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Rita O'Farrell writes about producing her play Pedestrian in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, then reworking it and self-producing it outside the Fringe. It's described as the tale of "a young…
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It's election year, so it's time for plenty of plays about politics. Chuck Rose's Bedfellows leads the pack by letting us see the potential as well as the flaws within its California guberna…
The black soldiers at Camp Logan in Texas became embroiled in a devastating chapter in American history in 1917. Joe Morris' staging of Celeste Bedford Walker's Camp Logan recalls that bitte…
Sal Mistretta won an award for his performance in the DC area's US premiere of the rock musical The Fix, about political shenanigans, in 1998. But the Monica Lewinsky scandal apparently …
Site-specific theater in the Metro this weekend as the Expo Line opens...UCLA Live becomes CAP-UCLA, and theater returns to the programming mix...a Festival of New American Musicals without …
Lifelike "reborn" dolls are used as therapeutic props by mothers whose babies have died or abused individuals. They're also used in Zayd Dohrn's Reborning, opening at the Chance Theater. Cas…
Cyrano with a big nose -- been there, done that. In 2012 LA, Cyrano's problem is that the woman he loves doesn't understand the ASL movements of his hands. This is the idea behind Stephen Sa…
Richard Chamberlain, playing a stern father in The Heiress at Pasadena Playhouse, remembers his own "repressive" and "terrifying" father, as well as his own sunnier life since he came out of…
A cruise is making is way down the Mexican coast, en route to the Panama Canal and then New York -- and it will benefit such LA arts nonprofits as Center Theatre Group and the Gay Men's Chor…
South Coast Repertory's literary manager Kelly L. Miller provides a preview of coming attractions at SCR's Pacific PlaywrightsFestival, which culminates next weekend with five staged reading…
Mona Golabek, a third-generation concert pianist, concentrates on her mother's story in The Pianist of Willesden Lane at the Geffen. As a child, her talented mother was shipped out of reach …
Three young women enter adulthood in musicals that are otherwise very different -- Cloudlands at South Coast Rep, Dames at Sea at the Colony and Miss Saigon at La Mirada -- where Jacqueline …
A youthful first glimpse of the Golden Gate Bridge eventually led Richard Raskind to write a play about some of those who go there to commit suicide. The West Coast premiere of The Bridge Cl…
Bets Malone is one of those rare actors who relies on the LA stage for most of her income. Since she was a kid in San Diego County, she has been employed in southern California musicals, wit…
Michael Premsrirat's The Girl Most Likely To is loosely based on the story of murdered transgendered teenager Gwen Araujo. It's being introduced in an LATC production directed by Jon Lawrenc…
New seasons at Geffen and Pasadena playhouses, with Lynn Nottage plays at both...New seasons for Laguna Playhouse and Musical Theatre Guild...a 20th anniversary production of Anna Deavere Sm…
Laid off from his LAUSD teaching job while struggling to complete a play, Alan Aymie responded by writing another play, a solo dealing with educational issues. He also found his experiences …
In The Convert, Danai Gurira looks at the cultural conflicts facing a young woman who's fleeing a forced marriage in 1895 Zimbabwe. Gurira knows the turf -- born in Iowa, raised in Zimba…
After a critic called Wendy Johnson "a Judy Holliday clone," she began investigating her inner Holliday. The result is Johnson's Concealing Judy Holliday, a multi-actor play about the origin…
Playwright Chuck Rose and producer/director Jack Stehlin discuss their current collaboration -- Rose's Bedfellows -- and their pasts. Rose's play is about a would-be California governor with…
The subject of class distinctions looms large in this election year. Take a look at Good People, The Prince of Atlantis, Billy Elliot, Working, even Long Day's Journey Into Night. Why ar…
At the Billy Elliot opening at the Pantages, Connie chats with Billy du jour Ty Forhan, his castmate Patti Perkins, Anna Trebunskaya of Dancing With the Stars, Michael Gross, Bruce Vilanch a…
Director Brian Kite focused on casting young for his new revival of Miss Saigon. He also discusses his role as La Mirada's municipal theater maven " coming next season, Next to Normal. Can y…
How do producer and actress Monica Raymund and director Neil Patrick Stewart keep both The Elephant Man and their own marriage healthy? As the Mechanicals Theatre production opens this weeke…
