whether he thinks we treat our kids any better these days when the play opens this weekend. READ MORE
Stage veterans and Tony nominees Jan Maxwell and Jayne Houdyshell resume their roles in Sondheim's musical Follies when the remount opens tonight at Ahmanson Theatre. READ MORE
Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo collaborate yet again to bring East LA history to the stage, this time with Louie Perez of Los Lobos. Their play Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, focus…
In the wake of Hope comes Charity, more of Evelina Fernández's semi-autobiographical trilogy about a multi-generational Mexican American family. Fernandez is also on stage in Char…
Springtime on Spring Street brings authentic LA stories -- Cornerstone Theater's production of Lisa Loomer's Café Vida, inspired by the saga of the Homegirl Cafe, and eight short plays at C…
When actors step confidently and calmly onto the stage in the right costume that has been mended and pressed, it's often thanks to the wise, quick work of their dressers. Five dressers recal…
Padraic Duffy's new Copy is actually a new version of a play he started writing a decade ago. In the re-writing process, he discovered that the latest Duffy is hardly an exact copy of his yo…
The Kodak Theatre becomes the Dolby...The Blank has found a nine-year-old playwright...California International Theatre Festival is happening this month...Aldo Pisano discusses his role in S…
Crystal's Cruises' Serenity sails south, and the performers on this theater-related cruise have to vie for rehearsal space and time. How about the fitness room after midnight? Susan Claassen…
Cornerstone Theater's Café Vida was inspired by the former gang members who re-enter productive society via jobs at downtown LA's Homegirl Café. Lisa Loomer was hired to write the play, wh…
Christina Joy Howard used her father's experiences -- and his audio tapes -- from his involvement in the evacuation of Saigon in 1975 to create the LOFT Ensemble's The Last Day -- but it…
Three theater critics, a playwright and an actress gathered at KPCC Monday to discuss "Arts Criticism -- How Does It Serve Los Angeles?"Â It was part of the LA STAGE Talks series sponsore…
