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London-based Steven Hoggett choreographed American Idiot, the Green Day musical that opens tonight at the Ahmanson. Director Michael Mayer had liked Hoggett's Black Watch work. But Hogge…
Andrew Dolan's The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King isn't about King, but is a story that attempts to speak candidly about race. It's one of two Dolan plays soon to hit LA, and part of …
At the opening of American Night at the Kirk Douglas Theatre on Sunday, Connie chatted with Richard Montoya, Stephanie Beatriz, René Millán, Herbert Siguenza and Josh Cooke. …
Why shouldn't a "community theater" -- er, "non-union theater" -- tackle Sweeney Todd? A producer of Morgan-Wixson Theatre's current production of Sondheim's challenging musical answers that…
By flexing his imagination while also connecting his fantasies to a firm narrative base, Richard Montoya makes history and the immigration experience come alive in his American Night at the …
Richard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of Juan José reaches the LA area after productions in Oregon and La Jolla, and Kimberly Scott is still along for the wild ride -- a dream experi…
Happy Big 5-0, World Theatre Day. John Malkovich leads the chorus of well-wishers. Here also is information about some related events this weekend and later in March. READ MORE
Greg Shane, artistic director of CRE Outreach/Theatre by the Blind, writes about some of the blind actors in the company. Many of them have had transformative experiences in the theatrical a…
LA premieres of Catch Me If You Can and Priscilla Queen of the Desert will be among the Broadway LA offerings...Theatricum announces season...Another show with Barbara Bain planned...Nomi Ly…
Leonard Manzella watched Rawhide's Rowdy Yates -- Clint Eastwood's character -- defend those who needed defending. Then he attempted to follow in Eastwood's footsteps in the world of s…
The little Celebration Theatre is doing the big The Color Purple musical with La Toya London, who played Nettie in the touring production but now plays Shug, and with Cesili Williams in the …
Not only did The Spidey Project beat its target, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, to an opening night in New York, but the parody version is also arriving in LA before the behemoth Broadway…
His Riverside childhood was rich in deaf culture. He went from Gallaudet to Hollywood and North Hollywood. Now, Deaf West's new artistic director David Kurs is bent on expanding …
Denis O'Hare (of True Blood fame) is performing a solo version of Homer's Iliad that he co-adapted (with director Lisa Peterson) from Robert Fagles' translation. The New York production is a…
Antony and Cleopatra is the big new production in A Noise Within's new theater that we've been waiting for. Are you enjoying the Chekhov festival -- the one that includes Theatre Movement Ba…
Barbara Bain, of Mission: Impossible fame, chose to accept the mission of playing a gallivanting archeologist, who researches the female brain, in Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body, at Edge…
Robert Owens-Greygrass, who is part-Lakota, found the Red Road, after a more troubled period of his life. He talks about what that means in his solo shows Walking on Turtle Island and Gh…
Re-Animator the Musical is re-animating...Elephant Theatre suspends production activity for the rest of 2012 while strengthening the management and board...Deaf West's new artistic director …
The director of Dennis Lehane's Coronado says the Mystic River writer probably won't write another play. Coronado "breaks theatrical conventions right and left" -- and yes, it's packed with …
The saga of casting Cleopatra for A Noise Within's Antony and Cleopatra also involved two of LA's other classical companies. Former Antaeus artistic director Jeanie Hackett wanted a role…
Director Andrew Traister's duties for Antaeus' The Seagull involve picking the right translation, rehearsing two different casts in a small space, and contemplating how Sorin should snore. H…
The turntable in Mariano Pensotti's The Past Is a Grotesque Animal never stops revolving during the two hours' running time of these four only loosely connected stories about Argentinians be…
Theatre Movement Bazaar has previously treated Chekhov's plays as components within its highly choreographed productions,. But now it's tackling a Chekhov short story, Ward 6, in partnership…
Now it can be told --Â the story of an incident from veteran raconteur Burke Byrnes' youth in the '50s that he felt he couldn't tell in public as long as his father was alive. His father …
Sleepless in Seattle is taking a nap and won't be available for its previously scheduled Pasadena Playhouse gig...Fountain and Deaf West theaters collaborate on a new version of Cyrano...Amy…
