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French Stewart explains why LA's small theaters are like weird little pirate ships, how his June wedding in New Orleans -- to the actress who plays Keely in Louis & Keely -- made for gre…
Are you interested in the creative evolution of Downtown Los Angeles? The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs invites members of the creative community -- artists, professio…
Roger Guenveur Smith brings baseball legends to the stage at LATC while Mike Burstyn morphs into Al Jolson at El Portal.  Melora Marshall  goes even further with Richard III and INSIDE…
Soap opera star Judith Chapman tackles a solo show about the troubled movie star Vivien Leigh at Rogue Machine, where Chapman was the first board president. Rick Foster's play is set just da…
CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) has announced a free application workshop on August 28 for its 2012 CHIME in Southern California program. CHIME is a mentorship program that all…
Sandra Bernhard is discussing her new album, I Love Being Me Don't You? A blend of her signature brand of critically acclaimed comedy with two musical covers that showcase her idiosyncratic …
Sarah Treem is moving from writing HBO's In Treatment and Netflix's House of Cards to watching a workshop performance of her newest play, When We Were Young and Unafraid, at the Ojai Playwri…
I hope that when people experience Next Window, Please, they identify with the characters and the sense of family that comes from working together. "What would I do in this kind of situati…
The current This and last year's The Wake, CTG productions at the Douglas, have a lot in common -- too much, in the larger context of CTG programming. This is Chekhovian, in a sense, but the…
Ghost Road Company artistic director Katharine Noon discusses the group's recent collaboration with Studium Teatralne in Warsaw, Poland. The companies have different structures and working m…
The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation has announced a new funding opportunity for small, Los Angeles-based non-profit theater organizations with an annual operating income between $10…
From City Garage's new residence, to Natasha Middleton making her Ford Ampitheatre debut, and the world premier of Life on This Couch it's all here in this week's LA Stage Insider! Â READ …
Nonprofit arts organizations are invited to attend two webcasts on August 11 and 12 about funding opportunities through the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Sustaina…
Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo, the married team who have run Santa Monica Playhouse since 1973, continue the playhouse's 50th anniversary celebration with Dolls--Not Your Usual Love Story! …
Corbin Bleu discusses his August 5 Hollywood Bowl debut as Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray, why musicals are now considered cool and what's up with his Food Network fandom.  READ MORE
Gilles Marini, a French-born actor with modeling, movie and TV credits, will appear in his first play, Melissa James Gibson's This, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. But he's accustomed to tackli…
The talk frequently turns to Iraq when amng the regular diners at the counter of an LA restaurant during the deadliest years of the Iraq war, in Chuck Faerber's Counter Men, at the Whitefire…
Gospel According to First Squad, the third play in Tom Burmester's War Cycle, brings the chaos of America's involvement in Afghanistan to full-bodied life. Gregory Nabours' delightful song c…
Three years ago, at the very first organizational board meeting of my now fledgling theater company, Whitmore Eclectic, a member of my board pulled me aside and said, "You guys should …
Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble walks away from the Powerhouse while Luke Yankee returns to Long Beach Performing Arts Center.  Saturday Night Live diva Ana Gasteyer does a turn at Cat…
East West Players, the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theater of color in the country, announces Face of the Fut…
The application is currently being distributed electronically through e-mail and is available on the Culver City website. Deadline for submission is September 7, 2011. Performances may b…
The inspiration for my new play Bridge came when I read an article about the great tenor sax player, Sonny Rollins. Â At the height of his career, Rollins stopped playing in public for two…
Hal Linden and Christina Pickles have circled each other's orbit since both became Broadway regulars in the early '60s, then network television stars on Barney Miller and St. Elsewhere -- …
Despite his new Broadway hit Catch Me If You Can and a trunk load of successful scores representing over 15 years of memorable film music (When Harry Met Sally, South Park, and Sister Act), …
