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While growing up, Michael Matthews was the target of gay-bashing bullies. Later, in Chicago, he directed a play about that subject. Now he has brought that play, What's Wrong With Angry?, to…
Best known to America as Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart began her career on the stage. As she prepares to perform the role of Nora in A Doll House for LA Theatre Works, she recalls some of h…
The Reprise Theatre Company led the 2011 Ovation Award nominations with (17), followed by the Troubadour Theater Company (16), Center Theatre Group (12) and Demand Productions (11). Most n…
The Vault: Unlocked presents a "devised" production about the redevelopment of downtown LA, in the heart of that redevelopment, at LATC. One of the directors of this young company writes abo…
Watch tonight's 2011 Ovation Award nominees announcement live from the Falcon Theatre in Burbank on LASTAGETimes.com beginning at 7:00 pm. READ MORE
Michael Ritchie's grade of using LA content and LA talent is moving from last year's F to this year's C, thanks to scheduled shows at the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, if no…
Victoria Marks was thinking mostly about her son when she began to create Medium Big Inefficient Considerably Unbalanced Dance, but it grew into a dance about her own connections with others…
[Inside] the Ford hosts three new stage works while El Portal Theatre unveils a more contempo Snow White.  Albie Selznick does his magic at Santa Monica Playhouse while comics Howard S…
Michelle Duffy isn't just for musicals. The Ovation winner for Can Can is co-starring in Steven Dietz's non-musical Shooting Star at the Colony Theatre. What's next -- a reality TV show? REA…
Marriages hit a rough spot in a supposedly tranquil weekend in the country in Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior, opening Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum. Director Doug Hughes and Rebeck analyze …
I've always had this desire to weave tales and imagine a world different from the one I'm living in. Why tell stories? Sometimes it's simply to entertain. Sometimes it's to pass the time, an…
Center Theatre Group and the LA Stage Alliance hosted a reception at Corkbar in downtown LA to welcome South Coast Repertory's new Artistic Director Marc Masterson to the Los Angeles theat…
Cabaret may not be as "under-produced" as many of Reprise's productions. But director Marcia Milgrom Dodge believes she has come up with some new ways of interpreting this dark and distu…
Librettist Sibyl O'Malley discusses her work on Zoophilic Follies. It covers a queen-ram romance, a maze and the perils of flying too close to the sun, for REDCAT's New Original Works Fe…
The panel and talkback following My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Theatricum Botanicum is much more dramatic than the solo play itself, especially if devoted advocates of Israeli and Palestin…
East West Players ventures into contemporary Bombay with Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance. The title takes off from Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance -- a signal that it's a co…
A group of 20-30 area theatre leaders are meeting on 9/10/2011, for a Theatre Vision/Council Task Force Day, to create a draft of a vision and a council structure for the Greater LA Theatre …
Matthew McCray and Son of Semele found a way to examine 9/11 from a West Coast perspective by asking for some revisions of Stephanie Fleischmann' s What the Moon Saw, or "I Only Appear to Be…
Jon Courie discovered that a negative review in The New York Times wasn't necessarily fatal to one of his plays, which now has a new name -- To Carry the Child -- as well as a revised script…
Alfred Molina turns Red for 2012 MTF season. Anne Archer to morph into Jane Fonda whileBrian Frazer surveys all his ills at Theatre Asylum. Sally Kellerman does a trush turn at VIt…
South Coast Repertory has announced it is expanding its 2011-2012 Studio Series to include Los Angeles county theater companies. The series partners SCR with "eclectic and adventurous loca…
Director Richard Israel helms Falsettos as the inaugural production for YADA's new Third Street Theatre and explains why a "small musical with big themes" offered him a great opportunity to …
Director Anne Bogart discusses SITI Company's production of Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa, her new criteria for projects at 60 and why 'just keep walking' is a mantra she…
Eight free workshops for arts organizations considering applying to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Organizational Grant Program (OGP) will be held throughout LA county between S…
David J's refashions his Black Dahlia song cycle into a new multi-disciplinary musical play The Chanteuse and the Devil's Muse that presents a chilling theory regarding the identity of the f…
