1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
Robert Cucuzza rewrites August Strindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie line-by-line using a mash-up of "Pittsburghese" and Strindberg's lyricism plus renames the titular Julie's counterparts Donni…
"You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Thus spoke Asa Yoelson"better known to the world as Al Jolson"so resoundingly it became his catch phrase, trademark and battle cry all rolled into one. Tho…
Ghost Road Company's Ronnie Clark updates French philosopher Albert Camus' Le Malentendu or The Misunderstanding via a creative collaboration between composer David O, sound designer Cricket…
South Bay's Civic Light Opera ousted by City of Redondo Beach while LA Theatre Center's The Vault probes a Downtown LA murder.  Solo artist Antonio Sacre weaves his stories at Theatre …
LA STAGE Alliance announces the LA Dance Advance, an initiative to increase connections between Los Angeles area dance artists and regional and national audiences. LA Dance Advance is intend…
Wrestling was Diaz' first entree into the world of theatrics. He grew up a half hour from Manhattan and was frequently taken to see wrestling live at Madison Square Gardens, where he soon …
The inspiration behind Edward's House of String came last year while I was laying out pages for a children's picture book I was writing and illustrating.  At the time, I was living …
The night's big LA theater winners were Ben Guillory's Robey Theatre Company, who took home the Best Producer Award (local) in association with the Latino Theatre Company for The Reckoning…
After 15 years since the Long Beach Civic Light Opera (LBCLO) folded, the company's former artistic director Luke Yankee has come back to the Long Beach Performing Arts Center to direct No…
The genesis for Clara's Los Angeles came after hearing one too many friends, mostly from New York or Europe, say that LA has no history. I found myself needing to bring to light the hi…
My Name Is Rachel Corrie, one of the most debated plays of the last decade, finally arrives in LA at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum -- a venue not previously known for red-hot controvers…
It was a full-on celebration at the 4th Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theater Festival held this past weekend at Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC). Utilizing the theme "Raise the…
Celebration Theatre's new Artistic Director John Micheal Beck and Executive Director Micheal Kricfalusi discuss their creative "marriage," plans for the upcoming 29th season including What's…
INSIDER spotlights Firehouse, the waiver play that is going global over the Internet while Christine O'Donnell goes non-political LA Women's Theatre Project event.  International Ci…
If you were a teacher in grade school with both Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger in your class, you'd quickly learn to separate the two of them to opposite corners of the room. Even then…
No matter how much hurt a human being feels from disappointment in love, can this tangible pain be quantified scientifically? Can love be considered a science that can be studied and proven …
Despair in dramatic characters isn't necessarily dramatic. Woe-is-me on the stage can easily translate into woe-are-we in the audience. So should theaters ignore despairing, even suicidal ch…
A month and a half in as Center Theatre Group's new managing director, Edward Rada could not be happier. "For me this goes back to being eight years old and going to the Pasadena Playhouse. …
City Garage premieres new work by Charles L. Mee, Â while Levi Kreis croons an intimate concert to benefit Rubicon Theatre. Celebrity Autobiography offers its Music Edition at GRAMMY Theat…
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and its project partners are soliciting community input for the proposed Broadway Arts Center. Two separate surveys -- one for individu…
Zoe Perry is neither French nor Irish. Yet she successfully took on the accent and the brogue this past year, performing as a French teenager in Lillian Hellman's Autumn Garden with the A…
The NAACP Theatre Awards ceremonies in Hollywood on August 29 will be preceded by a weekend festival at Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown LA, including performances and panel discussion…
Rumor has it that next fall Betty Buckley will do a "musical Monday" at the Pantages Theatre to benefit the Actors Fund. These evenings are always special, and people are still talking about…
The official count of the crowd at Independent Shakespeare Company's Hamlet last night was 1,240 " a new record for the ISC. Because attendance is free, with no tickets required, the number …
In Rick Pagano's Treat Yourself Like Cary Grant, a Death Row convict imagines he's Cary Grant, presenting unexpected challenges to his defense attorney. The writer discusses the play in …
