How does a theater company's staff assess the impact of its work on the audience? A new study based on extensive surveys at 18 theaters nationwide comes up with some answers to that question…
Try writing a musical's score in three days. Jasmine Orpilla does it. She discusses the experience of writing the music for the first version The Vault: Bankrupt. A more finished full-run ve…
A decade after Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner lent their names to the cultural arts program at LA Gay & Lesbian Center, the program's director Jon Imparato looks back and also forward -…
LA STAGE Talks at the Kirk Douglas - Watch here live now!
The Mike Daisey flap isn't just for the East Coast -- it raises questions about whether or when any producer of non-fictional theater should vet the accuracy of the text. Plus a look at two …
Cultivate/Create, a Los Angeles County Arts Commission matching grant program, is ready for its first public close-up. Â I Can: Requiem for I Can't, an art installation and performance e…
Robert Patrick, the off-off-Broadway pioneer and author of Kennedy's Children, has lived a life on the edge. As he prepares to be honored by the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights next Tues…
DOMA Theatre is based on the notion of giving novices experience alongside professionals. Its latest project is The Who's Tommy, which is being given an update to emphasize that nowadays,Â�…
Damon Chua's own odyssey led him from Singap0re to LA to New York. When the playwright became eligible for US citizenship in 2009, he decided to write about a particular year in the Amer…
Musical Theatre West hosts a memorial service and starts a scholarship fund in honor of frequent leading man John Bisom, who apparently took his own life last weekend...A Mamet and a Quaid j…
Did JFK's assassination have at least somewhat accidental roots? That's the idea behind The Magic Bullet Theory at Sacred Fools. Writers Terry Tocantins and Alex Zola, plus director J.J. May…
Director Michael Arabian, veteran Beckett specialist Alan Mandell and Land of the Tigers' Hugo Armstrong are among those waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum. Armstrong is playing Mande…
Circle X rolls out the first result of its new in-house play development model with Leo Geter's Naked Before God, a comedy that touches on porn, penance and politics. Artistic director Tim W…
How do you turn Biblical text into stage imagery? Des McAnuff explains it all for you, as the former La Jolla Playhouse artistic director brings his Stratford Shakespeare Festival revival of…
Matthew Leavitt was once a neighbor of playwright Del Shores -- and the son of Shores' late producer. Now Leavitt is a playwright himself, and Shores is doing the producing -- of Leavitt's c…
SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day will be celebrated Sunday with a panel discussion at the Theatricum Botanicum. READ MORE
The LA Stage Alliance launches its new LA STAGE Talks series on March 27 to coincide with World Theatre Day. Moderated by LA STAGE CEO Terence McFarland, the five free events seek to explore…
An eight-word phrase that emerged from a poet's slumber inspired first a spoken-word poem and now becomes a play, Suicide. at the Victory Theatre. Creator Tai French is also playing the …
The companies who won the most Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards Monday were Rogue Machine, the Odyssey Theatre/Evidence Room combination, Ebony Repertory Theatre and CTG. Â Highest…
American Idiot -- the musical as opposed to the Green Day album -- owes a lot to its predecessor Spring Awakening, but unfortunately American Idiot isn't nearly as good. The evidence is in t…
The terrors of the telephone -- really, any kind of terrors and troubles -- can feed your art, Ayana Hampton explains, as she prepares her Morning After Show at the Bootleg Theater. READ MORE
Spring Awakening, the musical, finally reaches one of LA's smaller theaters, where director Kate Sullivan hopes that an audience will be awakened to more of the details, while paying less. A…
The Production Company revives the Studs Terkel-derived musical Working with a look at the solitary experience of the modern workplace -- and a live band that wasn't possible in the group's …
More details on LA Theatre Works' move to KPFK...Latino Theater keeps planning for an LATC spring despite an eviction notice from the city of LA...Steven Fales brings his Mormon Boy trilogy …
Friends in Russia, Ilia Volok and Eugene Lazarev are now involved in an adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman in West Hollywood. Volok is performing the solo show under Lazarev's direction…