Silver Lake's Moving Arts Celebrates 20th Anniversary By Bringing Back 20 of Its Plays by Bill Raden

Theater is ephemeral. No matter how transformative or transcendent or thrillingly hair-raising a particular production might be, unlike a TV show or a movie or a YouTube clip, once the final…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00pm on May 31, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Richard III In Overdrive by Steven Leigh Morris

Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week.…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 6:13pm on May 30, 2013☆⚑

A Solo Show About Growing Up a Pornographer's Daughter by Siran Babayan

Liberty Bradford Mitchell has lived in L.A. for 15 years. She's the mother of two and a sometime yoga instructor who has dabbled in theater — acting and writing — on and off sinc…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00am on May 30, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pulitzer Finalist About the Iraq War by Steven Leigh Morris

Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they …

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 5:30pm on May 23, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama by Steven Leigh Morris

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production …

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 4:34pm on May 16, 2013☆⚑

Five Dance Events to See in L.A. This Week, Including Speed-Dating Choreographers and Composers by Ann Haskins

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance events include speed dating…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00am on May 16, 2013☆⚑

Prince Gomolvilas: The Only Gay, Thai, Science-Fiction Playwright by Ada Tseng

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. While researching The Brothers Paranormal, his latest comedy-horror…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 9:00am on May 15, 2013☆⚑

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise Makes 'em Laugh at Paley Center Premiere by Lisa Horowitz

Mel Brooks doesn't think he's an American master. That's someone like Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway, says the creator of the funniest farting scene in the history of film. But Susan Lacy…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 8:47pm on May 10, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story by Steven Leigh Morris

L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter …

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 6:00pm on May 9, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Docudrama About Slavery by Steven Leigh Morris

Lovell Estell III found Chromolume Theatre's production of Do Lord Remember Me stirring, and made it this week's Pick. Neal Weaver also found a multimedia Brecht on Brecht at Atwater Village…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 8:30pm on May 2, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland by Steven Leigh Morris

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble a…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 9:00am on April 26, 2013☆⚑

Mercedes Floresislas Endured Domestic Abuse and Went to UCLA While Homeless and Raising a Deaf Son. Her Story Is Now a Trilingual Play by Jenny Lower

Mercedes Floresislas may not know how to cook, but her new play Tamales de Puerco, running through April 28, otherwise cuts awfully close to home. The unusual trilingual production at Boyle …

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 5:10pm on April 22, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week by Steven Leigh Morris

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 1:45pm on April 18, 2013☆⚑

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Celebrate 10 Years Together By Returning to Where They Met: the Stage by Bill Raden

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the ans…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 7:14pm on April 15, 2013☆⚑

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Alvin Ailey Downtown by Ann Haskins

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance events include a locavore dan…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 3:26pm on April 11, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity by Steven Leigh Morris

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwi…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 2:18pm on April 11, 2013☆⚑

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From a Boy Band Terrorist to Frances McDormand Doing Performance Art by Catherine Wagley

See also: *Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a panel of architects and a perfor…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00am on April 10, 2013☆⚑

L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Winners by Zachary Pincus-roth

​L.A. Weekly's 34th annual theater awards, honoring the best work on L.A.'s small stages from 2012, took place tonight at the Avalon in Hollywood.Sacred Fools' Buster Keaton…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 3:59am on April 9, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Marilyn Monroe Kissing a Girl and Liking It by Steven Leigh Morris

Marilyn Monroe liked the ladies -- so proposes this week's Pick of the Week, Marilyn -- My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Will Manus' new play in MACHA/Globe Theatre in West Hollywood. See below f…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:30am on April 4, 2013☆⚑

Why Be a Playwright in L.A.? 5 Writers Share their Reasons by La Weekly

The pay stinks. Hollywood is more glamorous (and pays more). And Broadway is 3,000 miles away. So why be a playwright in L.A.? That's the question posed by our theater issue this year, whic…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 9:04pm on April 3, 2013☆⚑

Wicked Writer Winnie Holzman and Her Husband Paul Dooley Wrote and Star in a Play Together. It Only Took Them 28 Years by Whitney Friedlander

Television and theater writer Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life, Wicked) and her husband, character actor Paul Dooley (i.e. your go-to when casting the consoling dad or grandfather), seem to…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 3:39pm on March 29, 2013☆⚑

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland by Steven Leigh Morris

Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also …

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 6:04pm on March 28, 2013☆⚑

A New Play About...LAUSD School Lunch? by Bill Raden

Cornerstone Theatre Company does not believe in art for art's sake. Nor, for that matter, do they believe in merely putting on plays. At least not in the marbled-restroom, big-ticket-opulent…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 6:48pm on March 27, 2013☆⚑

L.A.'s Premiere LGBT Stage Celebrates 30th Anniversary, As Its New Artistic Directors Discuss the Future of Queer Theater by Bill Raden

Only in Los Angeles could you expect to find a star-studded gala in a shopping center parking structure. But that's because only Burbank would think of squeezing its premiere legitimate stag…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 2:25pm on March 26, 2013☆⚑

Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett by Anthony D'Alessandro

"By any chance, are there a couple of boxes out there on stage?" Such was comedienne Emily Maya Mills's query to a fellow performer in the dressing room at the Upright Citizens Brigade The…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00pm on March 22, 2013☆⚑