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Ten years ago, while living in New York, I was in Gene Frankel's acting class. He loaned me his 1979 edition of Jean Cocteau's The Eagle Has Two Heads and The Human Voice and suggested I …
The old man and old woman, who have lived together seemingly forever, prepare for the onslaught of visitors they have invited to hear the old man's ultimate discovery. Empty chairs appear an…
The Six Points Fellowship program for emerging Jewish artists is presently accepting applications. The Fellowship supports nine Los Angeles artists (ages 22-38) working in visual arts, mus…
Stars like Dana Delany and Tony Shaloub turned up in Westwood last night to the world premiere of Jane Anderson's play The Escort at the Geffen Playhouse.  READ MORE
For three weeks in 1966, Allan Miller left New York to teach actors in Ireland. The invitation came from a former student, Deirdre O'Connell, who had opened the Focus Theatre in …
In response to the devastating events in Japan, producers Daisy Eagan and James Mooney, in association with the Catalina Jazz Club, have announced Cabaret Cares: Songs for Japan, a one-nig…
Tis the theatrical season for high-end call girls. First a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica in Dangerous Beauty and now Manhattan-based Charlotte in the premiere of Jane Anders…
I'm on an adventure with the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. And with my friend Beth Ricketson. Â READ MORE
Phylicia Rashad's Ebony Rep revival of Lorraine Hansberry's masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun should be seen by every LA theater lover -- is there anyone out there who might arrange a transfer…
The 2011 Festival of New American Musicals, a five-month musical theater festival, is being held April 1 through August 28, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein and Lin…
Acclaimed playwright Murray Mednick, founder of the historic Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, doesn't always get around to producing his plays right away. Altogether, he has scripted eight …
An old familiar feeling is in the air. In theaters across the country, nostalgia for the big band days of the 1930s and '40s seems to be cropping up. The Colony Theatre's revival of The Al…
Los Angeles County, through its Arts Commission, has given grants totaling $250,000 to arts organizations throughout Los Angeles County to support paid internships for college underg…
In 1981, years before his roles in Top Gun, Bull Durham and The Shawshank Redemption, actor Tim Robbins and fellow actors from UCLA founded an experimental theater group in Los Ange…
She asked for a handshake because, she explained, "I have never shaken the hand of a black person before." Actor Jackson McQueen extended his hand to the elderly Caucasian woman from Houghto…
The newest offering of Theatre West, which has produced plays since 1962, is a world premiere entitled Goodbye, Louie . . . Hello! by the late Allan Manings. The play is creating some bitter…
Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company explain the evolution of their puppetry and the creation of Joey, the life-like star of the National Theatre's accla…
The project that was to become the play Devil's Advocate began with a telephone call from the legendary American director Robert Altman. Bob's aim was to introduce me to the Academy Award…
Perhaps Chalk Repertory Theatre should be re-named Chalk Site-Specific Theatre. The company doesn't perform productions in repertory, but it's becoming one of LA theater's leading advocates …
In response to the devastating events in Japan, producers Patty Onagan and Ronn Goswick have announced Rebuild Japan: A Benefit Concert at the Pasadena Playhouse, a one-night-only event o…
Since I was a young boy, I would press crayons against paper and create imaginary worlds and characters. I was born with the mysterious gift of being able to draw. In fact, when I was in sec…
Roger Bean, creator of the long-running off-Broadway hit The Marvelous Wonderettes, directs the world premiere of his latest creation, Summer of Love, a brand new musical that promises…
REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) has announced preliminary program highlights for RADAR L.A., an international festival of contemporary theater running June 14-20. It is being pr…
The devastating and untimely death of Lanford Wilson earlier this month turned the Mark Taper Forum's highly anticipated revival of Burn This into a de facto memorial for this extraordina…
Born in California 55 years ago, Marc Masterson is finally about to return to the state as South Coast Repertory's new artistic director. He discusses some of the differences between Sout…
