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Sherry Glaser created a durable hit, Family Secrets, 21 years ago in LA, but now she's concentrating more on the re-awakening of Mother Nature. It's the subject of The Second Coming: …
Frank Mancuso, Geffen Playhouse's board chairman, will temporarily become the playhouse's producing director -- a title that had been held by the late Gil Cates. A special executive sess…
Joel Daavid, best known as a designer, is directing as well as designing his stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll screenplay at the Lillian. He's incorporating many storytelling…
Ralph Tropf tries to makes a small-cast farce contemporary by writing about a threesome in which a younger woman is tempting to both an older woman and her husband. Tropf's The Animal Within…
Will Metro-adjacent theaters get a boost from the increased frequency of evening trains? Wicked returns again to the Pantages, while the Ahmanson loses Funny Girl. Bets Malone cannot escape …
The ship ahoy at Eclectic Company Theatre is a revival of Michael Van Duzer's Posing Strip Pirates, a parody of the gay pulp novels of the '50s and '60s. Van Duzer writes about the liberatin…
David Dean Bottrell has bounced from actor to playwright to screenwriter to actor and now, to director, as he makes his staging debut with the Colony Theatre's Travels With My Aunt. Mean…
Robin Givens, starring in Blues for an Alabama Sky at Pasadena Playhouse, gets all choked up about playing Pearl Cleage's sad and struggling blues singer in Harlem during the Depression. Dir…
Stephanie Liss visited the PLO in Lebanon and the Israeli military 25 years ago, in order to research a TV movie -- which the network then turned down. Now she's turning some of the material…
It feels like teen spirit -- and team spirit -- at the Ahmanson Theatre, where Adrienne Warren and Taylor Louderman prepare for their starring roles in Bring It On: The Musical. No, they…
Johnny O'Callaghan's solo show Who's Your Daddy? at the Little Victory Theatre relates the tale of his adventures adopting an orphan in Uganda -- and more. His past also includes a stint in …
Anna Gunn tackles the role of Marie Sklodowska Curie in Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, at the Geffen Playhouse. The play covers some of the less radiant episodes of th…
Playwright Laurel Ollstein sometimes squabbles with director Laurel Ollstein as they collaborate on Esther's Moustache, at studio/stage. Can this partnership be saved? READ MORE
The Geffen Playhouse has been closely identified with its founder and producing Gil Cates. Let's take a quick tour through the Cates years and then ask the inevitable question -- what now? W…
Director Jessica Kubzansky talks about the LA premiere of Julia Cho's The Language Archive, at East West Players. It's about a linguist who tries to preserve dying languages but can't commun…
Bernardo Bernardo, who performed in the 2007 LA premiere of The Romance of Magno Rubio in 2007, returns to Lonnie Carter's play by directing it in two languages, English and Tagalog, at [Ins…
A public forum on the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, which would re-vitalize the downtown LA street and many of its historic theaters, is taking place at one of those landmark theaters, …
Theatre Banshee, the Irish-oriented troupe currently producing Dolly West's Kitchen, is up for the Ovation Award for best season at the Nov. 14 ceremony. Co-artistic director Leslie Baldwin …
Ed Asner revives FDR for Theatricum Benefit and Tanya Saracho's El Nogalar premieres at Fountain Theatre. Will Manus's Bridge moves to the Complex; Alfred Molina and David Krumholtz…
LA stage veteran Carolyn Hennesy will host the Ovation Awards ceremony, stepping in for French Stewart, who had to withdraw because of a professional conflict. Also, here's a list of the pre…
Olympia Dukakis and Marco Barricelli are appearing in the only two roles in Morris Panych's Vigil at the Mark Taper Forum. Barricelli talks during most of the play, and Dukakis mostly listen…
Since its initial appearance at the small Hudson Theatre, Roger Bean's Life Could Be a Dream has graduated to bigger theaters for each of the last two years. Now it's at La Mirada Theatre. B…
Director Sheryl Kaller discusses her long bi-coastal journey with Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall from first reading to Off-Broadway sensation to Broadway Tony Award nominee. She gleaned new ins…
Alan Alda, Gordon Davidson, Michael Ritchie, Susan Loewenberg and Sheldon Epps recall the warmth and versatility of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse producing director who died Monday. READ M…
As a young man, Stefan Marks was struck speechless by a young woman he encountered, but he did nothing about it -- until he wrote Hello, which tells his imaginary story of what might have be…
