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"Now this is what's so wonderful about the theater: Â Carmen Argenziano is playing a math genius instead of a hood or a cop." Â TV and film vet admits luxuriating in the opportunity to i…
"As long as i can remember I was always into music," says Janet Rich, one of the producers of the musical Rock of Ages, opening Feb. 15 at the Pantages Theatre. Â "It was always something …
Sab Shimono, a veteran actor with East West Players for more than three decades, is adding a new wrinkle to his repertoire. Â He stars in East/West's premier of Wrinkles, by Paul Kikuchi, …
Betty Garrett, star of stage, screen and television, died Saturday morning of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center following a brief illness. She was surrounded by her family at the time of…
Which theater company attracts the most young adults? Why can't Clybourne Park coincide with A Raisin in the Sun? Would 33 Variations fit the Taper better than the Ahmanson? READ MORE
"Every day I walk in here I feel so lucky!" Annie Hendy, bubbling over, sits in the lobby of the Falcon Theatre in Burbank to talk about her personal odyssey as she presents it in her semi-a…
"The story of Alceste is a love story and that's the thing I keep coming back to," director and actor Darin Dahms says of Alceste, written by B. Walker Sampson and produced by Theatre …
From the Marvelous Wonderettes, to Harold Pinter and Ray Stricklyn, Julio Martinez covers it all in this weeks LASTAGE Insider. READ MORE
The stars came out last night for the opening of Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda at the CTG/Ahmanson Theatre. Like Cher, Colin Ferrell, Anjelica Huston, Peter Fonda and Ro…
Producer TJ Dawson has been busy. He developed 3-D Theatricals production company with his family, launched its first season last year at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, learned his first seas…
With countless radio stations dedicated to the music of the '50s, '60s and '70s, the recent release of the entire Beatles catalogue on iTunes, and even covers of oldies like "River Deep…
Jessica Kubzansky admits that being one of the founding artistic directors at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena is the "hardest job" she's ever had in her life. READ MORE
I have long been a fan of playwright Richard Greenberg's work and had heard of and knew of The Violet Hour from its roots at South Coast Repertory. I had yet to read or see the play when app…
Center Theatre Group (CTG) is now accepting submissions for the 2011 Richard E. Sherwood Award, an annual $10,000 fund to support Los Angeles artists. The award is presented each year at t…
Californians May Contribute to Arts Statewide via Annual State Tax Refunds. READ MORE
Dangerous Beauty Director Sheryl Kaller has a favorite mantra she likes to impart after making adjustments or giving notes: That is a change and change is good. The phrase could easily be a …
Marsha Mason is back at LA Theatre Works' radio theater series at the Skirball Center for Becky Shaw, after last year's turn in ex-husband Neil Simon's California Suite. READ…
You are so long dead; it's hard to believe you're alive in me and now in my plays. If you'd prefer to rest, I apologize. Todd Susman, ma'am: Class of '65; you threw me out of "Honors Englis…
The Princess Grace Foundation USA announces availability of the 2011 Dance (Scholarships and Fellowships) and Choreography Fellowships in all forms dance, theater and film. One unique aspe…
After 25 years in the acting/directing business in LA, I was presented with the opportunity to purchase the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, at a price even I could afford. So I sacrific…
The new Atwater Village Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA offer two views of sex-besotted characters in Mlle. God and Crack Whore Galore--Live. Why can't Sister's audiences ask tougher …
Legendary costume designer Theoni Aldredge died on Jan. 21. The next day, Soyon An began technical rehearsals for the premiere of the musical Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhou…
Westside news, more premiers, and a new play about Obama's mother in this edition of LASTAGEInsider. READ MORE
Last week, as part of a gathering at Arena Stage in Washington DC, I was able
to finally spark a conversation that I have been wanting to have for
more than a year now. READ MORE
Playwright Ron Hutchinson wrote Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedic retelling of how the final film script came into being. It had its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2004 an…
