1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
Bill Cain's 9 Circles examines a Iraq War veteran who goes through the nine circles of hell within the military bureaucracy when he's accused of crimes after his return to the US. The Bootle…
If Sherlock Holmes were to give voice lessons, but then was discovered to be an immigrant from the third rock from the sun, you might get someone resembling French Stewart, who will host the…
The director of Open Fist Theatre's revival of Machinal pays tribute to playwright Sophie Treadwell's rage against the machine of 1928-style American capitalism. Treadwell's work encouraged …
Stephen Metcalfe's The Tragedy of the Commons isn't quite a tragedy, but it an uncommonly penetrating portrait of an aging blogger who's in a modern California story reminiscent of The Cherr…
Julian Sands moves from being the one performer in a Pinter evening to directing the one performer, Neil Dickson, in Stephen Wyatt's The Standard Bearer. Inspired by the Falklands War, the p…
Ed Begley Jr. has revised his 2003 musical Cesar and Ruben for a student production at Santa Monica College. All of the songs are now in Spanish, but as before, the main subject is Cesar Cha…
A friend's sudden death inspired Brett Neveu to start writing the play that would become 4 Murders. It was originally produced by Chicago's A Red Orchid, where Neveu is an ensemble member. I…
The Fountain's Bakersfield Mist moves to an Actors' Equity contract. The Geffen Playhouse opens its kids' Scene Season. Lauri Fraser loves a good story at her salon series in Culver City. Pl…
Longtime friends Karen Black and David Proval play an aging Jewish couple in the South in Moses Supposes, at the Zephyr. Black reveals what every actor should know, and Proval discloses a pr…
Engine29, another pop-up arts journalism web site, is preparing for a November burst of activity. But don't confuse it with last June's Engine28 website, which also arose out of USC's Annenb…
Virginia Grise started writing in between the classes she taught at a Texas middle school. Then she decided to concentrate on the writing in a move to LA. In her blu, at Company of Angels, c…
Todd Nielsen returns to International City Theatre to helm a show dear to his heart -- The Robber Bridegroom, opening October 14. The multi-tasking director previously led a 1986 product…
Director Steven Sabel is opening a small black box in downtown LA, called Archway Studio/Theatre, as a supplement to his work running the Redlands Shakespeare Festival in a giant-size amphit…
I've Never Been So Happy and Monkey Adored are fables about animals behaving like humans, but they're very different in tone. Way to Heaven at the Odyssey is not only about Nazi p.r. efforts…
Center Theatre Group turned the Kirk Douglas Theatre lobby turned into a Wild West shindig for opening night of The Rude Mechs musical I've Never Been So Happy. Attendees were offered cowboy…
Three stories intersect in John Walch's The Dinosaur Within at the Boston Court. One is about an Aboriginal father and son from Australia, another is about a forgotten Hollywood star and the…
Center Theatre Group has selected seven LA-based playwrights for its 2011-2012 Writers' Workshop. They include Padraic Duffy, Larissa FastHorse, Sigrid Gilmer, Prince Gomolvilas, Jennifer H…
The co-producer and director of Fairy Tale Theatre recalls her own initial fascination with the transformative powers of theater and how that experience led to the current mission behind…
E.L. James had a hard time connecting with his previous children, who lived in other cities. But now that's he's living with his latest child, he was inspired to write and direct Nobody Walk…
LA Theatre Center and Women In Theatre give out awards while Rogue Machine premieres Daisy Foote's Bhutan.  Both Pasadena Playhouse and A Noise Within court Pasadena patrons. …
Sometimes evolution takes people in the direction of monkeys. An exercise that Henry Murray wrote about human beings evolved into a play about members of other species. The author writes abo…
The Rude Mechs, that Texas-based group of collaborating theater artists, go West to the Kirk Douglas Theatre once again, following in the wake of their Method Gun. This time, they're opening…
Anne Archer discusses her return to the stage as Jane Fonda in Terry Jastow's Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion at Edgemar Center for the Arts, what playing Mrs. Robinson in The Grad…
Ovation-nominated lighting designers Jeremy Pivnick (A Wither's Tale) and Ken Booth (A House Not Meant to Stand and The Train Driver) shed some light on their methods and their careers. Seve…
Take Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Re-set it in 1960 and add influences from The Sixth Sense and A Clockwork Orange. Director Shira Dubrovner explains her approach to Group Rep…
