Force 12 is a project developed from my mentor Ron Allen's unedited stream of consciousness retelling aspects of his life. This is a story of a Poet who loses touch with reality, and is fo…
Roxanne Hart, now appearing in A Death in Colombia, has found new inspiration from working in LA's small theaters. READ MORE
According to an old cliche, you get only one opportunity to make a first impression. That impression, however, can often assume folkloric dimensions or an iconic status when recounted nu…
Americans for the Arts has announced that once again the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is facing cuts. Yesterday, a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations su…
One week from opening night, Denise Crosby and Jamie Rose are taking a brief respite from a demanding rehearsal schedule for the premiere of the two-person comedy, Revisiting Wildfire, by pr…
Ed Harris, Amy Madigan headline premiere of Beth Henley play at Geffen, Celebrity Autobiography channels the tell-alls, La Mirada and Actors Co-op announce seasons, while Michelle Danner …
I have acted in plays at drama school. I have been an assistant director for an Off-Off Broadway play in New York. But it was when I was a playwright's assistant focusing on the script, keep…
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has announced $4,118,000 in two-year grants to 184 nonprofit arts organizations through its Organizational Grant Program (OGP). These grants are t…
Kathleen Freeman's 1945 Code of Ethics for stage actors, the subject of an article on LA stage Times in 2009, has been raising additional comment in the blogosphere recently. Meanwhile, …
The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), in partnership with The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is pleased to announce the next round of the Next…
Sam Anderson and Corryn Cummins discuss finding the humanity within their characters in David Harrower's one-act psychodrama Blackbird at Rogue Machine. He plays Ray, who abused her characte…
Walking into Musical Theatre West's administrative headquarters in Long Beach, you might wonder if you time-traveled back a few decades"bursting racks of glittering '80s costumes for MTW's u…
When I was 20, I did not worry about writing something "new" or "different" in subject matter or form, although my work often was perceived as such. I still do not concern myself with a ques…
For playwright Jennifer Haley, the concept of identity, much like the theater, is a construct of both deeply personal and communal elements. Haley puts her theories of identity under the m…
Fagin is missing from Twist -- and good riddance. The counterpart to the original Oliver Twist's Nancy is much changed too, but one really bad guy is worth hissing. The Twist book improves o…
Like many people of Chinese descent, I have a complex relation with the "motherland". Do I love Chinese cuisine? Yes. Do I believe in eating dog meat? Of course not. Do I love Chinese hist…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival ended this past Sunday after presenting nearly 1,000 performances of over 200 productions of theater, dance, musicals, cabaret, comedy, film, workshops and …
Clowning around on public transportation is usually frowned upon. However, soon there will be a lot of real Bozos riding the Metro Rail. The Watts Village Theater Company (WVTC) in associat…
Controversial Jerry Springer:  The Opera not entirely welcome in OC, while theater travels the rails  inMeet Me@Metro II.  Long-running New Eyes moves to the Odyssey asÂ�…
For the first time, the National Endowment for the Arts looks at future job prospects for a variety of artist occupations in Artist Employment Projections through 2018. This report examines…
Tell my mother you love her, she'll get a little misty and"depending on how well she knows you"say "thank you" or "I love you, too."Â Tell her "why" you love her, she'll start to fidget a…
Pacific Resident Theatre's Artistic Director Marilyn Fox discusses her new show of J.M Barrie one-acts entitled Barrie: Back to Back, being invited to bring Vince Melocchi's Julia to New …
Michael Shepperd didn't pull any punches when he picked his last show as artistic director Celebration Theatre. Bash'd! -- a Gay Rap Opera is a hard-hitting musical production, and Celebrati…
Connie chats about Debbie Allen's Twist with some of its youngest and most remarkable cast members. Â READ MORE
Rogue Artists Ensemble differs from most theater companies in that it's run by a collective of multi-disciplinary artists and designers rather than by actors, writers or directors. By combin…