1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
South Coast Repertory's Jitney will hail a ride across town to the Pasadena Playhouse after Costa Mesa…Deborah Cox will join the new Jekyll & Hyde, which will go from La Mirada to a to…
You might think that you would never be seduced into seeing a play about propaganda by reading an online article about Cody Henderson's The Bewildered Herd at Greenway Court, but we dare you…
Dean Mora takes us through the beats of his musical direction of the Colony's revival of Dames at Sea. He also talks about his passion to play popular American music from earlier era wit…
Mikhail Baryshnikov immigrated to the West from the Soviet Union, becoming an international ballet superstar. Now, at age 64, his destinations have changed " he doesn't dance much in the US …
Danielle Kennedy and Beth Kennedy, mother and daughter, discuss their separate specialties within the trenches of LA theater comedy. Danielle is about to open in Bart DeLorenzo's staging of …
Clara Mamet, daughter of David, recently dropped out of Santa Monica High School, and she's currently advancing her career by appearing in a Ruskin Group Theatre production of a short play s…
Auschwitz survivor turned clutch purse manufacturer Lucy Deutsch has now turned her autobiography into the musical No Time to Weep, opening at the Matrix. Starring as the young Lucy is Caitl…
99-Seat Plan productions made up "only" 58% of the Equity-related productions in Greater LA in 2011. The others were on Equity contracts " something to think about as Equity considers changi…
With Stephen Schwartz's Godspell and Wicked now running side by side on Broadway, the composer discusses his role in the rehearsal process of the two revivals. READ MORE
The internet is the central character in Matthew McCray's Eternal Thou, a sci-play that incorporates a little Martin Buber as well as the idea that technology is taking over the world. Mc…
Elizabeth Sarnoff co-created a TV series last year. But before it went on the air in January, she left the series and returned to the play that launched her career as a writer --Â Slow Dan…
A director for November, a cast for Los Otros...A season for Rogue Machine...A month for opera...Long Beach Opera to bring Ainadamar to West Coast...Evangeline to feature Los Lobos music...N…
Comedy maven Ron West has directed and acted often at Open Fist, and now he's staging Early and Often there. It's a comedy set in the ethically loose world of Chicago politics in 1960. W…
Matt Shakman, once a Ventura kid turned juvenile TV star, grew up and became an LA theater and TV director. Best known in the LA theater world for his tiny Black Dahlia Theatre, he's about t…
The prolific theater composer David O discusses his dilemma when people ask "What kind of music do you write?" Writing his latest score for A Noise Within, he discovered that a tuba is as ri…
Producers who work in sub-100-seat theaters are invited to a series of meetings that LA STAGE Alliance is sponsoring in April and May. The goal is to develop a collaborative approach to work…
The Vault: Bankrupt is almost site-specific, located inside LATC's old bank building, produced by an organization that has had financial problems of its own. Hershey Felder has Lincoln's doc…
After directing her daughter's school production of Anything Goes, the former Cheers writer/producer Cheri Steinkellner created a new show from old songs in the public domain in order to giv…
On the heels of last week's report on how to measure the intrinsic impact of theater on audiences, Theatre Communications Group announces a new program, Audience (R)Evolution, designed to de…
Reid Scott, best known as a TV actor, directed plays in his New York salad days. Now he's making his LA stage directing debut with a production of The Elephant Man, produced by a group of fr…
Holly, unhinged after the death of her mother, hires a company to help her build a better personal brand, in Feedback, at the Lyric Theatre. Holly's creator, playwright Jane Miller, analyzes…
Latino Museum exits LATC in a resolution of the museum's dispute with Latino Theater...Sideways the play is on its way...Rubicon Theatre's new season will feature a re-conceived Pal Joey sta…
David McClendon met David Lee Stafford when they were freshmen in an Oklahoma college. Now the former David is directing Laura, the noir play that its more famous for its movie version, for …
Individual artists and small-budget arts organizations can participate in free round-robin seminars on arts management subjects with experts and consultants, in Santa Clarita on April 28. RE…
Hershey Felder is known for his solo shows about composers. But in his new Lincoln, he is the composer, and he has eliminated his usual piano in favor of an orchestra. He plays the doctor wh…
