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A self-identified "Jewish boy from Brooklyn," Art Shulman took on the task of writing an epic play about the Cherokee nation's Trail of Tears and one especially controversial Cherokee leader…
Molly Smith Metzler's Elemeno Pea is relevant to its 99%/1% era and its Costa Mesa place, and it need not apologize for getting big laughs. Cirque's Iris goes on vacation; will it return to …
Jane Lanier is no longer dancing, but she's choreographing and directing. Currently she's re-creating movement for non-dancers in Jason Edwards' staging of the Johnny Cash bio-musical Ring o…
When John Powers was in high school in south LA, a recent alumnus of his school was killed in Vietnam. This started a chain of curiosity in Powers that resulted in his dramatization of The P…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival accepts applications and moves Fringe Central to the Open Fist...LA Opera news...Conan O'Brien headlines a Geffen fund-raiser...stage photographer and sometime …
Christy Hall wrote a play inspired by the letters that a woman wrote to her husband during World War II. A former member of Actors Co-op now based in New York, Hall re-unites with the Co-op …
Bradley Whitford and Michael O'Keefe argue over art at lunch in Pasadena, while Roger Bart cracks jokes -- not far from what their characters do in Yasmina Reza's Art, at the Pasadena Playho…
Lars Jan presents Abacus, a TED Talks-style presentation, examined from many different angles. He cautions that the shifting nature of the show makes it "a Trojan horse" -- but don't call it…
The Music Center employs a corps of 300 paid ushers. They are trained to work at all four of the Music Center venues -- which host more than 1000 performances a year, plus plenty of special …
In the first of a series of occasional articles revisiting subjects from the LA STAGE magazine archives, we catch up with actress Tracy Middendorf who graced the March 2002 cover (see photo …
A Raisin in the Sun and Jerry Springer: The Opera each nabbed eight Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nominations -- more than those of any other productions. Center Theatre Group won a total…
Meet Me @Metro: Uncovering Los Angeles' Hidden Treasures (M3-III) will use theatrical artists to uncover history along the Metro Gold Line route next summer. Companies and individual theatri…
Michael Lorre appreciates the challenges and restrictions that occur while making art -- from his days as an improv actor to his current gig directing Twentieth Century at the Sierra Madre P…
Just as CTG deserves kudos for presenting simultaneous and terrific productions of A Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park, it's likely to arouse some concern and criticism for instituting a …
Tanya Saracho was born in Mexico, moved to Texas, went to college in Boston, settled in Chicago, and was inspired by a Russian play as she wrote El Nogalar, which is set in Mexico and is ope…
At the opening of Clybourne Park at the Mark Taper Forum on Wednesday, Connie chatted with Erika Alexander, Paul Blackthorne, Tim Griffin, Aidan Quinn and, from the cast, Damon Gupton and Ch…
Latino Theater Company announces a spring season at LATC despite a City Council vote to evict the company...CTG offers sections of Tweet Seats for Twitter users at two performances tonight..…
Julia Fletcher, founding artistic director of Pacific Resident Theatre, left the Venice company but two decades but recently returned to stage a workshop. Now she's back to directing on …
Now is the time for any theater companies who want to produce in LA County's Winter Partnership Program at [Inside] the Ford -- next winter, not this one -- to prepare your applications. The…
Pam MacKinnon staged the premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park in 2010, and now she's preparing the Mark Taper Forum's staging, which will morph into the Broadway deb…
Trying to produce, direct and rewrite his own play, Expecting To Fly, resulted in a "disaster" two years ago, according to Michael Hyman -- especially when one of the two actors took a walk …
Rinde Eckert wrestled with a character, Nathan, who was wrestling with the idea of composing on opera based on Moby Dick. The result, And God Created Whales, won an Obie Award a decade ago. …
In Christopher Wall's Dreams of The Washer King, a teenager creeps around the house with a makeshift tape recorder looking for "spectral signs" of his deceased father. Director Andre Barron …
David Cromer's original vision of Our Town at Broad Stage offers a lot of surprises, even from the balcony. It expands the role of Simon Stimson in a way that LA STAGE Times' own…
At the opening night of Cirque du Soleil's OVO at the Santa Monica Pier, Connie chats with Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Chris McDonald, Ali Landry and Cirque CEO Daniel Lamarre. R…
