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In 2011, LA Times theater critic Charles McNulty devoted much of his space to only four of LA's theater companies and too much of his time to theater in New York and London. Many of the "99%…
LA STAGE Times is taking a brief hiatus next week and will be back online January 3. Wishing all our readers a happy holiday and a joyous 2012! READ MORE
A Noise Within's Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott receive A.C.T. honors while Bess Rous joins cast of The Jacksonian at the Geffen.  A new foursome of "adults b…
LA County's annual free holiday celebration at the Music Center, which is broadcast live for three hours on KCET-TV, requires some complicated planning and split-second timing behind the…
Director Heidi Helen Davis has died from breast cancer. She's probably best know for staging more than 20 Theatricum Botanicum productions since 1988, but she also staged the premiere of EM …
A half-dozen LA stage managers discuss the stable temperament required for their job. Then they recall a few incidents in which their temperaments were sorely tried by missing actors, abusiv…
A look at some of the highlights of LA theater in 2o11 embraces LA plays, LA writers, CTG's smallest shows, the return of Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within's last Glendale season, two shows…
We asked a few of LA's small theater companies what they're hoping to get from Santa this year, and we got a range of responses, from liquor to Lekos. READ MORE
Fela!, the musical about the late Nigerian political activist and Afrobeat star, opened in LA Wednesday. Among those chatting before and after the event were Thelma Houston, CCH Pounder, Kim…
LA County arts education providers can apply to be included in an online directory that offers free marketing opportunities to reach 97,000 teachers and administrators. READ MORE
George Clooney to hit the boards...for one night. South Bay CLO introduces a new series at El Segundo Playhouse,while still searching for a hoe for it larger musicals series. Sloane Robinson…
Sahr Ngaujah, an American-born son of a father from Sierra Leone and an American mother, portrays the late Afrobeat star and political activist Fela Kuti in the Bill T. Jones-directed musica…
Throughout the Pasadena Playhouse's recent bankruptcy, the Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse, an organization of volunteer workers, tenaciously kept the faith. They have done so since 1979, …
Among the more unusual holiday shows, the Troubies' A Christmas Westside Story is riotously entertaining. Atomic Holiday Free Fall! at the Actors' Gang and A Chanukah Carol at Theatre 68 are…
Playwright Kerr Seth Lordygan turned away from his previously "twisted" and "slapstick silly" work to write a play about three seniors forced to leave their assisted living home when it sudd…
Troubadour Theater's A Christmas Westside Story opened Friday at the Falcon Theatre, followed by a party with great meatballs and lots of chatting with Kathleen Marshall LaGambina, Matt Walk…
Tired of wondering what to do with all your old theater programs? The Los Angeles Public Library already has collected more than 30,000 of them, dating back to the 19th century. Your contrib…
Native Angeleno Stefan Haves infused his productions in LA's 99-seat arena with circus skills in the late '80s and '90s, then started working behind the scenes on circuses in San Francisco a…
Four veteran Wonderettes -- Julie Dixon Jackson, Misty Cotton, Bets Malone, and Lowe Taylor -- discuss their Winter Wonderettes gig at Long Beach's Musical Theatre West. This latest producti…
The Ahmanson gets Follies but Book of Mormon goes to Hollywood's Pantages. Ojai not ready for full Equity theater. Nerve and Expecting to Fly debut in January while Peter Gallagher morphs in…
The house managers of LA theaters have many roles to play and many stories to tell. They encounter texters, chicken eaters, sing-along specialists, surreptitious pets, fountain splashers, fa…
There's no resting on their Ovation laurels for the Troubies' Matt Walker and Beth Kennedy. The artistic (Walker) and producing (Kennedy) directors of Troubadour Theater Company discuss thei…
During rehearsals for My Three Angels at Group Rep, one particular cast member created chaos. Director Larry Eisenberg fired her, but now he fears that she's trying to get revenge by ruining…
Shinsai: Theaters for Japan on March 11 will mark the anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake with short performances at American theaters, designed to benefit Japanese theater arti…
Lisaun Whittingham relates the process of understudying -- with three guaranteed performances -- the woman's role in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre. She had never read the…
