Cabaret Con-Sensual and Issues of Duality in the Quest for Queer Visibility by Angie Hoover

By Angie Hoover The performance room at Three Clubs is, in essence, a side closet in a straight bar. But it is not the closet of shame and doubt that imprisoned LGBTQIA individuals during T…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:33am on August 8, 2018☆⚑

Hershey Felder Brings the Maestro to Life in 'Beethoven' by Brian Marks

By Brian Marks Hershey Felder is the bearer of a particularly extravagant multi-hyphenate: playwright-composer-actor-pianist. (He's also the scenic designer on his latest show, Beethoven, a…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:27am on August 7, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC) announces two "Intersection" events during its annual New Works Festival (Aug 5-12), including an opening nigh…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:37pm on August 2, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Center Theatre Group has completed casting for the pre-Broadway run of ain't too proud"The Life and Times of the Temptations, opening at the Ahmanso…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 1:25pm on July 26, 2018☆⚑

AIDS and Los Angeles Theatre by Julio Martinez

by Julio Martinez The AIDS virus was not readily apparent to the Los Angele theater community in the early 1980s. On June 5, 1981, UCLA-based immunologist Dr. Michael Gottlieb published a r…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 8:54pm on July 23, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The real-life Hollywood romance of Ronald and Nancy Reagan has been turned into the musical, In A Booth At Chasen's, with music and lyrics by two…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 6:42pm on July 19, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Ovation Award-winning Rogue Machine will be leaving the Met Theatre at the end of September to take up residency at Electric Lodge, located at 1416 …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 5:17pm on July 12, 2018☆⚑

Stage Raw Announces its 2018 Theater Awards Nominees by @ This Stage Staff

[Press Release] The 2018 Stage Raw Theater Awards celebrate excellence on the Los Angeles stages in venues of 99-seats or under. This fourth annual edition includes productions that opened b…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:42pm on July 11, 2018☆⚑

Chappaquidick Redux: Peter Lefcourt and Terry Hanauer tell Mary Joe Kopechne's Story by Brian Marks

by Brian Marks Late on the night of July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy was driving through Chappaquiddick Island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. In the car with the 37-year-old senator was…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 9:06pm on July 10, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Road Theatre Company presents its Ninth Annual Summer Playwrights Festival""8 Days! 30+ Plays!""with new works by Wendy MacLeod, Craig Pospisil,…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 9:19pm on July 5, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Executive Producer Michael Sterling and Co-Executive Producer Barbara Van Orden have announced that auditions for LA's Next Great Stage Star 2018, p…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:37pm on June 28, 2018☆⚑

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival Celebrates 25 Years of Female Voices by Lara J. Altunian

by Lara J. Altunian The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) was founded in 1993 by Adilah Barnes and Miriam Reed, who met at a California Arts Council Touring Roster Conference in …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 1:36pm on June 23, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The fourth annual Stage Raw Theater Awards will take place on Aug 20, 2018, at Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown LA. In prior years, shows were…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:18pm on June 21, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] 2018 Stage Raw Theater Awards Announced by @ This Stage Staff

The fourth annual Stage Raw Theater Awards - celebrating the best work in L.A.'s intimate theater scene as determined by StageRaw's jury of critics will take place on Monday nigh…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:18pm on June 21, 2018☆⚑

On the Fringe: Winding Down by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez AWARDS AND CLOSING The 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival Awards Ceremony will be held at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre on June 24. Doors open at 6 pm.; awards begi…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 3:36pm on June 18, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS 5-Star Theatricals (formerly Cabrillo Music Theatre) Board of Directors announced that Patrick Cassidy will assume the responsibilities of Artistic …

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:43pm on June 15, 2018☆⚑

Pizza and Whine, Balls' On, Terra is a Warm Gun, and More at the Fringe by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez THE PLAY'S THE THING Pizza And Whine, written by Raffaela Capp, Virginia Kelly, and Maria Capp, follows four female cousins as they "reignite their love for mus…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 8:59pm on June 12, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

Julio Martinez is taking a vacation in Paris. LA STAGE Insider will return on June 14th.  

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:32pm on June 8, 2018☆⚑

Events and More from the Official Opening Week of the Hollywood Fringe Festival by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Community events scheduled for the 9th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival: Fringe Cabaret, hosted at The Eastside Commons at Thymele Arts (Jun 10, 12…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 11:04am on June 5, 2018☆⚑

[Press Release] Applications Now Open for National Competition for Visual, Literary, Design, and Performing Arts by @ This Stage Staff

Winners Receive Mentorship, Professional Opportunities, and Up to $10K in Monetary Awards Sole Path for U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts Applications Accepted through October 12, 20…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 10:28am on June 5, 2018☆⚑

Hollywood Fringe 2018 Kicks Off by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez THE PLAY'S THE THING Bloodbound, written by L.A.-based Michael Kearns and directed by Mark Bringelson, tracks the lives of "misfit sibling determinedly cementin…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 4:44pm on May 28, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS The Pasadena Playhouse has unveiled its 2018-2019 season, highlighted by four new works, beginning with the West Coast premiere of Native Gardens, t…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 1:04pm on May 25, 2018☆⚑

Queer-Prov & The Art of Inclusion in Improvisation. The Groundlings' 2nd Annual Diversity Festival by Robbie McDonald

by Robbie McDonald When Petey Gibson stood up and spoke during introductions at the beginning of writing lab class at the Groundlings, it felt like a speech. "'My name's Petey. My pronou…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:01pm on May 20, 2018☆⚑

This Week in LA Theatre by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez IN THE NEWS Long Beach Opera celebrates two milestones in its 2018-2019 season"the organization's 40th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of Andreas Mitisek's…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 1:06pm on May 17, 2018☆⚑

Inside LA Stage History: The Ivar Theatre and the Decline of LA's Mid-Size Theatres by Julio Martinez

By Julio Martinez Yeghishe Harout, an Armenian-born immigrant and actor (proclaimed "the Armenian Barrymore"), performed with the Antranik Dramatic Company, touring through Europe and the U…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 7:21pm on May 11, 2018☆⚑