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Going to Mitzi Gaynor's home is like being invited over for a play date with your soon-to-be new best friend and her gal pals. Not only do Nellie Forbush and Ethel Merman make cameos but L…
Connie covers the Hollywood Bowl's 90th season launch, talks with Coachella Valley Repertory's Artistic Director Ron Celona about upcoming plans, plus comic Paul Rodriguez explains why his n…
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles held its 21st Annual Simply Shakespeare Fundraiser on Monday, May 9 at UCLA's Royce Hall. Among those reading from The Merry Wives of Windsor were Chris…
My love affair with Horton Foote began in 1990. My husband knew of it and supported my choice to go after Mr. Foote. Well, not Mr. Foote himself but his plays. I didn't know anything about H…
"All theater is a character telling a story---as if he were sitting around a campfire." Playwright Wendy Graf is sitting around a table at a cafe in Burbank as she quotes iconic director G…
I've been hoping to do a show here at MainStreet ever since an actor friend told me working here was the best theatrical experience she'd ever had. I thought, "Really? With a children's th…
INSIDER kudos to Pasadena Playhouse and CTG productions nominated for Tony Awards nominations.  The Troubies fly with Aristophanes' The Birds at Getty Villa; and a  look back at the…
Every actor has a list of roles he'd like to act and every director has a list of plays he'd like to direct. After reading Hugh Leonard's The Au Pair Man about 20 years ago, I put it on my …
When Lee Melville smiles, his eyes beat him to it. The Editor-in-Chief of this publication, LA STAGE Times, smiles frequently as he reminisces over his 50-year career in theater: actor, s…
Elizabeth Swain could fall prey to a whimsical journalistic labeling or libeling about how disaffected, displeased and distrustful she currently is, and nothing could be more distanced from …
Twenty-one arts journalists from 13 states have been chosen to participate as fellows in USC Annenberg's seventh National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Theater an…
The premiere of Lynn Manning's The Unrequited (Between Two Worlds) marks the 15th anniversary of the extraordinary Watts Village Theater Company, and Cornerstone Theater, which was the pa…
Mother's Day is fast-approaching and the timing could not be more appropriate for the world premiere of performing artist John Fleck's latest solo piece Mad Women which he has created, wri…
On April 16 The Global Theatre Project produced its 2nd annual participation in Stratford-Upon-Avon's Shakespeare Birthday celebration with the creation of this year's The "Double…
The nominees for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, set to air live from the Beacon Theatre in New York on CBS on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 8 p.m. ET, w…
The mating habits of scientists are under intense scrutiny by playwrights these days, judging from the premieres of Pursued by Happiness at the Road Theatre, House of the Rising Son at Atwat…
Twelve Angry (Men) has been a show we have been discussing as a group since our inception in 2003. Eight years later, we are happy to finally bring it to life on our beautiful Pico Playhou…
When I was about 10 years old, my father, for some reason known solely to him, took me to see a community theatre production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I fell asleep in …
By 1972, Czechoslovakia-born writer/director Pavel Cerny, who held a Master's degree from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, had established himself as a noted director of film and …
he Good Boy is a project I have been writing and developing for several years. It began as a series of journal entries which then grew and were developed into a series of short stories abo…
With the completion at the end of April of Phase One of construction on its new theater in Pasadena, A Noise Within (ANW), Los Angeles' critically acclaimed classical repertory theater com…
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it," said American author Henry David Thoreau more than 150 years ago. Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure the Value …
Check out Steve Yockey's Heavier Than, Huhgh Leonard's  The Au Pair Man, some Spring Dickens, and much more in this week's LA Stage Insider!  READ MORE
A Noise Within has scheduled two final dates in its free "Hard Hat Sundays" series on May 1 and June 12, 2011, 4 to 5 pm. Guests for these last dates will observe A Noise Within Residen…
When Lonsesome Traveler opened April 13, it marked the end of a five-year expedition for James O'Neil, co-founder along with his wife Karyl Lynn Burns, of the Rubicon Theatre Company in Vent…
