1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
The Biller Family Foundation has opened a new source of private funding for smaller LA theater companies with its annual BEST awards. The first batch of grants has provided $47,500 to a tota…
Gilbert Cates, the founder and producing director of the Geffen Playhouse, died Monday at the age of 77. During his tenure, Geffen productions earned 119 Ovation Award nominations and won 27…
A Noise Within threw a big bash for the opening of its new home in Pasadena, and Connie chatted with Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard and other supporters before and after the company performed T…
A Noise Within opens its new Pasadena home with a Twelfth Night set in pre-revolutionary Cuba. And Latino Theater Company moves to LATC's largest venue with Evelina Fernandez's Hope, set a f…
Norbert Weisser and Bruce Katzman, respectively, play the Commandant of a Nazi prison camp and the Jewish "mayor" of the camp, who collaborate on an elaborate charade in order to deceive a R…
Alice, a character created by Jacqueline Wright for her new play Have You Seen Alice?, might prefer to remain anonymous, but Wright describes why she won't let that happen. The play opens la…
Jim J. Bullock auditioned to replace Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Broadway's Hairspray, but he wasn't ready for it yet. After earning his stripes in several smaller roles in the show…
Do the serious parts of your play get all the laughs? No problem -- change the main character. That's what Patricia Lamkin did while writing Balancing the Moon, now opening at Zombie Joe's. …
Music Theatre International (MRI) brings tuners to your iPhone and Salome Jens portrays Hadassah co-founder Henrietta Szold.  Street rock tuner, The Playground, returns to LA whi…
Albie Selznick took up magic as a boy, finding solace in it after his father's death. Then he gradually left it behind in his professional pursuits, becoming a co-founder of The Mums and a w…
Cornerstone Theater's next big cycle will include nine plays on hunger and food-related subjects over the next five years. But first, the public is invited to two weeks of appetizers under t…
A Noise Within finally moves into its long-awaited new home in east Pasadena, with a Twelfth Night opening Saturday. Artistic directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott show off the…
As Twyla Tharp's Come Fly With Me arrives at the Pantages, Twyla Tharp resident director John Selya discusses the heartfelt break dancing he'll be doing, the long-running romance between Tha…
Maile Flanagan is a commuter within Tannersville -- shuttling between performances of two Justin Tanner plays, Voice Lessons at the Whitefire and Day Drinkers at the Odyssey, plus an occasio…
Two revivals of plays from 1947, both of them about how civilians behaved on the home front during World War II, offer distinctive twists. Antaeus' revival of Noel Coward's Peace in Our Time…
Longtime Angeleno Kurt Maxey saw his first fully produced play, Pity the Proud Ones, open on Saturday at Los Angeles Theatre Center. Developed and produced by LATC-based Robey Theatre Compan…
Gates McFadden was a TV model at the age of five. Now that she's the artistic director of Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, she's able to express her feelings about highly pressured childhoods…
Luca Ellis didn't move to LA with a plan to make it big as a crooner. But as he listened to more and more Sinatra recordings, he realized that he's got Sinatra under his skin and in his voic…
A Christmas Story plus West Side Story equals the Troubies in A Christmas Westside Story. Jerker returns to Hollywood. "Good morning, Long Beach," as Musical Theatre West prepares Hairspray.…
Preparing for the Ovation Awards ceremony on Nov. 14, Ovation nominees gathered last Sunday at a reception at the Norris Center in Rolling Hills Estates. Two of the Ovation Honorary Awards w…
Kathryn Graf and her son felt isolated in their new home in Connecticut. So Graf, whose solo show Surviving David had explored the death of her husband, wrote the new Hermetically Sealed,Â�…
Women in Theatre will present major awards to Debbie Reynolds, Lee Melville and Lee Meriwether at its 8th annual Red Carpet Awards ceremony in Burbank on Saturday at noon. Several performanc…
Matrix Theatre producer Joe Stern hopes his revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons will attract multi-racial, multi-ethnic audiences, thanks to its mixture of white, black, Asian and Latino …
Jenny Sullivan, the only "Artistic Associate" at Ventura's Rubicon Theatre, has that title because of her contributions over the theater's 14 years, primarily as a director. Her staging of T…
Noel Coward didn't spend all his time examining the foibles of the witty rich. In Peace in Our Time, he also imagined what might have happened in England if it had been taken over by the Naz…
