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"What if you asked your best friends to help you do something terrible?"  According to John Pollono, that question was the germ of his savage and short one-act  Small Engine Repair cur…
Adam Flemming is a bit of a theater polymath. Although he has lately gained recognition as a projection designer, his long CV records training and an early career as a scenic designer. Talki…
Tom Jacobson's two plays at Atwater Village, The House of the Rising Son and The Chinese Massacre (Annotated), are very different, but their joint presentation adds up to a sum even greater …
"First time I set eyes on her was at MOMA"New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1930. You couldn't miss her though the exhibit was a retrospective of the work of her husband Diego Rivera. She l…
All politics are personal. None more so perhaps than the fight over gay marriage, currently playing itself out in California courts and on stage in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage P…
From the star studded cast of The Merry Wives of Windsor to Ovation winner Anna Khaja's newest work, 24th Street Theatre's La Razon Blindada, it's all here in this week's LA Stage Insider!! …
For a playwright who has enjoyed some 70 productions of his 51 or 52 plays " he's lost count " Tom Jacobson can take a moment to smile as two of his works go up over the same weekend…
Known for big musicals, the partnership of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment brings another favorite to its audiences with a new production of Little Sh…
The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage director Dale Franzen is about to enter her fourth year leading the 499-seat main theater and the more intimate 99-seat companion, The Edye Second Space,…
Chatting and sipping her cup of tea at NoHo's Pit Fire Café south of El Portal Theatre, Gina Hecht exudes the proper edgy East Coast aura to portray Edna Edison, the distaff half opposite…
Two small productions are providing evidence that provocative plays set in LA aren't all that difficult for the larger theaters to find. The LA-oriented plays are The Temperamentals at t…
Finding the humanity within seemingly distasteful, even repellent characters is often a theme of paramount importance when we do shows at Coeurage. Maybe it's the fact we inadvertently choos…
When I ï¬rst told several of my New York City Broadway pals I'd be spending the spring in Los Angeles doing a play, they looked at me like I had three heads. "Why would you want to do th…
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright was initially presented on Broadway in December 1962 by Oliver Smith and Roger L. Stevens at the Booth Theater. It ran for 33 performances. Almost 50 years have …
"We have a live lamb on stage and she's not housebroken---or, more accurately, stage-broken---so our first run-through was a bit redolent," director Scott Paulin says. He's talking about t…
You undoubtedly know Stephen Collins, the actor. He's been working in TV and film since the 1970s, though he's probably best known as the Rev. Eric Camden, a role he played on the long-runni…
The multi-ethnic culture of New York City in the 1980s is not what immediately comes to mind when thinking of a fairy tale setting. Yet in Ben Snyder's new play Shoe Story, having its Los …
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be about to see Wallowa: The Vanishing of Maude LeRay at the Son of Semele Ensemble. I've always enjoyed watching this company of actors work but I neve…
Ask established actors when they got their first break, and many may say it came when they were children. They devised a skit and performed in the living room for their family, anxious for t…
The stars came out in force to the opening night of God of Carnage at the Ahmanson Theatre including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Will Ferrell, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Martin Sheen, G…
No script? No blocking? No problem. This approach might confuse and even frighten most LA directors, but for Impro Theatre directors Michele Spears, Dan O'Connor and Brian Lohmann, this is t…
Craggy-faced character actor Philip Baker Hall, facing his 80th birthday with his gruff but lovable image intact, has taken on the role of an elderly parent facing his mortality -- and facin…
In the introduction of his one-act play collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Tennessee Williams comments on his former theater company, The Mummers, as a group driven "by some kind of beauti…
F. Murray Abraham has about 30 minutes to talk before he has to go to rehearsal for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which is set to open April 14 on the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Â…
With Ionesco's The Chairs, A Noise Within has produced a fitting valedictory for its final regular season in Glendale. But why hasn't the Times theater critic written more often about LA's l…
