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No one can claim Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a comedy, so it is not the fare classically trained actor Stacy Keach would lean toward for relief. "I love comedy," Keach sa…
Within a city block of each other, The Sonneteer and The Young Man From Atlanta examine early '50s homophobia, among other subjects, but in very different cultures and using very different s…
I worked in comedy clubs for over 20 years, as an openly gay comedian. Five years ago I was booked at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago; it is what we call an "A" room in the comedy biz. It …
Someone needed to collect data on the LA theater scene -- specifically, data that would reflect how frequently women's plays were produced (or, we later decided, "nurtured") in Los Angeles. …
What's a magic mirror to do? Once every century, the mirror is responsible for choosing which "hero's quest" is to become the next classic fairy tale. A perfect handsome prince, Copern…
Of the professionals who have turned Los Angeles small theater into a living laboratory of artistic and even commercial success, few have had the impact of uber-publicist and award-winning p…
We're very fortunate to live in a country where our elected representatives make up words like "refudiate," send bare-chested photos of themselves to young ladies via the Internet, and somet…
Part Cherokee, Seminole and Muskogee Creek on her father's side, Carolyn Dunn is among a growing cadre of Native American playwrights. Her play The Frybread Queen opens Saturday in the…
fter making its debut Off-Broadway in 1995, Horton Foote's The Young Man from Atlanta will finally have its Los Angeles premiere on March 11. Presented by the Production Company and staged b…
Roy Cruz fusses with a silk scarf on a dressmaker mannequin. "Is something funny?" he asks, and the audience bursts out laughing. Channeling Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, he begi…
Picasso, Audrey Hepburn, The Troubies, Madeline, and so much more in this week's LA Stage Insider! Â READ MORE
Fascinated by the life and career of celebrated pianist Clara Schumann and her relationships with her then-less-celebrated husband, composer Robert Schumann, and their protégé, Johannes Br…
You know you have made it when people create cover bands and tribute shows in your honor. After all, imitation is the highest form of flattery. But it is an even higher accolade when a piece…
A Noise Within's Comedy of Errors is a perfect fit in the burlesque hall dreamed up by director Michael Michetti, but why is Actors Co-op's King Lear set in 1850s California? Plus comments o…
Students from Moscow Art Theater School (GITES) arrived a CalArts on February 17 to create a collaborative production scheduled to premiere in Moscow in June. The first workshop performance …
Daniel Henning, founding artistic director of the Blank Theatre Company, tells how it began, "When I did a play at the age of four, that was sort of it. I was bit hard. It was Stone Soup,…
"The best thing you can say to get us to do something is to say we can't or it's not possible." That's how artistic director Jon Cohn describes The Mutineer Theatre Company. "And we're usual…
I'm sure you've heard the adage, "you must suffer for your art." I've always considered myself an optimist with a pretty good life, albeit a bit of a worrier. So the worrisome voice in my he…
There is something about the white-face makeup and red nose of a clown that never fails to elicit strong emotions with audiences. For the American public, the image stirs up all kinds of ass…
A 55 degree afternoon in Studio City is balmy for Chicago transplant George Wendt. He steps out of his black four-door in a black T-shirt and black shorts. He never appears chilly as he r…
Cirque du Sloeil, Skirball does Death of A Salesman, Dangerous Beauty, and much more in this week's LA Stage Insider.  READ MORE
Annie Potts is an actress film and television audiences have come to trust. From Janine Melnitz (Ghostbusters) to Mary Jo Shively (Designing Women) to Mary Elizabeth "M.E." Sims (Any Day Now…
The Directors Lab West Steering Committee has announced the dates for its 12th annual event. The 2011 Lab will take place June 11 - 18Â at the Pasadena Playhouse. Â READ MORE
The results of a study by the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI) working with LA STAGE Alliance revealed that only one in five plays on LA-area stages will be written, or co-…
It's been almost a year since the first gathering of artists who'd heard about something called the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative. The kick-off event was March 7, 2010, and the u…
