Revivals of the hilarious Kvetch and the moving Falsettos reveal similarities -- and differences -- between the two. South Street stinks. How the World Began shows us both sides of a debate …
The Shakespeare authorship dispute comes to a head as the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles bestows its Crystal Quill Awards on three adherents of different positions in the debate -- fi…
Jeff McLaughlin had never set foot in a trailer park when he designed the sprawling interior of a trailer for Bakersfield Mist at the Fountain. It's one of of three McLaughlin designs that w…
The theme for this year AxS Festival, a project by the Pasadena Arts Council in conjunction with the city's scientific institutions, is "Fire and Water." In one of the shows, a site-specific…
So this Catholic who has never set foot in a synagogue is asked to direct this play about what it means to be a Jew. Darin Anthony tells the rest of the story as he prepares to open his West…
Converting his memoir Hyper-Chondriac into a solo show at Asylum Lab, former stand-up comic Brian Frazer had to cut 256 pages down to 80 minutes and then learn to commit 100% to his own scri…
Thomas Fiscella, an actor in the baseball-oriented Honus & Me at MainStreet in Rancho Cucamonga, ruminates on the connections between theater and baseball. The production is in a pro…
Voice Lessons invades the Valley. Life Could Be a Dream in La Mirada. Plays by Juan Mayorga and Miguel Pinero are on their way. Michael Donovan wins casting kudos. Penny Safranek, who used t…
Staging I Love Lucy episodes in a 99-seat theater is harder than it looks. The actors, producers and director Rick Sparks talk about the challenges in the Live on Stage version at Greenw…
Odalys Nanin didn't quite believe it when she first read that Mercedes de Acosta and Greta Garbo had a long love affair. But then she read the letters herself, and the result was her play Ga…
More tales from John Leguizamo's life are about to take over the Montalban Theatre, in Leguizamo's latest solo, Ghetto Klown. Here he talks about how he prepares for his on-stage self-th…
Brian Kerwin and Leslie Hicks consider their roles as a middle-aged blogger and a luddite whose marriage may not survive the latest affront to the man's peace of mind in Stephen Metcalfe's T…
Connie chats with Iris composer Danny Elfman, Joe Manganiello, David Patrick Harris, Christina Hendricks and others at Cirque du Soleil's state-of-the-art opening-night Iris party, in th…
Director Charlie Mount found that Edward Albee's Seascape, with its lizards wondering if they should continue to evolve, spoke to his own midlife sensibility. But he felt the need to extend …
The opening of Cirque du Soleil's astonishing new Iris at the Kodak Theatre raises a self-serving but inevitable question within the LA theater community " "what's in it for us"? On the one …
Poor Dog Group partners with The Last Bookstore in downtown LA to launch a on-site performance series called "Book-A-Month." This Friday, September 30 marks the third and final weekly instal…
British director Richard Seyd returns to La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts to helm season opener Noises Off, a play he considers "the most successful farce ever written," after havin…
Kate Bergh's costumes can be seen in two big shows right now -- South Street at the Pasadena Playhouse and Reprise's Cabaret at UCLA. After reading about the designer and her work, you can s…
Kristina Poe's Love Sick emphasizes the "sick" as much as the "love." The playwright and director David Fofi discuss the latest production from Elephant Theatre. READ MORE
Reprise's revival of Kiss Me Kate was amply kissed by Ovation voters. They gave it 14 nominations -- the most for any single show in this year's contest. The Reprise team of Jason Alexander …
Multi-ethnic All My Sons staged at the Matrix while Mary Wilson channels Lena Horne at Musicians Institute. Cynthia Adam Prochaska recalls Doing Jason Manly at Writers Junction …
Why are the streets suddenly erupting with seemingly impromptu theater? It's Flash Theater L.A. Don't just sit there -- tweet about it to your friends. READ MORE
Twenty-four years after its US premiere in downtown LA, Cirque du Soleil is finally becoming a permanent Angeleno. After Iris, a new Cirque show about the essence of cinema, opens Sunday, it…
Actors Co-op, Hollywood's Christian-based professional theater company, is celebrating the big 2-0 with a new production of an old favorite, The 1940's Radio Hour. The director, company vete…
As Poor Behavior opens at the Mark Taper Forum, Connie chats with David Dean Bottrell, Charlayne Woodard, Chad Coleman and Sharon Lawrence, at the theater and at the opening-night party. …