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Jessica Kubzansky's staging of The 39 Steps at La Mirada Theatre offers a chance to see Matt Walker outside his usual Troubies format. Switching among 15 different characters and accents, he…
B.H. Barry, the fight choreographer for the Broadway production of Moon Over Buffalo in 1995, returned to the play in order to stage the fights and physical gags for Open Fist Theatre's 99-s…
A squirrel inspired the origin of J. Michael Feldman's Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over, which receives its most advanced production yet from Inkwell Theater, operating out of the Matrix. I…
Latino Theater Company evicted from LATC...LA Opera focuses on outreach...CTG's Clybourne Park moving to Broadway, Mary Poppins returning to LA...The 1941 musical Let's Face It! faces a brie…
The Furious Theatre re-emerges at [Inside] the Ford, after losing its Pasadena Playhouse home a year ago. The vehicle is Matt Pelfrey's ambitious No Good Deed, which mixes the graphic novel …
Tony-winning actress Julie White wants to meet a guy who loves women, who isn't married, and who wouldn't inspire a sequel to the play Bad Dates --which her friend Theresa Rebeck wrote, base…
Director David Cromer -- the talk of Chicago and Off-Broadway -- brings the longest-running staging ever of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town to Broad Stage, opening tonight. Helen Hunt as …
Alan Patrick Kenny ran a theater in Cincinnati for seven seasons. Then he became the only student in the UCLA MFA directing program that started in 2010. He's now making his debut as an LA p…
The Los Angeles City Council voted in closed session this morning to evict the Latino Theater Company from the city-owned Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Los Angeles Downtown News is repor…
Roy Cohn, the Communist-hunting attorney of the early '50s who died from AIDS in 1986, is the subject of Joan Beber's Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn, opening at the Odyssey. It explores the ma…
Sam Anderson is directing Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge at the Road, where he is a co-artistic director. Here he also talks about his experiences in TV's Lost, the recent play Blackbird,…
Ovo costume designer Liz Vandal consulted her own feelings about spiders in order to begin the designs for Cirque du Soleil's touring extravaganza, which focuses on insects and arachnids. A …
Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's take on the Trojan War, should be seen a lot more often in LA. The Porters of Hellsgate are doing their part in Charles Pasternak's inventive staging in…
Most LA actors take other jobs to support their acting. But how many of them turn their experiences on those jobs into an award-winning play (with roles for themselves, of course)? Inspired …
A six-weekend run for a dance production in a small LA theater? That's what casebolt and smith, AKA Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith, are attempting with O(h) at Actors Company Theatre. They're d…
Tara Karsian didn't like God's Ear at first -- even as she joined its cast. During the first rehearsals, she had yet to be fully convinced. But now she's a believer, repenting her previous l…
Victoria Clark will take over Bernadette Peters' role in the Follies import...Dany Margolies is laid off at Back Stage...Jordan Monsell of the returning Pulp Shakespeare speaks...From Hazard…
Kathleen Turner discusses how portraying the late iconic Texas columnist, in the West Coast premiere of Red Hot Patriot: The Kiss-Ass Wisdom of Molly Ivins opening tonight at the Geffen, fit…
It's opening night, and the writer of Seatbelts Required feels as if seatbelts are indeed required as she sits in the audience watching the first public performance of her play. The tens…
City Garage is finally connecting the theatrical and the visual arts at Bergamot Station, re-setting Neil LaBute's early performance art piece, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, within an art …
Adam Silver began producing theater at the age of six, and he continues at the age of 25 with the LA premiere of Adam Szymkowicz' Nerve, staged by fellow ex-Chicagoan Michael Matthews at El …
Raymond J. Barry's Awake in a World That Encourages Sleep attempts to explore economic inequity, war, power and other global themes through a three-character one-act. Barry, who also directs…
Jane Kaczmarek will start in the Geffen's Good People, directed by Matt Shakman...Hershey Felder steps behind the scenes of Mona Golabek's show...January is a big month for free readings ser…
Will Leslie Jordan ever run out of material for his autobiographical solo shows? Probably not, if his mother has anything to say about it -- which she does. Director David Galligan helps Jor…
City Garage revives an early Neil LaBute play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance, but re-locates it from a topless bar to a high-end art gallery, befitting City Garage's …
