1,854 stories from LA STAGE Times
Everywhere I go, and almost everyone I talk to, has been affected by breast cancer in some way. And, as is true in so many circumstances, I find that Native oral traditions are often a bet…
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission seeks County-based youth and adult community and professional choirs, music ensembles, folk and traditional artists and dance companies to perform…
I love going for walks by myself. I love the feeling of being out in the open, that vulnerability balanced by an empowering sense of independence. Ironically, and unfortunately, I live in a …
For almost a decade, I'd been living in Tujunga, a quirky town known for aging bikers and crack addicts. I barely knew any of my neighbors. Then the Station Fire of 2009 began burning th…
Nothing about Charles Dillingham's decision to leave Center Theatre Group after 20 years was planned, nor is it retirement. "I don't use the 'R' word," says Dillingham, dressed in blue je…
Each year the Lab chooses a theme around which all its sessions are based and a play around which many group workshops are organized. For 2011 the theme is "Exploring the Bigger Picture"Â …
Having just returned from a series of custom gown fittings for her upcoming concert, Diamonds Are Forever: The Songs of Dame Shirley Bassey, singer/actress Jennifer Leigh Warren is actua…
After a word enters the page, the words keep growing, much like the mud that grew on the surface of the water in an old Cherokee creation story. Then the play stands on a little clump …
Theatre Communications Group is in town. The nonprofit theater movement's network and advocacy organization is celebrating its 50th anniversary by holding its 21st national conference …
Cuba is a place that is very close to us. It is closer to Florida than Angelenos are to Santa Barbara. During the first half of the 20th century, American and Cuban culture shared a …
I was sitting in my home on the former military base of Adak, depressed after my mother had passed on, when my colleague Shelley Niro, an artist and filmmaker, emailed me the Alaska Nati…
Returning to the role he originated 10 years ago, stage and screen actor (and TV director) Tate Donovan is about to appear in a radio theater production of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, fo…
Why does the LA Times over-cover the Tonys while barely covering the theater awards ceremonies in LA? What part of LA theater is really under-represented on the Times panel discussion on Tue…
A celebration of African American theater will take place nationwide on June 20, as 17 black theater companies across the country light their collective lights for 1Voice, 1Play, 1Day, an …
All this week LA Stage Times will present coverage of Directors Lab West 2011 with reports from DLW Production Coordinator Doug Oliphant. Each year the Lab chooses a theme around which al…
In her professional life, Holly Stanton is an OB nurse in rural Alaska. She had always felt the pull and magic of writing and creating, but she had never seen a fully staged play until…
John Farmanesh-Bocca of Not Man Apart discusses the process that created Titus Redux, now in a second draft at LATC as part of RADAR L.A., again featuring Jack Stehlin as Titus, following th…
Ever since I was a little boy, I've struggled with who I am. I think that I was meant to be a woman. As a kid, I would play with dolls and dress up in my mother's closet when my parents we…
When I graduated UCLA as an actor and playwright, poetry and stand up were just things I dabbled in. Then I discovered Da Poetry Lounge on Fairfax. For the next two years, I not only perfo…
Engine28 is a pop-up newsroom that is mostly about experimentation, journalists engaged in a shoulder-to-shoulder editing experience, trying out media and voices and approaches in the name o…
LA Poverty Department, based in Skid Row Los Angeles, is a permeable performance ensemble. In other words, there's a core group of 12-20 people who have worked together on projects o…
I always remember my parents' generation being able to answer where they were when JFK was shot. After September 11, my generation's question became, "Where were you and what were you doin…
The stars turned out for opening night of the Los Angeles premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Lett's Superior Donuts at the Geffen Playhouseh including Dana Delany, Arye Gross, Marin Hi…
Her email address begins with "nifttt", which she says stands for "nothing is funnier than the truth."Â (It could also stand for "nifty," which she most certainly is.)Â For actor/dir…
INSIDER spotlights  Hollywood Fringe one-handers and offers some alternative Festival fare.  CTG goes on a cyberspace search for new Fanny Brice;  helmer Amelia Mulkey offers her ta…
