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Jason Lott had never seen "It's a Wonderful Life." Then he became the only actor in a stage version, "Wonderful Life," which he has brought from Virginia to Los Angeles.
Nearly $300,000 of NEA grants go to LA-area stage companies....Miki Shelton is Antaeus Company's new executive director...Valery Ortiz plays a new role in Casa 0101's "In the Heights"...
Let them entertain you...as they ask you for donations. Antaeus and Rogue Machine are employing nudity in their year-end fund-raising campaigns.
As "The Steward of Christndom" opens at the Mark Taper Forum, Connie chats with Dorian Harewood, Taraji Henson, Bill Irwin, Brian Dennehy's understudy Adrian Sparks and Steven Robman.
Steven Leigh Morris, beginning a monthly column at LA STAGE Times, emphasizes the importance of retaining professional critics during the Yelp era.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix. Another thing about the holidays…the effect they have on my ...Continue Reading
Ben Vereen still has "magic to do" -- this year as a genie in "Aladdin and His Winter Wish," the holiday-oriented panto at Pasadena Playhouse.
Where are the locals in the Wallis' post-"Parfumerie" season? Bette Midler evokes Sue Mengers. "The Steward of Christendom" and "Peter and the Starcatcher" occupy CTG's downtown venues.
Marnie Olson says her "Merry F***in' Christmas, Y'all" is closer to a horror film than to a holiday heart-warmer. First produced at the former Psychic Visions Theatre, now it's at the Eclect…
At the Ahmanson opening of "Peter and the Starcatcher," Connie chats with co-director Roger Rees, cast member John Sanders, Marion Ross, Alan Mandell and Barrett Foa.
in "Parfumerie" -- the first play at the new Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills -- Arye Gross plays an employee of a perfume shop in 1937 Hungary. It's not just a rom-com. .
The small-company Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles and its midsize counterpart are merging...Hollywood Fringe Festival dates are June 12-29...Kila Kitu directs...
Actress Amanda Weier also directs "The Invisible Play" at Theatre of NOTE and helps Open Fist search for a new theater space.
Alliance Repertory is returning after three years of dormancy with the spiked-punch Christmas show "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues," featuring Daisy Eagan.
On the heels of a great success in "Fallen Angels," Mary-Pat Green turns her attention to Sebastian Barry's "The Steward of Christendom" at the Taper.
Paul Sand is opening West End Theatre, an indoor cabaret on the western tip of the Santa Monica Pier, with "Kurt Weill at the Cuttlefish Hotel."
Five small bits for your LA arts fix. Guys, why are the holidays so stressful? You'd think that ...Continue Reading
Phil Olson, whose "Mom's Gift" opens Friday at Group Rep, was introduced to the idea of doing theater by a Tampa police training film.
The LA Weekly cuts back on its theater coverage. Two Scandinavian plays, Strindberg's "Creditors" and "Save Me," an adaptation of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," bounce off each other.
Edward Tournier, who was active in small LA theater for seven years before moving to New York, is back in town as an actor in the "Peter and the Starcatcher" tour, soon playing the Ahmanson.
The LA STAGE Alliance offices will be closed Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 in observance of ...Continue Reading
Most of the area's major artistic directors will appear on a diversity panel at Pasadena Playhouse on Dec 16...Hal Landon tackles Scrooge #34...Edward Everett Horton's LA theater connection.…
Coco Blignaut produces "God's Gypsy," about St. Teresa of Ãvila, and also plays Teresa. She recruited Lili Haydn to do the music. The play opens Saturday at the Lillian Theatre.
Five small bits for your LA arts fix. I've gotten a bit obsessive about my calendar these past ...Continue Reading
After last year's gap in the holiday tradition of presenting "La Virgen de Guadalupe" at the downtown LA cathedral, it returns, in Evelina Fernandez's adaptation for Latino Theater Company.
