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Glenn Davis and Necar Zadegan are making their Broadway debuts with Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Rajiv Joseph's tense and metaphorical drama about American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, a…
The Global Theatre Project (The GTP) is looking for theatre artists and residents of all ages, ethnic and religious backgrounds, and sexual orientation to participate in the "Double Double…
It's about women, it's about politics, it's about family and most important, it's about entertainment as writer Colette Freedman and director Elise Robertson team up once more with their new…
You might think living in an all-pink house would give you a toothache.  But, au contraire, Jackie Goldberg, the "Pink Lady," has made her all-pink home a delightful nest of airy lig…
Original Cast 2, the 27th annual S.T.A.G.E. show will be held on Saturday, April 2, at the Luckman Auditorium on the Cal State LA campus. The Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event w…
The famed bluebird of happiness traces its more modern roots to the 1697 publication of L'Oiseau Bleu by Madame d'Aulnoy, who adapted the premise from ancient legends. The Road Theatre Compa…
AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) deeply mourns the death of actress and HIV/AIDS advocate Elizabeth Taylor today. Taylor launched a second career as an AIDS activist in 1985 when she organize…
To quote the character of Sheila Bryant from A Chorus Line, "Everybody in the whole goddamned country wants to be a star!" READ MORE
It's a week before the March 25 opening of Ebony Repertory Theater's production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun,and Phylicia Rashad -- who's making her Los Angeles directorial de…
With careers whose sum almost equals a century of experience, Leon Russom and Barry Ford believe getting older does not mean less opportunity. In fact, both actors believe age and experience…
For 18 years, the LA Women's Theatre Festival has showcased female solo artists and aided them in developing a new work, a career, as well as a support network. It's hard to work in LA theat…
Southern Comforts, The Frybread Queen and The Weir lead to reflections on when to show, not tell, and when to tell, not show. Two young men's scripts, Bonded and The Next Fairy Tale, add…
It's a musical Nick Blaemire [pronounced BLAY-mire] began writing in 2003 as a freshman at the University of Michigan where he was studying musical theater performance. "It's about the…
Speaking to Jeff Murray and his wife Nicolette Chaffey, co-founders of Theatre/Theater, is like conversing with a single voice that flows from baritone to alto and back again. Â READ MORE
With a catalogue of cinematic work that has garnered three Oscars (21 nominations), a BAFTA and a Cesar Award, it's safe to say film producer Jonathan Sanger has a discerning eye for a quali…
I am on a quest to exhume/resurrect my lineage. I am black and gay and I have something to say. But where, oh where is there a place for those like me in this sometimes-crazy and chaotic wor…
Just inside the [Inside] the Ford theater, director Ron Klier and production stage manager and assistant director Tommy Dunn are sitting back in their chairs watching actors Johnny Clark and…
Check out this week's theatre news in March 17th's LA Stage Insider! Â READ MORE
Stage and screen veteran Michael Learned pairs with her equally seasoned pal Granville Van Dusen as an unlikely couple in a new production of Kathleen Clark's play Southern Comforts, direc…
There is a lot going on in the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center (NHPAC) these days. Rehearsals are happening in one room, wardrobe fittings in another while lighting and sound design is …
The Global Theatre Project brought Los Angeles into the Belarus Free Theatre movement with a live event at LATC and then the filming of several theater organizations and artists lending stat…
Suicide isn't funny. But when I was hired to direct the West Coast premiere of Edward Anthony's Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath for Rogue Machine Theatre, I was indeed asked to generate a producti…
Brooke Shields is dropping f-bombs. It's hard to tell if they're in the script or if she just flubbed a line; it's probably both. Alongside some other feisty femmes, she's rehearsing�…
Before Geronimo died he was permitted to write his memoirs. As I studied them I started to feel related to him. I felt his stories as if they were mine, his feelings as if they were mine. I …
What I love most about our Streetlamp Studio theater company is that it has become a gateway for honest and relational interaction within the neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles. All o…
