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Once a month on Sunday afternoons, I meet with eight exceptional playwrights who congregate for a shared love of playwriting. Many of them are also accomplished TV and film writers, but they…
The Author at the Kirk Douglas raised big questions about how theater artists and audience deal with inflammatory subject matter such as porn and suicide. Meanwhile, Wrinkles offers a ver…
Each week or so I'm updated on happenings in the LA theater scene by way of the latest postings on LA Stage Times. In the past I've always found the news to be informative and even gratifyin…
Connie Chats with 33 Variations actors Samantha Mathis and Don Amendolia at the opening night party, takes a listen to Linda Eder's new album and reveals a workshop of a new version of Pal J…
You might call director Elina de Santos an Arthur Miller groupie -- not to trivialize, but to celebrate, her lifelong devotion to the works of the man she considers America's greatest playwr…
Shakespeare's classic comedy Twelfth Night opens this weekend at STAGEStheatre with a few new twists. The original tale follows Viola, a shipwrecked young maiden disguised as a man, dodging …
From Rent to Jamaica Farewell and Gigi Perreau's A Night With the President, it's all here in this week's LA STAGE Insider. READ MORE
As I am sure is the case with many of you reading this blog, I have to maintain a day job to support the family and supply my theater habit. I am fortunate that working as a Directo…
Simon Levy directs Tennessee Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand at the Fountain Theatre in its West Coast premiere opening Feb. 26. He says, "This play, coming as late as it does in the Wi…
In Southern California the Phantom Projects Theatre Group has a long history of touring schools with important issue-driven productions. Over the past decade Phantom has developed a…
"Once upon a time there was a piece of wood."  That is a modest start for the classic tale of the world's most famous fabricating puppet, first serialized in a magazine from 1880-18…
Director Lisa Peterson describes her latest show, in Mother Words, as a "compilation or quilt play" made up of 15 short pieces by 15 different writers, all describing what it means to be a m…
LA-based composers Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay (Showtime's Weeds) tackle two distinct worlds in Gruesome Playground Injuries, the new play by Rajiv Joseph currently running at NYC's Se…
Actor LEN LESSER, 88, best known as Uncle Leo in the hit television show Seinfeld but also veteran of 500+ film/TV appearances and stage roles during his generation-spanning career…
Madonna or whore? Three big musicals examine this stereotype of young women: Dangerous Beauty, Gigi and Rock of Ages, with mixed results. READ MORE
On a gorgeous winter day in California, flames from a gas fireplace provide warmth and a relaxing ambience inside the renovated Craftsman-style bungalow of playwright/actor Nick Salamone,Â�…
LA Stage INSIDER highlights upcoming S.T.A.G.E. benefit, Â the stage premiere of Midnight Express, the debut of new Third Street Theatre and the history of movie star Sal Mineo as stage ac…
The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that applications are now being acce…
Marc Masterson, artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville since 2000, will join South Coast Repertory as its artistic director. His Louisville theater, like SCR, specializes in new p…
The Hollywood Fringe Festival will announce a new headquarters venue and discuss Fringe guidlines at a town hall on March 2. READ MORE
This production of Jump/Cut will be the West Coast premiere. Jump/Cut was first produced in Washington in 2003. Think about that. This play is eight years old and has never been produced …
Celebrities traveled to Renaissance Italy for the opening night of Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse including stars of the 1998 movie, Jacqueline Bisset and Rufus Sewell, plus dir…
So that you and I are on the same footing, I will tell you everything I know about The Author, a play opening at the Kirk Douglas on Feb.17 as part of Center Theatre Group's DouglasPlus seri…
Gigi, the movie, swept the Oscars in 1959 including Best Picture. Â The script was adapted in 1973 for the stage, but what you may see this month by the Reprise Theatre Comapny at UCLA's F…
On February 25 The Global Theatre Project will bring seven actors including Ed Harris, James Cromwell, Lily Knight, Sharon Lawrence, Eric Pierpoint, John Sloan and Tessa Thompson to Los Ange…
