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Sipping on a drink at Café MUSE in Hollywood, White looks tres chic in her black slacks, black blouse, gold metallic shoes, gold earrings and necklace, all accented with a black/white strip…
Set in present-day Cambodia, David Wiener's drama Extraordinary Chambers is about an American couple entangled in the tumultuous politics of this impoverished and largely rural Southeast Asi…
Gritty, provocative new works find a home at Elephant Theatre Company, the West Coast's answer to (and recent partner with) Off-Broadway's LAByrinth Theater Company. As Elephant dives into i…
The Westwood-based two-theater Geffen Playhouse's full seven-play 2011-12 schedule will feature three intriguing world premieres. Within intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, Beth Henle…
I never thought the sock puppets that live in my head would ever actually materialize on stage. But they have. And I'm still a bit stunned anyone wants to hear about the sock puppets that …
To many Southern Californians the phrase "Inland Valley" may not be synonymous with "theater." Donna and Frank Minano, founders of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre, beg to differ. READ MORE
Which LA theater company has the highest profile right now on Broadway? Would you believe it's the Pasadena Playhouse " the company that has recently had a lower profile here in LA than jus…
Center Theatre Group announced today that Kirk and Anne Douglas have awarded a $1 million challenge grant to help CTG develop and produce new work for the theater. The new grant follows an…
What's a woman originally from Hungary doing in NoHo directing a play written by a playwright from a small town in Indiana, and inspired to start a theatre company because of it? It's a qu…
For the sixth consecutive year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has funded the Residency Grant Program of Arts for All, LA County's nationally recognized collaboration to re…
"It's a marriage of a different kind," says Doug Haverty as his blue eyes sparkle and he leans intently across the table. Adryan Russ nods and smiles agreeing, "I mean we just like each ot…
You don't get many opportunities to direct a post apocalyptic dark comedy. So when one of my fellow company members brought this play to my attention late last year, I was extremely intrig…
Hard Hat Sunday continues, a new Managing Director of CTG, Cinderella at Sierra Madre, live theater and the 1920's Great Depression, the news is all here in this week's LA Stage Insider! Â�…
Roger Guenveur Smith can hold a grudge. And, if you press him about it, he'll hold his ground, dig in deeper, look you straight in the eye and tell you in no uncertain terms just why the c…
One of theater's triple threats " actor, singer, musician Michael Paternostro " sums up approaching his musical direction of Reprise's Kiss Me, Kate like this: "You're working for …
East West Players has kept its thematic promise of "Shake It Up" this season and celebrates with the grand finale of an original concept musical combining the talents of youthful urban art…
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, and LA Stage Alliance today announced the 2011 TCG National Conference Honorary Committee of distinguished artist…
Karen Sommers steps up to plate in her role as "creator/director" of the new play South of Delancey. Set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the piece is based on remnant stories from ree…
The voice of Sofia Alvarez is brimming with so much enthusiasm, it almost squeaks. The young playwright is on the brink of graduating from The Juilliard School in New York where she's been…
David Hunt Stafford loves theater. Talk to him approximately 15 minutes and you know it. Talk to him another five or so, and he'll tell you about Theatre 40 where he serves as Artistic and…
"Is it like the movie with Tom Cruise?" That's the response I usually get when asked about the show I am doing, Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July at The Production Company. And the answer is, "…
"The idea for Julius Caesar being an all-female production itself came about because one of our members [Jenn Scuderi, playing Marc Antony] was speaking to a student of hers about how the …
Theatre West's Moose on the Loose, to Odalys' Nanin's Lavendar Love, Â The Los Angeles Master Chorale's 47th season, the Gumm Sister, and so much more is in this week's edition of LA Stage…
Working with the one and only Barbara Bain and DB Sweeney, it is a dream? The first day we met with Ms. Bain about this festival, I was so excited I left one hour early to make sure I arriv…
Les Hanson, founding artistic director of West Coast Ensemble, is espousing the traditions of those wandering minstrels of yore with his next production. He opens Gypsy by Arthur Laurents,…
