As she takes a break from rehearsing Rose Cottages in the sylvan setting of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, director Heidi Helen Davis is in her element. She's directing a play at the To…
I began writing The Devil and Daisy Jane in 2004 when co-creator Jeremy Lewit and I were both living and working in New York City. What began as an unemployed performer's desire to chann…
Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy, at Broad Stage, is more about the oft-depicted subject of mortality than it is about health care, and it loses some of its edge as a result. D is for D…
All the world's a stage. You might not agree with that sentiment. You might wish to argue or debate it. But as you like it or not, you'd be foolish to deny its cultural impact gi…
INSIDER spotlights International Theatre Festival  invasion of LA, Ventura and Calabasas, the premiere of Justin Tanner's 22nd play, Day Drinkers, the cabaret showcase of Brett Rybeck,…
Christopher Kuhl, a Los Angeles-based lighting designer, has been selected for Center Theatre Group's 2011 Richard E. Sherwood Award. The Sherwood Award provides financial support for earl…
Veteran TV comedy and variety writer Kenny Solms discusses his dramatic examination of his own life, via a fictional alter-ego, in It Must Be Him at the Edgemar Center. READ MORE
Playwright Steve Yockey and director Abigail Deser discuss the art of their recent collaboration on the premiere of his Heavier Than..., a play based on the Theseus and the Minotaur myth, op…
Cabrillo Musc Theatre occupies a venue that Cabrillo artistic director Lewis Wilkenfeld describes as the largest theatrical house between Los Angeles and San Francisco -- the 1,800-seat Kavl…
SpaceFinderLA.org is the new go-to Web site for space rental in LA County. There are venues all over LA County that spark and serve the creative imagination but until now, trying to find …
Discipline, doubt and kale are among a few of Anna Deavere Smith's favorite things as she brings Let Me Down Easy, her solo show on health care, to the Broad Stage. READ MORE
Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bure…
In The Hunter Davis Christmas Special, I attempt to put on a Christmas Special in tribute to my late grandfather. Everything that can go wrong does, including the show getting moved to Ju…
On Saturday, July 23 and Sunday July 24, REDCAT will open up its theater to host State of Independence: A Global Forum on Altern…
The Troubies are "devised" and they're capable of touring, as they proved with successive weekend of Fleetwood Macbeth in Burbank and La Mirada. Of course they're also sidesplitting and orig…
A chance meeting a few years ago between Broad Stage director Dale Franzen and David Babani, her counterpart at London's Menier Chocolate Factory [pronounced men-YAY], has culminated in the …
Neil Patrick Harris' staging of The Expert at the Card Table based on a book written in 1902 by "S.W. Erdnase" (a pseudonym), opened Friday at the Edye, the smaller second space at Broad Sta…
A number of years ago, I was given an ultimatum that led to separating from my wife. I chose the life of an actor over my marriage -- because I knew too well that my broken dream would h…
A Noise Within announces the first season in its new and bigger Pasadena theater, and Center Theatre Group will first host Ebony Rep's A Raisin in the Sun at the Douglas and then produce the…
Three highly-trained American Special Forces soldiers return home from the war zone. Their newly-promoted leader"tormented by symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), issues of rac…
It's a dangerous thing to ask someone to write about the process of his directorial debut"in my case, Stephen Dietz's Fiction running at the Underground Theatre until July 31"the week after …
So it seems these two MFA grads from UCLA and a transplant from Franklin, Massachusetts become acquainted at the Actors' Gang and decide to put on a play, actually four plays. Along the …
The Chance Theater is taking a chance on the oft-protested satire, Jerry Springer: The Opera, and it's a compelling clash of luxurious music and astoundingly graphic profanities. Shakesp…
Longtime friends and frequent co-stars Christa Jackson and Sally Struthers are again performing their hit show about two gal pals from an earlier era, Always… Patsy Cline. Â Ted Swindley…
The future can be a scary thing. New technology, especially social media, is shifting the way people interact with each other and even with art. From June 16-18, I was able to join the might…