"Play Dead," "We're Gonna Die," Endgame," "Exit the King" -- these plays may inspire thanksgiving that we're still alive. "The Normal Heart" and "The Homosexuals" depict changes in gay cultu…
As Matthew Bourne's "Sleeping Beauty" opens in LA, Connie chats with Bourne, dancer Hannah Vassallo, and audience members Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Sherman and Debbie Allen.
"In the Heights" is back in Boyle Heights, at Casa 0101 for the second time in a year. Director Rigo Tejeda and costumer Abel Alvarado hope for audiences from the barrio and from the West Si…
Arthur Hanket has balanced theatrical and non-theatrical jobs and family for a long time. Now he's in "Light Up the Sky" at Theatre 40 alongside his wife Stephanie Erb.
Actor Dan Gerrity, who won LA awards in the '80s and '90s, dies in Santa Fe...LATW records "Reasons to be Happy"...Rubicon's four holiday attractions...Sandy Yu...Don Eitner.
String Theory, the performance ensemble that scored as the house band at the Ovation awards ceremony, makes music and dance and "sonic sculptures."
Actress Ri Versteegh charts the frontier between herself and her character in Don Nigro's "Seascape With Sharks and Dancer" at Santa Monica Little Theater.
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Todd Robbins, once a young magic fan from Long Beach, brings his "Play Dead" to the Geffen Playhouse. It's inspired by old-fashioned spook shows and seances.
Mighty moms are on stage in the Colony's "Miracle on South Division Street," Theatre Banshee's "By the Bog of Cats," Production Company's "Look Homeward, Angel" and "The Nisei Widows Club."
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld looks at the transformation of a New York park in "Handball," produced at Urban Theatre Movement at LA's Studio/Stage.
Filipinos' devotion to the TV series Dallas and other American artifacts is the topic of Boni Alvarez's "Dallas Non-Stop," a Playwrights' Arena production in Atwater.
Karen Anzoategui shuttled between LA and Buenos Aires while growing up, seeking to understand her identity as a queer Latina. Futbol helped. Her story, " ¡Ser!," is at LATC.
Ticket prices for Midler's Mengers show break a Geffen Playhouse record...David Hyde Pierce will direct Taper's and Durang's "Vanya..."..."Newsies" en route to LA..."Stoneface" rescheduled...
David ("Proof") Auburn speaks about his "The Columnist" and its main character Joseph Alsop, as LA Theatre Works prepares for a radio theater recording of the play, starring John Vickery as …
Gordon Goodman is tackling the role of John Barrymore in the almost-solo "Barrymore," by William Luce, for Good People Theater Company's second production.
Daniel Rover Singer of Reduced Shakespeare Company fame has imagined a scenario in which Lewis Carroll photographs Charles Dickens. "A Perfect Likeness" is at Fremont Centre Theatre.
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The "Nisei Widows Club" comedies from a decade ago are back with a third installment -- "How Tomi Got Her Groove Back," at East West Players, directed by Amy Hill.
Pasadena Playhouse specializes in anger and fury. "Gidion's Knot" and "Rabbit Hole" explore the aftermath of sons' deaths. Theaters serve the communities of Skid Row -- and Rancho Cucamonga.
Can theater survive in the Hollywood neighborhood? That was the topic at Stayin' Live, a gathering last Saturday at the Montalban Theatre.
Brian Shnipper conceived and developed "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays." Now he's staging Tom Dudzick's "Miracle on South Division Street" at Colony Theatre.
Mayor Eric Garcetti's dismissal of Olga Garay-English from her job as head of LA's Cultural Affairs Dept. angers some of LA's theatrical leaders...KCET embellishea "Invisible Cities"...
La Mirada Theatre's "best season" Ovation Award is the subject for remarks by artistic director Brian Kite, McCoy Rigby's Cathy Rigby and Ovation-winning actress Beth Malone.
"Elvis's Toenail" is about how Irish society handled an unplanned pregnancy in the '60s. Playwright Fionnuala Kenny was inspired by the women she observed as a child.