1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
Kirsten Vangsness plays an amateur porn star who represents lust in Phinneas Kiyomura's Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE -- it's not the kind of play she wants her nieces to see. Nor is it a lucr…
The new leaders of Antaeus, the classical theater company, include John Sloan, Rob Nagle and Bill Brochtrup. Discussing the changes at the company and its future prospects are Sloan and Nagl…
Jill Charlotte Thomas became curious about one of the victims of the first night of the 1969Â Manson murders -- coffee heiress Abigail Folger. Did Folger have any previous acquaintance wi…
Reprise is in trouble. Is its mission not clear enough? Should it be just like other musical theater companies or should it continue to produce shows that can't be seen elsewhere?...Valerie …
John Malkovich will write a message for the 50th annual World Theatre Day, sponsored by Theatre Communications Group and the US Center of the International Theatre Institute. An essay contes…
Tom Dugan's Simon Wiesenthal -- Nazi Hunter, acclaimed at Theatre 40 last year, moves to Ventura's Rubicon Theatre. Although Dugan's father told him stories about his World War II servic…
Beth Henley's 1964 Mississippi drama The Jacksonian world premiered this week at the Geffen Playhouse. Stars Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Glenne Headly, Bill Pullman and Bess Rous celebrate with …
Reprise Theatre Company is canceling the third show of the 2011-2012 season, The Apple Tree, in addition to its earlier cancellation of its second show The Baker's Wife, while the Reprise b…
Zina Bethune killed by hit-run driver...A season of premieres at the Colony, plus details on seasons at LA Opera and Musical Theatre West...KPFK to air LATW radio plays...Richard Chamberlain…
Beth Henley's new The Jacksonian opens tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. The three women in the cast -- Amy Madigan, Glenne Headly and Bess Rous -- gather to discuss the evil that permeates t…
Director Bart DeLorenzo questions South Coast Repertory's new artistic director Marc Masterson about the company's new directions, its use of local artists, his working habits, views on the …
A true Hawaiian story about a group of pre-World War Ii swimmers who trained for the Olympics in an irrigation ditch arrives on the mainland in the East West Players production of Lee Tonouc…
Burbank's midsizes focus masterfully on musicians -- Dissonance at the Falcon and Old Wicked Songs at the Colony. The latter play's writer strikes out with his latest at the Blank. Road Thea…
Kim Huber was a kid who grew up in the Southern California musical theater scene, ran off to New York and Broadway for a decade, then returned here to raise a family and perform in the same …
Lesli Margherita, playing Aldonza in Musical Theatre West's Man of La Mancha, looks forward to changes in the musical arrangements that she hopes will make Aldonza sound a little more...whor…
Jon Marans has both a new play and an old play up in LA right now -- The Cost of the Erection at the Blank and Old Wicked Songs at the Colony. He makes 100% of his living from his plays. Adv…
Stephen Eich discusses his experiences at Pasadena Playhouse, where's he about to exit his job as executive director, and his hopes for the playhouse and his own career...Wililam Shatner and…
JoBeth Williams equates making her LA intimate theater debut in Joel Drake Johnson's The Fall to Earth at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble to climbing Mount Everest. Director Robin Larsen he…
Director J.C. Gafford, who is neither black nor female, relates his long journey with Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf. It culminates F…
While protesting the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Valerie Dillman heard about the recent death of Rachel Corrie -- the American political activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Pal…
From dust to dust, from chalk to chalk -- Chalk Repertory returns to the Hollywood cemetery where it acquired its name and staged its first production, this time with the West Coast premiere…
Theater artists who use first-person testimony and historical artifacts was the topic of a panel on Day 3 of the Association for Jewish Theatre conference, which met at USC on Tuesday. T…
Kieren van den Blink, producing and starring in Bekah Brunstetter's Mine for her Little Beast Theatre at Elephant Lab, discusses the twists and turns and celebrity encounters as she "follows…
Gathering at UCLA Hillel for the first two days of its 31st conference, the Association for Jewish Theatre produced panels that began with jokes but went on to discuss ethical values, Jewish…
Evan Brenner's solo Buddha - A Fantastic Journey condenses reams of sutras about the Buddha's life into about 90 minutes. Brenner discusses his show's path and how acclaimed actor John C. Re…
