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I knew the title before I even wrote the script. Eisegesis. I toyed with it in my mouth, giving it different inflections, refracting the syllables into different wavelengths, getting comfo…
My journey into Solitude, the Latino Theater Company's revival for RADAR L.A., began in 1998 when I read Octavio Paz's obituary in the LA Times. A Nobel Prize recipient in literature, a…
No one could accuse Ann Closs-Farley of being beige. The multiple award-winning costume designer best known for her eye-popping creations in Ken Roht's 99¢ Only holiday extravaganzas to…
I never thought of myself as 'fringey' until I signed up for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. First of all I'm over 50, so I thought I left the fringe behind about the time I signed my secon…
The 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival was calling me: it was time to do another play. This wouldn't be my first dance with the Fringe. Last year I co-wrote, directed, and produced a show ca…
Myth and Infrastructure combines projections and the shadowed silhouette of my own body behind the screen to create fantastical, surreal world of oceans, cities, and magical domestic space…
Honoring the Gods and telling their stories is the purpose of traditional Balinese shadow theater. While studying Wayang Kulit and serving as an assistant to a dalang/ shadow master, I w…
011 marks the second year for The Hollywood Fringe Festival, and co-founder and Festival Director Ben Hill credits the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland as his principal inspiration. Â…
My journey began like most of us by being drafted, but a very smart recruiter convinced me that the Air Force had a special program for actors. "If you enlist in the Air Force you will be …
This year at the Hollywood Fringe Fest, I am going to be premiering my one man show Life in the Middle Ages. Even as I go through the machinations of staging the production, the question I…
In my second year as artistic director of Moving Arts, I was challenged to keep an ensemble company artistically motivated due to the loss of our theater home. I began looking for ways…
Over the past decade, Geffen Playhouse artistic director Randall Arney hasn't tried to create an LA version of his Chicago alma mater, Steppenwolf Theatre, at the Geffen. But his latest Geff…
The aftermath of the Cambodian genocide is treated in the Colony's Year Zero, set among Cambodian Americans in Long Beach, and Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, set in Cambodia with Amer…
The RADAR L.A. festival, June 14-18, will bring theater from 15 companies -- international as well as local -- to three venues, in conjunction with the Theatre Communications Group conferenc…
For the last 10 years I have searched for the appropriate context in which to mount a theatrical version of Gertrude Stein's last work, Brewsie and Willie. This novel in dialogue form …
Me. New Years Eve. We're having a party and I'm hiding in the kitchen, depressed by the happy people invading my house.  I get like that when I haven't worked for a while. Brai…
Evangeline Ordaz, an attorney as well as a playwright, addresses hot-button issues in her plays such as Bordering on Love, a play that addresses both immigration and same-sex marriage within…
Thunder Bay is a small, icy cold, snowy city on the northern shores of Lake Superior in Canada and it's the place I was born. My parents immigrated to this frozen tundra from the balmy w…
The Colony opens its 37th season June 4 with the West Coast premiere of Michael Golamco's Year Zero, centering around Cambodian American brother and sister Vuthy and Ra Vichea's efforts to …
Hal Linden joins "On Golden Pond" at Colony while Hollywood Fringe spills over with legit fare. Â La Jolla premieres "Sleeping Beauty Wakes," and a look back at venerable Theatre 40. Â …
Kristin Towers-Rowles is an actress, vocalist, wife and mother of three girls. She began her training at an early age with quite an impressive mentor, her grandmother, legendary star of st…
Ellen Geer, turning 70, is eyeing a younger generation for possible successors to her role as artistic director of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum. Meanwhile, the company's upcoming season …
"By the time Tom and I had finished building the theater, we had $25 left in the bank." Â Maria Gobetti is talking about the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank that she and husband Tom Orme…
When Larry Eisenberg and Chris Winfield were named Co-Artistic Directors of Group Rep, they were attracted to a true American classic, The Poor of New York. The decision was a bit of a ris…
The Geffen Playhouse and mobile diner The Buttermilk Truck are partnering to bring new meaning to the phrase "play with your food."Â In celebration of Tracy Letts' new play Superior Do…
